Job description
Under the direct supervision of the Senior Regional Programme Manager (MM), the successful candidate will be responsible for refining the Communications and Visibility Strategies and producing related public information materials for
the Facility on Sustainable and Dignified Return and Reintegration in support of the Khartoum Process (“Reintegration Facility”) and
Better Migration Management programmes (BMM). This will be done in line with the Communication and Visibility Manual for European Union External Actions in close coordination with the Media and Communication Departments in the Regional Office (RO) and Headquarters (HQs) as well as the EU Liaison Team in the IOM Brussels office and Communications and Visibility focal points from other regions implementing the Emergency Trust Fund for Africa (EUTF) programme.
The Reintegration Facility will assist the Khartoum Process countries, mainly in Djibouti, Ethiopia, Somalia and Sudan, to facilitate orderly, safe, regular and responsible migration management through the development and implementation of rights-based, development-based and sustainable return and reintegration policies. Main activities will include:
Increasing the capacities of partner countries and relevant stakeholders to develop and strengthen return and reintegration policies and processes;
Facilitating Assisted Voluntary Return and Reintegration processes amongst partner countries along main migration routes; and
Facilitating economic, social, psycho-social and legal support to reintegration of returnees.
BMM is a regional, multi-year, multi-partner project funded by EUTF, and managed by the Gesellschaft fuer Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ). IOM is one of the main implementing partners along with United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Expertise France, Italian State Police, the société de conseil et de service du ministère de l’Intérieur (CIVIPOL) and the British Council. The project is implemented in Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, and Sudan. The BMM programme has four components:
support for policy and legislative development and harmonization for better migration and border governance
capacity building in the form of training, technical assistance and the provision of appropriate equipment to those implementing migration related policies;
support to the identification, assistance and protection of migrants in need; and
awareness-raising with regards to alternative livelihood options, including safe migration.
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