Senior Project Assistant

ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT AND SCOPE:

IOM Thailand leads a range of national and regional projects aimed at addressing migration challenges and enhancing protection and assistance to migrant workers and vulnerable migrants, leveraging a whole-of-society approach.

IOM Thailand’s Labour Mobility and Social Inclusion (LMI) unit works to foster the synergies between labour migration and development, while promoting legal avenues of labour migration as a sustainable alternative to irregular migration. Moreover, LMI seeks to facilitate the development of policies and programmes that are in the interest of migrants and society, ensuring effective protection and assistance to migrant workers and their families.

Under its Migration, Business and Human Rights (MBHR) portfolio, IOM engages closely with various stakeholders, including government, private sector and civil society stakeholders. Through an innovative and distinctive programme, IOM implements projects and initiatives in partnership with private sector actors. Such interventions include, but are not limited to, policy advice and capacity-building in labour migration management; labour migration process mapping assessments; information-sharing and awareness-raising, and engaging in policy advocacy. These interventions aim to enhance migrant workers’ access to their human and labour rights, while promoting fair and ethical recruitment and employment practices.

Under the overall supervision of the Head of Labour Mobility and the direct supervision of the Programme Coordinator in Bangkok and in close coordination with the Private Sector Partnership team, the successful candidate will be responsible for private sector coordination, engagement, and smooth implementation of IOM’s  private sector partnerships.

Responsibilities

• With overall guidance of the Programme Coordinator and in close coordination with the Private Sector Partnership team, provide overall coordination of IOM’s short-term cooperation private sector partnerships, working directly with Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and Multi-National Enterprises (MNEs). This will include oversight of partnership-specific budgets, workplans, activities, and consultants.
• Assist in supporting outreach and engaging with potential private sector actors, including Thai SMEs or MNEs with supply chain in Thailand, to gauge their interest to engage in short-term cooperation partnerships. This includes development of communications materials, in close collaboration with IOM’s communications team, and pro-actively approaching the business community.
• Assist in the effective implementation of activities carried out under IOM’s unique and innovative programme. This includes liaising with private sector partners, and planning and organizing activities, such as factory assessments, trainings on ethical recruitment, decent work and remediation providing technical advisory on corporate policies, processes and procedures deemed necessary during the course of the implementation.
• Assist proactively with research, collect and analyze relevant information on the priorities of private sector actors in relation to management of recruitment and employment of migrant workers, and MBHR issues in Thailand.
• Assist in preparation of private sector partnership proposals and budgets, and provide administrative coordination to maintain and update project documentation as required, including updating and revising relevant project documents on PRIMA.
• Participate in meetings, conferences and other events on MBHR, especially in relation to the involvement of the private sector in addressing MBHR issues.
• Undertake duty travel relating to project implementation, project assessments, outreach, liaison and engagement with counterparts, etc.
• Perform such other duties as may be required.

Qualifications

EDUCATION

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Business, Business Development, Corporate Responsibility, Marketing, Human Rights, or a related field from an accredited academic institution with four years of relevant professional experience; or
• High School with six years of relevant professional experience
• Accredited Universities are those listed in the UNESCO World Higher Education Database.

EXPERIENCE

• At least four years of relevant professional experience working on business and human rights, preferably in the context of labour migration, is required;
• Experience liaising with private sector actors is required;
• Experience in organizing events and delivering capacity building to private sector actors counterparts is required;
• Experience in managing complex portfolios of projects, fast-changing interventions spanning across diverse thematic fields is a strong asset.

SKILLS

• Knowledge and understanding of key issues and players pertaining to business and human rights, labour migration, policy development, ethical recruitment and human trafficking in Thailand is required;
• Strong project management skills are required;
• Ability to multi-task is required;
• Liaising with private sector counterparts, is required;
• Excellent writing, planning and organizational skills;
• Demonstrated ability to meet deadlines and to write clearly and accurately;
• Ability to work in a multicultural team and with counterparts at different levels;
• Team work oriented but with a capacity to work independently;
• Computer literate.

LANGUAGES

• Fluency in Thai and English is required (oral and written).
• Working knowledge of Burmese is desirable.

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