Labour Market Outreach Facilatator

IOM Costa Rica is recruiting a Senior Project Associate to coordinate integration activities for migrants with regular migration status. The role leads project delivery, employment-service pathways and stakeholder coordination; monitors budgets and implementation; develops reports and capacity-building activities; and supports access to livelihoods and sustainable labour-market integration.

• Lead and coordinate project implementation and adjust modalities and work plans in response to field conditions
• Research and analyse relevant migration, legislation and socioeconomic-integration information
• Monitor project budgets and coordinate financial, administrative and technical aspects under IOM and donor requirements
• Plan and conduct capacity-building workshops for internal and external partners
• Maintain liaison with authorities, UN agencies, donors and other stakeholders
• Prepare correspondence, reports and presentations and supervise reporting staff

• Bachelor degree in business administration, operations management, public administration, project management, political or social sciences, international relations, migration studies, law, economics or a related field plus five years of relevant experience
• Alternatively, high-school diploma plus seven years of relevant professional experience
• Fluency in Spanish and English
• Experience in labour migration, socioeconomic integration and staff supervision
• Valid residence and work permit for the country of duty station

• Studies in gender, labour migration, case management, peace and conflict studies
• Experience coordinating with institutional and UN counterparts

• Project coordination
• Socioeconomic integration
• Labour migration
• Budget monitoring
• Stakeholder engagement
• Staff supervision

• Special Short Term contract
• Local recruitment; valid residence and work permit required