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Project Assistant (Youth Empowerment Outreach)

LHD Project Officer, the incumbent is responsible for undertaking developing,

implementing/organizing communications and outreach activities to foster visibility and awareness

about the services offered by IOM’s flagship Youth Employment One-Stop-Shop (YESS) among

potential beneficiaries including but not limited to migrants and host community youth. The

incumbent will also be involved in day-to-day running of the centre and ancillary tasks arising out

of such functions with the following duties and responsibilities:

LHD Project Officer, the incumbent is responsible for undertaking developing,

implementing/organizing communications and outreach activities to foster visibility and awareness

about the services offered by IOM’s flagship Youth Employment One-Stop-Shop (YESS) among

potential beneficiaries including but not limited to migrants and host community youth.

Accountability

· Accepts and gives constructive criticism

· Follows all relevant procedures, processes, and policies

· Meets deadline, cost, and quality requirements for outputs

· Monitors own work to correct errors

· Takes responsibility for meeting commitments and for any shortcomings

Client Orientation

· Identifies the immediate and peripheral clients of own work

· Establishes and maintains effective working relationships with clients

· Identifies and monitors changes in the needs of clients, including donors, governments,

and project beneficiaries

· Keeps clients informed of developments and setbacks

Continuous Learning

· Contributes to colleagues’ learning

· Demonstrates interest in improving relevant skills

· Demonstrates interest in acquiring skills relevant to other functional areas

· Keeps abreast of developments in own professional area

Communication

· Actively shares relevant information

· Clearly communicates, and listens to feedback on, changing priorities and procedures

· Writes clearly and effectively, adapting wording and style to the intended audience

· Listens effectively and communicates clearly, adapting delivery to the audience

Creativity and Initiative · Actively seeks new ways of improving programmes or services · Expands responsibilities while maintaining existing ones · Persuades others to consider new ideas · Proactively develops new ways to resolve problems Leadership and Negotiation · Convinces others to share resources · Actively identifies opportunities for and promotes organizational change · Presents goals as shared interests · Articulates vision to motivate colleagues and follows through with commitments Performance Management · Provides constructive feedback to colleagues · Identifies ways for their staff to develop their abilities and careers · Provides fair, accurate, timely, and constructive staff evaluations · Uses staff evaluations appropriately in recruitment and other relevant HR procedures · Holds directly reporting managers accountable for providing fair, accurate, timely, and constructive staff evaluation Planning and Organizing · Sets clear and achievable goals consistent with agreed priorities for self and others · Identifies priority activities and assignments for self and others · Organizes and documents work to allow for planned and unplanned handovers · Identifies risks and makes contingency plans · Adjusts priorities and plans to achieve goals · Allocates appropriate times and resources for own work and that of team members Professionalism · Masters subject matter related to responsibilities · Identifies issues, opportunities, and risks central to responsibilities · Incorporates gender-related needs, perspectives, and concerns, and promotes equal gender participation · Persistent, calm, and polite in the face of challenges and stress · Treats all colleagues with respect and dignity · Works effectively with people from different cultures by adapting to relevant cultural contexts · Knowledgeable about and promotes IOM core mandate and migration solutions Teamwork · Actively contributes to an effective, collegial, and agreeable team environment · Contributes to, and follows team objectives · Gives credit where credit is due · Seeks input and feedback from others · Delegates tasks and responsibilities as appropriate · Actively supports and implements final group decisions · Takes joint responsibility for team’s work Technological Awareness · Learns about developments in available technology · Proactively identifies and advocates for cost-efficient technology solutions · Understands applicability and limitation of technology and seeks to apply it to appropriate work. Resource Mobilization · Establishes realistic resource requirements to meet IOM needs