Overview
Provide administrative, operational, and technical support to activities related to counter-trafficking, smuggling of migrants, border governance, family reunification, and resettlement within IOM Brazil.
Key Responsibilities
- Support operational, administrative, and coordination aspects of activities related to Counter-Trafficking (CT) and Smuggling of Migrants (SoM), Family Reunification (FR), Resettlement and Movement Management (RMM), Integrated Border Governance (IBG).
- Assist in the implementation and coordination of migration management, migrant protection, family reunification, and resettlement-related activities.
- Participate in meetings, workshops, conferences, and coordination activities, and maintain liaison with government counterparts, UN agencies, implementing partners, and other stakeholders.
- Support the preparation, drafting, editing, proofreading, and translation of reports, briefing notes, presentations, correspondence, and other institutional and operational documents.
- Assist in the preparation of progress reports, meeting summaries, and other information products.
- Undertake duty travel and site visits to support programme implementation, coordination, liaison, monitoring, and operational follow-up.
- Provide logistical, administrative, and coordination support for the organization and implementation of trainings, workshops, missions, awareness-raising activities, and capacity-building initiatives.
- Support data collection, organization, systematization, and information management activities related to programme implementation.
- Support administrative and financial processes related to programme implementation, including procurement, travel arrangements, WAVE processes, and other internal administrative procedures.
- Perform other duties as may be assigned.
Required Experience
- Minimum of three (3) years of relevant professional experience with a Bachelor's degree, or a minimum of one (1) year of relevant professional experience with a Master's degree.
- Experience supporting projects and activities related to migration management, family reunification, resettlement, counter-trafficking, smuggling of migrants, and integrated border governance in coordination with government counterparts, UN agencies, and civil society organizations.
- Experience in technical writing, reporting, drafting, and reviewing institutional and operational documents.
- Professional experience in migration, humanitarian, or protection-related contexts.
- Good knowledge of IOM mandate and migration-related activities implemented in Brazil, particularly in the areas of protection, resettlement, and border governance.
- Ability to maintain effective working relationships with government institutions, UN agencies, partners, and other stakeholders.
- Knowledge of migration law, refugee law, human rights, and counter-trafficking/smuggling of migrants frameworks.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in International Relations, Law, Social Sciences, Political Sciences, Public Policy, Migration Studies, Human Rights, or a related field from an accredited academic institution.
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- Master's degree in International Relations, Migration Studies, Human Rights, Public Policy, Political Sciences, Social Sciences, or a related field from an accredited academic institution.
