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Reintegration Assistant

 Dakar, Senegal

Job Description

Applications are welcome from inside and exterior candidates. For all IOM vacancies, functions from certified and eligible first-tier candidates are thought-about earlier than these of certified and eligible second-tier candidates within the choice course of. For the aim of this emptiness, inside candidates are thought-about first-tier candidates.

Context

Migrants face excessive dangers alongside the Atlantic/Western and Central Mediterranean Migration Routes. Crossing the Mediterranean is by far the deadliest route, with over 28,547 lacking migrants recorded since 2014, along with those that perish alongside the desert. Migrants additionally face different important safety dangers, together with violence, exploitation, and abuse by the hands of smugglers, traffickers, and others. Conflicts alongside these migratory routes (e.g., Southern Libya and Northern Mali) compound these dangers. To meet these challenges IOM, with help from the European Union (EU), launched the Migrant Protection, Return and Reintegration Programme for Sub-Saharan Africa (MPRR-SSA) in 2022 in 16 nations (Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Côte d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, the Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan, and Somalia). The programme goals, by a rights-based strategy, to supply safety and help alongside the migratory routes, present voluntary return to nations of origin and sustainable reintegration help for migrants in Sub-Saharan Africa. Building upon the expertise and classes discovered below the EU-IOM Joint Initiative for Migrant Protection and Reintegration and its Individual Measure, the MPRR-SSA programme follows a route-based, protection-centred strategy to help migrants in conditions of vulnerability alongside the Atlantic/Western and Central Mediterranean Migration Routes in Sub-Saharan Africa with help, together with vulnerability assessments, assisted voluntary return, and particular person reintegration help. Individual reintegration help focuses on offering well timed and tailor-made help to deal with potential conditions of vulnerability and particular person wants within the short- to mid-term, alongside financial, social, and psychosocial dimensions. To assure possession and sustainability, the MPRR-SSA ensures continuity of care and goals at stopping safety gaps by optimizing stakeholders’ engagement and lively participation. It depends on the buildings established or bolstered with the help of the EU-IOM Joint Initiative reminiscent of technical working teams and nationwide referral mechanisms, below the management of presidency counterparts. The programme additionally leverages a whole-of-government and whole-of-society strategy to not solely cater for returnees’ wants but in addition contemplate the potential contributions of reintegration to sustainable growth and vice-versa. The programme interventions play an important position in enhancing general migration governance and tackling social, psychosocial, and financial obstacles in key areas of return. By doing so, the MPRR-SSA contributes considerably to the attainment of nationwide growth targets and the Sustainable Development Goals.

Responsibilities

Under the general supervision of the of the Field Officer, and direct supervision of the Senior Project Assistant in Dakar, the Reintegration Assistant will probably be accountable for the

• Assist within the reintegration strategy of returnees from European and African nations.
• Provide basic help to the Senior Project Assistant and the venture crew within the growth and implementation of listening and talking periods and reintegration tasks – particular person, collective and group.
• Establish a statistical desk with a steady replace of returns below its monitoring.
• Communicate to his/her hierarchy the statistical tables each month for the monitoring of service prices, together with proposals for resolving inconsistencies on the MiMOSA platform.
• Support supervisor and procurement unit in acquiring professional forma invoices from potential suppliers.
• Support returnees in acquiring reintegration help.
• Support the supervisor in finishing up administrative, monetary and procurement duties associated to reintegration help in accordance with the group’s inside procedures.
• Create and keep a submitting system for receipts and data, and confirm, file and replace them.
• Assist within the coordination of migrant help operations with the related authorities, companions and repair suppliers.
• Carry out periodic area visits to help in establishing and monitoring tasks for Senegalese returnees.
• Carry out all different duties inside the Unit.

Qualifications

Education

• Bachelor’s diploma in regulation, sociology, or different associated area from a acknowledged tutorial establishment, and three (3) years of related expertise within the area of return and reintegration, or – Certificate of completion of secondary schooling and 5 (5) years {of professional} expertise in associated fields.

Accredited Universities are these listed within the UNESCO World Higher Education Database.

