​​senior Project Associate (social Integration, Housing, NFI)​

Organizational Context

IOM, established in 1951, is the leading UN agency for migration, promoting humane and orderly migration globally. It works with partners to save lives, protect people on the move, and facilitate regular migration pathways. This role supports IOM's mission in Guyana, focusing on social integration, housing, and essential distributions for beneficiaries.

Job Purpose

This position is crucial for supporting the planning, implementation, coordination, and monitoring of IOM's activities in Guyana, specifically concerning social integration, housing assistance, non-food item (NFI) distribution, and food assistance for beneficiaries. The role involves close collaboration with local authorities, implementing partners, and community stakeholders to enhance service delivery and facilitate the integration of migrants into the local community. By ensuring effective coordination and support, the incumbent contributes directly to IOM's mandate of providing essential services and fostering positive migration outcomes for vulnerable populations.

Responsibilities

The Senior Project Associate will manage individualized case management and referrals for migrants, ensuring needs are assessed and documented, and assistance is tracked for integration outcomes. Responsibilities include assisting in the design, planning, implementation, and monitoring of social integration, housing, NFI, and food assistance activities, ensuring alignment with program objectives and humanitarian standards. The role involves compiling and analyzing data on beneficiary needs and assistance provided, drafting activity and status reports, and preparing technical documentation. Additionally, the incumbent will act as a focal point for administrative coordination, organize meetings and training sessions, and maintain liaison with various stakeholders, including local authorities, UN agencies, and NGOs. Guidance and technical support to staff involved in distributions and programming, and potential supervision of field staff, are also key duties.

Work Experience

Required experience includes liaising with governmental authorities, national/international institutions, UN agencies, and NGOs. Experience working with vulnerable groups such as migrants, refugees, and IDPs is essential. Experience coordinating housing, shelter, food security, NFI, or community-based assistance programs, along with data management and beneficiary tracking, is also necessary. Prior work in a multicultural setting with international humanitarian organizations is advantageous.

Skills

Key skills include program implementation and coordination for housing, NFI, food assistance, and social integration activities. Proficiency in data analysis and reporting, stakeholder coordination, and maintaining records is vital. Strong communication and relationship-building abilities are expected. Knowledge of humanitarian principles, protection mainstreaming, housing and shelter programming, food security, NFI distribution processes, social integration approaches, and M&E is required. Familiarity with data protection standards is also necessary.

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