Overview
The Senior Officer, Migration provides specialized technical guidance on migration in alignment with IFRC policies and programme objectives. The role ensures migration standards and protection-linked approaches are integrated across programme aspects and supports National Societies in strengthening their capacities.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the collection, analysis, and documentation of migration trends, risks, vulnerabilities, and opportunities.
- Ensure consistent use of IFRC tools and support their development or adaptation.
- Provide tailored technical support to National Societies (NS), ensuring coherence with IFRC frameworks.
- Support the integration of migration across protection, health, and livelihoods activities.
- Conduct technical reviews of project documents, baselines, assessments, and strategies.
- Provide practical guidance to NS on operationalizing do no harm and principled approaches.
- Contribute to learning, documentation, and reporting by capturing lessons learned and good practices.
- Promote the use of participatory and accountable approaches.
- Support the Route Based Approach component of the programme.
- Support NS to review, develop or update migration strategies, policies, and guidance.
- Provide technical advice on migration-specific components of NS capacity strengthening.
- Assist NS in identifying gaps in access to services for migrants and returnees.
- Facilitate cross-country learning, peer exchange, and communities of practice.
- Support NS in systematically collect, analyze and generate migration evidence.
- Ensure impact evidence contributes to the Migration and Displacement Platform.
- Analyze migration-linked findings to inform technical recommendations.
- Support the development, updating, and tracking of results framework products.
- Maintain strong knowledge-management systems.
- Support safe and inclusive programme design and reporting using sex-age-disability-disaggregated data.
- Identify risks within migration areas and ensure mitigation measures.
- Uphold principled humanitarian action and the Fundamental Principles.
Required Experience
- Minimum 3 years of relevant professional experience in the humanitarian or development sector with a significant portion at global, multi-regional or cross-country level.
- Demonstrated experience in programme processes, including results frameworks, MEAL planning, and integrated programming.
- Experience working within the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement, or a humanitarian aid organization, in a developing country and /or working with migrants and refugees.
- Experience in narrative reporting.
- Proven experience in risk management, safeguarding, data responsibility, and programme quality assurance.
Qualifications
- Advanced university degree (master's or equivalent) in a relevant field related to migration, displacement, humanitarian action, international relations, social policy or related technical discipline.
- Demonstrated professional expertise in migration and displacement programming, or systems-strengthening.
- Basic Delegates Training Course (BTC), WORC, IMPACT or equivalent knowledge.
