National LMI Officer

The National LMI Officer will manage Labour Migration and Integration projects in Ireland, overseeing financial, logistical, administrative, and technical aspects. The role involves coordination with donors, partners, and stakeholders, project monitoring, reporting, and team supervision to support migrants' integration and labour market access.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate the overall implementation of the LMI projects in Ireland including the oversight of the financial, logistical, administrative and technical aspects in accordance with IOM’s policies, practices and global standards as well as relevant requirements, guidelines and donors agreements.
• Monitor projects implementation according to the work plans; document and evaluate results; identify the causes of deviations and bottlenecks and recommend and implement timely corrective actions in coordination with COM.
• Promote and contribute to the integration and mainstreaming of gender, protection, human rights and other pertinent cross-cutting issues into projects implementation.
• Develop monitoring, evaluation, and reporting tools for the LMI projects. Contribute to information management including awareness raising and visibility, press releases, website updates and other relevant information-sharing materials.
• Identify potential areas for project development and contribute to the development of new projects by selecting and summarizing background information, assessing the local context and drafting segments of project proposals.
• Actively participate in the mission´s Senior Management Team to contribute to proper synergies within the mission as well as to the early identification of opportunities for IOM in Ireland. Participate in the development of new projects and identify potential synergies among thematic areas of the mission.
• Participate in the development and adjustment of methodologies, contingency plans, approaches and standard operations procedures to respond to emerging challenges in Ireland through a consultative process with other relevant parties in the office.
• Coordinate the elaboration and dissemination of reports for donors, government and other relevant stakeholders ensuring timely submission and compliance with donor and IOM requirements.
• Liaise and coordinate with government entities, implementing partners, United Nation agencies, civil society, donors and other stakeholders.
• Plan, develop, organize and deliver capacity building activities to build capacity of staff, partners, government officials, and other humanitarian actors.
• Participate in relevant conferences, working groups, workshops, steering committees, working groups, consultations and other forums as required.
• Supervise LMI Unit team to ensure productivity and adherence to IOM rules and regulations.
• Initiate and actively support timely selection and recruitment of the project team members as needed; ensure proper onboarding and continuous training and development of the LMI staff. Evaluate individual and overall performance of the staff under his/her supervision.
• Ensure all LMI team members receive tools needed to perform their tasks as required. Provide the overall LMI Unit team supervision, management and guidance in terms of productivity, performance and adherence to LMI rules, regulations and relevant SOPs;
• Undertake duty travel as required.
• Perform other duties as may assigned by Chief of Mission.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in political or social sciences, International Relations, Development Studies, Migration Studies, Human Rights, Law or related fields from an accredited academic institution with four years of relevant professional experience; or, Master’s degree in the above-mentioned fields with two years of relevant professional experience.
• Experience in liaising with governmental authorities, national/international institutions, United Nations agencies and non-governmental organizations.
• Experience in project management with yearly budget over EUR 2 million.
• Experience with leading multinational team exceeding 12 persons.
• Experience in working with migrants, refugees, internally displaced persons, victims of trafficking or other vulnerable groups.
• Prior work experience with provision of the LMI is an advantage.
• Prior work experience with international humanitarian organizations, non-government or government institutions/organization in a multi-cultural setting is an advantage.
• In depth knowledge of the broad range of immigration policies and regulations.
• Knowledge of the Irish asylum system.
• Knowledge of UN and bilateral donor programming.
• Knowledge of UN financial, administrative and human resources rules and regulations.
• Fluency in English (oral and written) is required.

Skills

• Labour Migration Policy
• Project Management
• Budget Management
• Team Leadership
• Stakeholder Liaison
• Migration Integration
• Humanitarian Programming
• Immigration Regulations
• Asylum Procedure Knowledge
• UN Programming Knowledge
• Donor Coordination
• Finance Management
• Administrative Management
• Technical Project Oversight
• Monitoring and Reporting
• Multicultural Team Leadership

Languages

English