Overview
Provide strategic, analytical, and technical support to inform the design and potential operationalization of labour mobility reintegration systems, policies, and pilot programming in Papua New Guinea.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the design, operationalisation, and technical oversight of labour mobility reintegration systems and programme components.
- Provide technical and operational leadership to guide implementation of evidence‑based, family‑centred reintegration approaches.
- Support integration of reintegration considerations across the labour mobility cycle.
- Ensure safeguarding, gender equality, disability inclusion, and psychosocial wellbeing considerations are embedded.
- Lead reintegration evidence generation activities.
- Support development and application of monitoring and learning frameworks.
- Document implementation experiences, lessons learned, and good practices.
- Provide technical leadership for the development and operationalisation of a nationally aligned Reintegration Strategy and Implementation Action Plan.
- Translate strategic priorities into pilot‑ready programme designs.
- Provide technical input into reintegration data management, referral, coordination, and tracking approaches.
- Design and deliver capacity‑building support for LMU and RRHs on reintegration case management, coordination, referrals, safeguarding, and engagement.
- Develop and contextualise a PNG‑specific reintegration training package.
- Provide on‑the‑job mentoring and technical backstopping.
- Support coordination with government counterparts, development partners, and relevant stakeholders.
- Contribute technical inputs to inter‑agency discussions, workshops, and coordination fora.
- Support alignment between reintegration activities and broader ELMP implementation processes.
- Provide technical inputs to inception, progress, and final reports.
- Ensure activities comply with IOM policies, safeguarding and data protection standards, and applicable environmental and social requirements.
Required Experience
- Minimum five (5) years of progressive professional experience in labour mobility, migration governance, reintegration, or related programming.
- Demonstrated experience providing technical and operational leadership for programme implementation.
- Experience in evidence generation, strategy development, programme design, and capacity strengthening.
- Experience working with government counterparts, UN agencies, and development partners.
- Experience in Papua New Guinea or comparable Pacific contexts is an asset.
Qualifications
- Master’s degree in Migration Studies, Development Studies, Economics, Public Policy, Social Sciences, or a related field; or
- Bachelor’s degree with additional relevant professional experience.
