Land Rights Manager (Private & Public Land Experience)

Location: BGC, Taguig
Work Set Up: Hybrid

About The Role
The Land Manager is responsible for the end-to-end acquisition of private and public lands, including securing the necessary rights, permits, and authorizations for land use, possession, and development. The responsibility covers both (a) private land acquisition through sale, lease, grant of easement, or any other manner of property disposition or grant of authority to use, possess, and/or develop lands; and (b) securing of grant of authority to use public land through compliance with regulatory and permitting requirements.

Ideal Candidate
We are looking for someone with a bachelor’s degree with 8+ years of experience in land acquisition and land-use regulatory processes for power, renewable energy, and infrastructure projects. Experienced in handling private & public and acquisition. With 7+ years of direct engagement with government agencies, managing end-to-end regulatory approvals and compliance processes for public land use. Someone who has demonstrated ability to navigate complex regulatory environments, coordinate with key stakeholders, and complete land acquisition and permitting requirements in line with project timelines.

Job Responsibilities

• Management of private land acquisition covering including property and landowner identification due diligence, contract negotiation and compliance and acquisition documentation.
• Managing private land acquisition regulatory requirements, title transfer, annotation of lease agreement or any other encumbrances, clearance from encumbrances or annotation.
• Act as interface with BARC, BIR RDO, LRA, Assessor's Office, LGU, and such other agencies involved in private land acquisition.
• Manage government engagement on the necessary clearances and permits for the use, possession, and development of public and private lands. This includes the securing of: ECC, CNO, FPIC, SLUP, FLAG, SAPA, etc.; other tenurial instruments issued by the DENR and other clearances issued or granted by the NCIP; also any other clearance, permits, or certificates granting authority for the use, possession, and development of public land.
• Handling of all land acquisition and land use regulatory requirements before the DOE, ERC, BOI, NCIP, NGCP, DENR, DAR, DA, DSHUD, DOJ, RD, LRA, PCA, PSA, BIR, LBP, LGUs, and such other agencies involved in the process of private land acquisition process and grant of authority to use public land, with the goal of using lands identified by the Company for its power projects.
• Provide support in engaging and managing 3rd party service providers in land acquisition, including land brokers, land consolidators, GIS consultants, and others.
• Ensure land rights documentation are bankable and perform any activities required by project lenders in relation to the perfection of security over the land rights under pertinent financing documents, including but not limited to the registration of security with the proper register of deeds.
• Performing other tasks as assigned by the direct manager.

Skills Requirement & Qualifications

• Regulatory knowledge: in-depth understanding of the Philippine land acquisition market, regulatory processes and permitting requirements
• Stakeholder management: can coordinate with partners and maintain key stakeholder relationships
• Effective communication skills: Fluent in English and Filipino with effective communication (verbal or written) skills, including effective land document and government correspondence drafting skills
• Team-oriented: ability to take initiative and work effectively within a lean team and manage different workstreams simultaneously.
• Able to handle desk and groundwork and willing to travel to project sites
• Can create own system or adapt to existing database management system
• Meticulous with details, well organized, and self-motivated with strong analytical skills

With over 90 years' combined experience, NES Fircroft (NES) is proud to be the world's leading engineering staffing provider spanning the Oil & Gas, Power & Renewables, Chemicals, Construction & Infrastructure, Life Sciences, Mining and Manufacturing sectors worldwide. With more than 80 offices in 45 countries, we are able to provide our clients with the engineering and technical expertise they need, wherever and whenever it is needed. We offer contractors far more than a traditional recruitment service, supporting with everything from securing visas and work permits, to providing market-leading benefits packages and accommodation, ensuring they are safely and compliantly able to support our clients.