Programme Officer

20 Apr 2026 Programme Officer at International Organization for Migration (IOM)

• Provide administrative and technical support to JLMP activities in the COMESA region in close coordination with the COMESA Secretariat and the JLMP Programme Technical Committee and Programme Steering Committee. • Assist in coordinating and streamlining JLMP interventions at the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) and Malawi. • Support the timely implementation of all JLMP projects in the COMESA region and Malawi, in accordance with the planned activities in the work plan. • Participate in relevant expert meetings and relevant consultative forums at the COMESA/Malawi as required and support awareness-raising about the JLMP by preparing talking points, briefing notes, and summary notes. • Support the organization of national and regional consultative forums, including coordination of logistics, participation lists, agendas, and meeting documentation, and contribute to the preparation of policy research documents. • Provide support to capacity building, communication, reporting activities by compiling information, drafting sections of reports and presentations and coordinating inputs from relevant institutions at the COMESA and Member States levels on Labour Migration Issues. • Support the COMESA/Malawi labour migration programme portfolio by gathering and organizing relevant documentation and assisting with follow-up actions related to the operationalization of the COMESA Migration Policy Framework at the regional and national levels. • Support coordination of the JLMP Programme with other projects, thematic areas, units and specialized institutions within COMESA and with development partners on issues related to labour migration, including preparing correspondences, tracking requests and maintaining contact list. • Support labour migration policy analysis and development at the COMESA and Member States levels and contribute to programme implementation, and monitoring and evaluation of the JLMP programme. • Support coordination of activities and initiatives through relevant policy organs. • Support effective working relationships between COMESA, AUC, the AUC Project Support Unit (PSU), all JLMP Implementing Partners, and labour migration actors within and beyond the COMESA region by facilitating information sharing, organizing coordination calls, and documenting agreed next steps. • Draft inputs and compile information to support recommendations aimed at improving regular labour migration management in the region. 13.Provide secretariat and administrative support to the Labour Migration and Social Protection Working Groups of the Social Dialogue Forum, including meeting preparation, note-taking, and circulation of documents. • Support monitoring of programme implementation by providing inputs to the designated M&E focal person, including collecting data, updating indicators, and drafting brief progress notes in line with the JLMP Strategic Framework and Monitoring and Evaluation Plan (2020-2030) framework.