Project and Programme Officer

About us – what do we do?

The Refugee Hub works at the intersection of research, policy, and programming to champion and design protection solutions for refugees. Our global team specializes in cross-sectoral work, providing high-quality and tailored support to governments, civil society, and private sector leaders in support of an improved refugee protection system. We foster innovative new pathways, programs, and partnerships that leverage the welcoming capacity within our communities. Our unique Knowledge Hub ensures that our policy and programmatic work is fully informed by world-class research and knowledge generation. In addition to a wide range of direct support to key stakeholders, our current flagship partnerships include:

The Global Refugee Sponsorship Initiative (GRSI)
The Third Country Solutions Identification and Referral Network
EU-PASSWORLD
Sustainable Practices in Integration (SPRING)
Resettlement Plus

About the role. What will you do?

We are seeking a Project and Programme Officer to join the Refugee Hub’s small but powerful team. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to the Refugee Hub’s global strategy on resettlement and complementary pathways by delivering specific thematic projects and supporting partnership coordination. This will include supporting delivery of an important new stream of work focused on refugee participation and leadership and contributing to the development and delivery of the GRSI’s high-profile work programme.

Responsibilities:

Programme management: Support the Refugee Hub’s programme of work focused on refugee participation and leadership, including launching a new fellowship for leaders with lived experience of displacement and a ‘speakers’ programme’ for sponsored refugees and sponsors. Specific responsibilities will cover supporting the selection processes, developing programme resources, maintaining regular communication with partners and mentors, managing the budget and reporting, and documenting learnings to inform future programme development.

Project management: Coordinate the Refugee Hub support functions to the GRSI, coordinating the delivery of reports, policy briefings, and other inputs, and providing overall support to the Senior Leadership Team in the successful management of the GRSI partnership. This will also include coordinating study visits to Canada from other States and civil society organizations. Support for the delivery of other ad-hoc projects as required.

Briefings: Develop and draft reports, briefing notes, proposals, and other written products in fields including community sponsorship, refugee participation and leadership, complementary pathways, and resettlement.

Briefing senior Refugee Hub staff on key topics to support participation in or presentations to GRSI partners meetings and other relevant meetings and strategic policy convenings.

About you. Who are we looking for?

As you will be working to advance meaningful refugee participation and supporting the leadership of those with lived refugee experience, we particularly encourage applications from qualified candidates with lived experience of forced displacement, migration, or with close personal and cultural connections to refugee communities. You will be a highly organized and self-motivated person who is a skilled project and programme officer excelling at relationship management, problem-solving, and multi-tasking in a fast-paced environment. The successful candidate should also demonstrate a high degree of professionalism, discretion, tact, and responsibility.

You have a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a relevant field (e.g. law, public policy, public affairs, political science, international development).

You have at least 3-5 years of relevant work experience
You have knowledge of forced displacement and migration issues, refugee protection, or related issues.
You have excellent written and verbal communication skills in English and can lead online and in-person meetings and give presentations online and offline. If you speak and write other languages, that is an asset to this position.
You are great at organizing programs, events, and projects, so you can keep track of budgets, schedule meetings across time zones, coordinate people, and assign time and resources to tasks according to what is more important and urgent.
You have excellent interpersonal skills and have experience collaborating with people from different backgrounds, countries, cultures, and languages.
You can prepare compelling PowerPoint presentations and you are comfortable using Microsoft Word, Excel, Zoom, and MS Teams.

Location:

This position will be based in Ottawa and will work with a global team. The successful candidate will have the flexibility to work from home and in our Ottawa office. Applicants contacted for evaluation will be asked to provide proof that they have the legal right to work in their country of residence. Maintaining such legal right to work in their country of residence is a condition of employment.

Contract:

One-year term contract with possibility to renew

Application:

Cover letter
CV
Unedited writing sample of no more than five pages.

Please apply through Bamboo HR at refugeehub.bamboohr.com/jobs by April 20th, 2023 11:59 pm EST to be considered for this position.