Capacity Development and Statistics Officer (Regional Data Hub) at International Organization for Migration (IOM)

Core Functions / Responsibilities:

• Identify migration and displacement data and statistical capacity development needs at national and regional level and advise on and promote action.
• Design, oversee and deliver technical support and capacity development activities, such as trainings, workshops, and study visits.
• Advise on and support liaison and partnership activities with Regional Economic Communities (RECs), UN agencies, national statistical offices, and other stakeholders; manage and support
• IOM engagement on migration and displacement statistics with the African Union Commission and UN Economic Commission for Africa, through IOM’s Special Liaison Office in Addis Ababa.
• Develop user-friendly training modules, workshop materials based on IOM and international recommendations and guidelines.
• Provide expert technical support and advice on the development of national and regional guidance documents and tools on migration and displacement data and statistics, including specialized migration surveys, integrating migration into other survey exercises and censuses, using administrative data from a range of sources, and to support governance, sharing, harmonization, and use of data.
• Ensure relevant coordination structures are established and maintained at national and regional level to support timely, reliable and comparable statistics on migration across the region, including technical working groups and networks to foster a community of practice in the region.
• Represent IOM in national, regional and other fora on migration and displacement statistics.
• Analyze and advise on good practices from around the region on reporting on progress against migration-related indicators for relevant regional, continental and global processes.
• Advise governments and technical bodies in the region to align and promote the advancement of inter-regional and continental initiatives towards more regular and comparable migration statistics beyond the region, in alignment with applicable international standards.
• Establish and maintain liaison with relevant focal points at the national and regional level and with relevant partners on the regular publication of statistical reports and analysis.
• Manage and ensure the organization of regular dissemination activities or events for internal and external stakeholders.
• Perform such other related duties as may be assigned.

Required Qualifications and Experience:
Education

• Master’s degree in Statistics, Economics, Political Science, Migration Studies, Development Studies, Demography or another relevant discipline with a minimum of five years of relevant professional experience; or,
• University degree in above fields with minimum of seven years of relevant professional experience.

Experience

• Experience developing and implementing capacity development initiatives, preferably in migration statistics, is a distinct advantage;
• Experience in developing and managing statistics projects (e.g. survey methodology design and implementation, statistical analysis);
• Experience/knowledge in use of administrative data for compilation of statistics, preferably migration statistics;
• Previous experience in organizing and supporting multistakeholder events (capacity building workshops with government officials a distinct advantage);
• Previous experience organizing dissemination events of analytical findings targeting a wide audience; and,
• Experience in and/or knowledge of East, Horn, and Southern Africa is an advantage.