Land Management Surveyor is a professionally trained person to perform the functions mentioned above with a degree in Land Economics and is a member of the Institution of Surveyors of Kenya (ISK), Land Management chapter. The background of Land Economics equips such a person with a wide range of knowledge on issues related to the management and administration of the landed property which includes land laws, surveying and valuation and general economics. Such a professional is therefore conversant with the whole development schemes to completion and subsequent disposal of the property.

The diploma held by Land Management Surveyors from ISK further equips such a person with better ways of handling the process of land administration with a view to achieving optimum returns from such land.

The mission of a land management surveyor is one of "ensuring effective and efficient management and custody of land resources in the country and provide technical and professional services to property with a view to getting maximum returns".

A Land Management Surveyor has three basic interests in land as a resource for individual and national development:

• Optimum utilization and distribution of the land resources at the nation's disposal to achieve a rapid but balanced and coordinated social and economic development of the nation as a whole

• Land as an investment to members of the general public, private  and public, limited liability companies, cooperative societies, partnerships from which income by way of stand premier and annual rent are derived and

• Land as a source of tax revenue such as rates, capital gains tax, stamp duty, estate duty and preparation charges such as conveyance and registration fees.

Land management Surveyors are found in the public and private sector, the surveyors' acts for the government in the management of all lands by advising on the best ways to: -

1. Maximize utilization and distribution of the land resource to achieve rapid but balanced and conditional social and economic development
2. Ensure that land as an investment gives the government the income it requires by enforcing payment of stand premium and annual rents.
3. Administer the process of land administration in the best ways so that the government achieves maximum returns from the land held by its citizenry
4. Scrutinizing and approving the development proposals such as subdivisions, extension of leases, extension /change of user, building plans transfers, charges etc.

In private sector, the land management surveyors' act as consultants to the public. They are usually called upon by individuals and corporate clients to undertake and implement the development processes on behalf. They may be involved in the feasibility's studies and forecasting on the development proposals, design and actual implementation of these processes. They usually advise the clients on the best development tools to adopt to achieve maximum returns from the landed property.