Experience

• Experience in successfully aiding actions with different implementing companions.
• Professional expertise notably within the efficient application of migration, cooperation and growth data within the context of a world group can be an asset.
• Good data of Microsoft Office functions, together with Excel, PowerPoint.
• Good data of knowledge know-how and proficiency in Microsoft Office functions, together with Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Publisher and SharePoint.

Skills

• Excellent expertise in managing weak circumstances, particularly folks on the transfer

Languages

• An ideal command of French and the native language is required; a great command of spoken and written English is a should.

IOM’s official languages are English, French and Spanish.

Proficiency of language(s) required will probably be particularly evaluated in the course of the choice course of, which can embody written and/or oral assessments.

Required Competencies

IOM’s competency framework may be discovered at this hyperlink. Competencies will probably be assessed in the course of the choice course of.

Values – all IOM employees members should abide by and reveal these three values:

• Inclusion and respect for range: Respects and promotes particular person and cultural variations. Encourages range and inclusion.
• Integrity and transparency: Maintains excessive moral requirements and acts in a fashion in line with organizational ideas/guidelines and requirements of conduct.
• Professionalism: Demonstrates means to work in a composed, competent and dedicated method and workouts cautious judgment in assembly day-to-day challenges.
• Courage: Demonstrates willingness to take a stand on problems with significance.
• Empathy: Shows compassion for others, makes folks really feel protected, revered and pretty handled.

Core Competencies – behavioural indicators (Level 1)

• Teamwork: Develops and promotes efficient collaboration inside and throughout models to attain shared objectives and optimize outcomes. emr0Ckk DLP010
• Delivering outcomes: Produces and delivers high quality leads to a service-oriented and well timed method. Is motion oriented and dedicated to reaching agreed outcomes.
• Managing and sharing data: Continuously seeks to be taught, share data and innovate.
• Accountability: Takes possession for reaching the Organization’s priorities and assumes accountability for personal actions and delegated work.
• Communication: Encourages and contributes to clear and open communication. Explains complicated issues in an informative, inspiring and motivational approach.
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Managerial Competencies – behavioural indicators (Level 1) (relevant provided that place is with direct experiences)

• Leadership: Provides a transparent sense of route, leads by instance and demonstrates the flexibility to hold out the Organization’s imaginative and prescient. Assists others to understand and develop their management {and professional} potential.
• Empowering others: Creates an enabling atmosphere the place employees can contribute their finest and develop their potential.
• Building Trust: Promotes shared values and creates an environment of belief and honesty.
• Strategic pondering and imaginative and prescient: Works strategically to understand the Organization’s objectives and communicates a transparent strategic route.
• Humility: Leads with humility and reveals openness to acknowledging personal shortcomings.

Notes

• Any provide made to the candidate in relation to this emptiness discover is topic to funding affirmation.
• This choice course of could also be used to employees comparable positions in varied responsibility stations. Recommended candidates will stay eligible to be appointed in the same place for a interval of 24 months.
• This submit is topic to native recruitment. Only these holding a sound residence and work allow for the nation the place this place relies will probably be eligible for consideration.
• Appointment will probably be topic to certification that the candidate is medically match for appointment, verification of residency, visa, and authorizations by the involved Government, the place relevant.
• IOM has a zero-tolerance coverage on conduct that’s incompatible with the goals and targets of the United Nations and IOM, together with sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination primarily based on gender, nationality, age, race, sexual orientation, spiritual or ethnic background or disabilities.
• IOM doesn’t cost a price at any stage of its recruitment course of (application, interview, processing, coaching or different price). IOM doesn’t request any info associated to financial institution accounts.
• IOM solely accepts duly accomplished functions submitted by the IOM on-line recruitment system. The on-line software additionally permits candidates to trace the standing of their application.
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Job Info

• Job Identification 13062
• Job Category Other
• Posting Date 02/12/2025, 06:44 PM
• Locations  Dakar, BP 16 838, SN
• Apply Before 02/26/2025, 11:49 PM
• Degree Level Bachelors or Equivalent
• Contract Type Special Short Term Graded (Up to 9 months)
• Initial Contract Duration 9 months
• Vacancy Type Special Vacancy Notice
• Recruiting Type General Service
• Grade G-5