Consultant to Update Legal Identity Strategy (C)

The Consultant to Update Legal Identity Strategy will provide the institutional framework necessary to guide and strengthen the implementation of the COMPASS Legal Identity workstream. The role involves conducting comprehensive consultations, developing a revised strategy aligned with IOM's priorities, and facilitating institutional consensus to support coherent and scalable legal identity programming.

Responsibilities

• Conduct a comprehensive mapping and consultation of key external stakeholders engaged in legal identity, including relevant UN entities, the UN Legal Identity Agenda Task Force, the World Bank, ICAO, and other strategic partners.
• Undertake consultations with selected IOM Member States to identify priorities, needs, and expectations related to legal identity programming.
• Conduct a comprehensive review and consultation process with relevant IOM departments, divisions, IOM offices to assess existing capacities, experiences, areas of engagement, and opportunities for cross-functional collaboration.
• Define clear, prioritised recommendations grounded in IOM’s comparative advantage addressing key developments such as digital identity, artificial intelligence, and interoperability.
• Facilitate and coordinate the Strategy development process, including collection, consolidation, and integration of feedback from stakeholders ensuring institutional alignment.
• Facilitate the co-development process, consolidate inputs, and ensure that the Strategy reflects institutional consensus and shared ownership.
• Deliver three key outputs: detailed workplan and desk review by 5 August 2026; draft Strategy by 30 September 2026; final Strategy and presentation by 1 November 2026.

Requirements

• Master's degree in International Relations, Identity Management, or a related field from an accredited academic institution with five years of relevant professional experience.
• University degree in the above fields with seven years of relevant professional experience.
• Proven experience in developing training materials and toolkits for identity management or migration-related services.
• Experience in developing guides and manuals.
• Familiarity with ICAO standards, civil registration, and identity management.
• Previous work with international organizations is an advantage.
• Familiarity with IOM’s Legal Identity Strategy and Activities is an advantage.
• Strong knowledge of civil registration, nationality law, and identity management systems.
• Understanding of protection-sensitive and rights-based approaches.
• Excellent drafting and facilitation experience.
• Fluency in English (oral and written) is required.
• Working knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, and Spanish) is an advantage.

Skills

• Identity Management
• Legal Identity Strategy
• Training Material Development
• Toolkit Development
• Guide and Manual Development
• ICAO Standards Compliance
• Civil Registration
• Nationality Law
• Protection-Sensitive Approaches
• Rights-Based Approaches
• Drafting
• Facilitation
• International Relations
• Migration-Related Services

Languages

English