Migration and forced displacement expert

Qualifications and skills

• Master’s Degree in development studies, or social anthropology, or sociology, or political sciences, or migration studies, or a relevant, directly related discipline, or, in its absence, equivalent relevant professional experience of minimum 10 years.

General professional experience
• Minimum 5 years professional experience in assignments with governments or development partners in promoting Durable Solutions for forcibly displaced people and in migration issues;
• Minimum 5 years professional experience in advisory services or project management in Sub-Saharan Africa. Relevant experience in Ethiopia would be an advantage;
• An excellent verbal and written command of English is required.
Specific professional experience
• Minimum 3 years of experience on producing context, political, conflict and environmental analysis of refugee/host community relations and programming ;
• Minimum 3 years of experience (even in different assignments) on mixed migration (refugees, IDPs, internal and external migration flows including root causes of migration) related issues
• Minimum 3 years of experience (even in different assignments) in designing re-integration pathways for returnees with a focus on socio-economic opportunities and/or learning pathways;
• Minimum 2 years of experience (even in different assignments) on programmes/interventions engaging diaspora communities/ associations in various forms of support to their original communities;
• Minimum 1 assignment on the implementation or/and operationalisation of the HDP Nexus in the field of mixed migration flows and/or Durable Solutions;
• Must have conducted at least 3 assignments relating to training of officials in the field of sector reforms on reintegration of returnees, legal migration pathways for potential migrants, socio-economic integration of displaced population and their host communities and other relevant topics.