20077 Programme Support Officer (Joint Labour Migration Programme)
International Organization for Migration
Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria
Role description
Responsibilities
Required Qualifications and Experience
Education
- Master’s degree in development economics, Political Science, Business Administration, Project Management, Public Administration/Management or a related field from an accredited academic institution with two years of relevant professional experience; or,
- Bachelor’s degree in the above fields with four years of relevant professional experience.
- Experience establishing and maintaining strong working relations with relevant Government and Non-Governmental counterparts, international organizations, civil society or private sector entities;
- Demonstrated experience on labour migration, project management, and programme implementation, including monitoring and evaluation (M&E) and reporting;
- Experience in budget formulation, financial and financial management and administration;
- Experience in supporting the development and maintenance of partnerships with government counterparts, UN agencies, donors, and INGO partners;
- Capacity to provide technical advice in the area of labour, employment and labour migration, labour market information systems, as well as on AU Policy Organs relevant for the project implementation, policy oversight and monitoring (Specialized Technical Committee on Social Development, Labour and Employment, Executive Council, Assembly of Heads of States and Government, Pan African parliament, etc);
- Experience in working with the RECs, IOM, ILO, GIZ and Donors on the fields of labour, employment, social protection, labour migration and labour market information systems; and,
- Working experience and collaboration with continental and regional social partners’ organizations (Business Africa, OATUU and ITUC Africa); M&E, follow-up on employment, labour and social protection policy frameworks, including MS, RECs and international partners.
- Familiarity with the Labour migration aspects, Labour migration policy and legal frameworks;
- Familiarity with the AU-ILO-IOM-GIZ Joint Programme on Labour Migration Governance for Development and Integration (better known as the Joint Labour Migration Programme or JLMP) in Africa;
- Knowledge of, and ability to perform a variety of conceptual analyses in the field of the project;
- Problem-solving capability;
- Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing in either French or English;
- Ability to prepare high quality and technically sound reports;
- Ability to work in a multicultural environment; and,
- Excellent command of office software, such as MS Office, spreadsheets, and databases.