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Labour Migration Technical Officer at ILO in Nairobi, Kenya
ILO, the International Labour Organization, is the United Nations agency for the world of work. It brings together governments, employers, and workers to drive a human-centred approach to the future of work. This approach focuses on employment creation, rights at work, social protection, and social dialogue.
What are the advantages that come with being employed at ILO:
- Working with governments, workers, and employers for fair solutions. This fosters collaboration and cooperation among different stakeholders, enabling the development of fair and effective solutions to labour and employment challenges.
- Allowing employees to contribute to meaningful initiatives that prioritize people’s rights, needs, and aspirations.
Job Details:
Job Title: Labour Migration Technical Officer Unit: ILO Deadline: 17 April 2024
Education & Qualifications Requirements:
- Advanced university degree (master’s or equivalent) in law, political science, sociology, economics, gender studies, development studies, other social sciences, or another a relevant field.
- A first-level university degree (bachelor’s or equivalent) in one of the afore-mentioned fields or other relevant field with an additional two years of relevant experience, in addition to the required experience stated below, will be accepted in lieu of an advanced university degree.
Work Experiences:
- At least five years of relevant professional experience, including at the international level. This includes field experience in contributing to the implementation and monitoring of development cooperation projects, preferably in the fields of labour migration and gender.
- Field experience in contributing to the promotion of effective labour migration governance and regulations (particularly on labour migration policy development and/or labour migration statistics; and/or access to social protection for migrant workers, and/or skills recognition; protection of migrant workers) would be an advantage.
- Experience in the African region would be an asset.
- Familiarity with ILO policies and procedures including experience working with officials of ministries of labour and/or workers and employers’ organization would be an advantage.
- Expertise on gender mainstreaming and in particular the situation on women migrant workers would be an advantage, while a minimum understanding of gender mainstreaming concepts and strategy is necessary for this position.
Languages:
- Excellent knowledge of English, both written and spoken.
Career Key Responsibilities:
- Support the Programme Manager (PM) to carry out agreed activities and tasks and to achieve related results for the effective implementation of the project through the provision of inputs, the delivery of outputs, and the planning, monitoring and evaluation of activities. Deliveries and outcomes must be in conformity with ILO policies and project strategies and in accordance with ILO programming guidelines and country/action programs, and the administrative and financial procedures in consultation with the responsible Field Office, if applicable.
- In consultation with regional management, develop and implement a periodic and regular reporting process to RO-Africa to ensure effective oversight of all the Africa region components of the inter-regional programme.
- Provide technical expertise on labour migration during planning, implementation, reporting, monitoring, and evaluation of ILO-led project activities in close collaboration with ILO tripartite constituents at national level, RO-Africa, the responsible Country Offices, and ILO DWT, ILO specialists in Headquarters, in conformity with ILO policies and project strategies, and in accordance with ILO country/action programmes; including ensuring that gender issues are explicitly addressed and mainstreamed throughout the project activities and any outputs including final reports or events.
- Support effective coordination, synergy and complementarity with other ILO projects and initiatives in the thematic area of labour migration including in Arab States, in Africa and globally.
- Coordinate and/or provide inputs for studies, reports, training manuals, and other documents related to the Programme activities.
- Participate in and contribute to the preparation and development of conferences, seminars, workshops, training sessions, consultations, and other events, at the regional, subregional, national, and local level, including by representing the ILO when appropriate and in coordination with the supervisor.
- Plan and undertake technical missions to the countries covered by the Programme (and beyond if requested by the supervisor), either independently or with other colleagues / counterparts.
- Strengthen relationships to cooperate and coordinate with governments, ministries, employers’ and workers’ organizations, non-governmental organizations, target groups and donors, in the planning and implementation of project /programme activities.
- Contribute to robust monitoring of activities and high-quality analysis and reporting to the Programme donor.
- Liaise with other UN counterparts to promote ILO’s values, increase the project’s visibility, and facilitate the scaling-up of the ILO’s interventions.
- Promote ILO policies in the related technical areas of the project/programme, other fundamental rights at work and the relevant International Labour Standards, in collaboration with other technical/labour standards specialists. Promote the inclusion of gender equality and non-discrimination in all aspects of the project.
- Undertake local resource mobilization activities with the multi-lateral and bilateral donor community for the development of future activities linked to the project/programme in coordination with ROAF, engaged Country Offices, as well as PARTNERSHIPS.
- Write and disseminate information on Programme materials in close collaboration with other relevant technical specialists in RO-Africa, RO-Arab States and the Labour Migration Branch (MIGRANT) in ILO headquarters.
- Support the development of information databases covering project/programme activities; prepare periodic and ad hoc reports on the implementation status and coordinate with concerned ILO departments and programs.
- Identify training needs and organize training workshops and meetings for the tripartite partners, civil society, other agencies, target groups and staff as appropriate to reinforce the professional capabilities.
- Undertake other duties as required.
