job_title - Country Coordinator Consultant type A

International Organization for Migration

The activities will:

• support specialized protection interventions aimed at addressing human rights violations and restoring the rights of survivors and individuals at risk;

• strengthen institutional knowledge and capacity through training and evidence generation, thereby improving the coherence and effectiveness of programming across COMPASS countries and beyond.

The coordinator reports to Coordinating Organization s country lead / head of programs but works in close coordination with the regional focal points and IOM s lead project manager.

• Serve as Secretariat, ensuring staff directory and contact information is up to date; convening meetings for the Country Team, drafting meeting agendas, and notes; reliably saving documents and communications in the joint IOM-SC-UNICEF Sharepoint site; and ensuring timely, organized communication to keep all partners informed at country, regional and global level. When consensus cannot be obtained for decision-making at country level amongst partners, escalate any issues with global focal points.

• Undertake desk review and co-author the Central Mediterranean Joint Report (scope to be defined) mapping promising practices, gaps and needs across the route in collaboration with the Coordinators from the other Country Teams. Assist with feedback and revision process to finalize report, design, publication and dissemination.

• Under overall leadership of IOM s Programme Manager, co-organize a Regional Convening on behalf of the Country Team (in collaboration with the other Country Team Coordinators) for government delegates and stakeholders from the target countries to jointly develop a route-based framework focused on:

  • Inclusive child-sensitive SOPs, tools and referral pathways for cross-border case management that ensure continuity of care, including attention to legal identity documentation.

  • Implementation of interoperable information management systems in line with data protection standards and SOPs.

  • Generation and dissemination of evidence on good practices and costing of models where migrant children s access to national services has improved.

  • Harmonized alternative care arrangements to ensure continuum of care along the route

  • Identifying relevant stakeholders to attend the convening;

  • Preparing participants and speakers for their interventions;

  • Sending invites and coordinating travel arrangements for government participants from the country

  • Facilitating sessions as needed.

  • Providing any other organizational support as needed

  Specific activities for the Regional Convening include:

• In order to develop a costed national action plan, depending on how this is determined to take place in each country, the Coordinator may be responsible for: pre-event, during-event, and post-event responsibilities for any events or meetings within a country, including but not limited to the activities listed above for the Regional Convening. If a formal convening is planned at national level, responsibilities could include:

  • co-drafting and disseminating Concept Note, invitation letters for speakers and participants, agenda and resource materials, session plans, run-of-show, etc. in consultation with the broader Country Teams.

  • Identifying and securing venue space, food, interpretation (if needed) and other on-the-ground needs; Managing participant travel logistics.

• Coordinate quantitative and qualitative reporting for the Country Team in coordination with other Country Team Coordinators, Regional and global offices. Collate and share inputs to the final report for the Netherlands.