Specialist on Labour Migration and Human Mobility

 

Grade: P4 

Vacancy no.: CALL/P/2024/39
Publication date: 5 November 2024
Application deadline (midnight Geneva time): 19 November 2024

 

Job ID: 12520 
Department: RO-Latin America and the Caribbean 
Organization Unit: DWT/CO-San Jose 
Location: San Jose   
Contract type: Fixed Term 

 

The ILO is issuing a call for expression of interest for the above position. This is an assignment of a purely temporary nature, not expected to lead to a career in the ILO. Duration is 12 months.

 

The selection process is not subject to the rules and procedures defined in Annex I of the ILO Staff Regulations.

 

The following are eligible to apply:

 

- Internal candidates in accordance with paragraphs 31 and 32 of Annex I of the Staff Regulations. The Office will facilitate the temporary re-assignment of a selected internal candidate to this position.

- External candidates. A selected external candidate will be issued with a 4.2 (e) contract.

 

 

The ILO values diversity among its staff. We welcome applications from qualified women and men, including those with disabilities. If you are unable to complete our online application form due to a disability, please send an email to ilojobs@ilo.org.

 

Applications from qualified candidates from non- or under-represented member States, or from those member States which staffing forecasts indicate will become non- or under-represented in the near future, would be particularly welcome. A list of these countries can be found here: ILO Jobs: Non- and under-represented Member States

Introduction

The temporary position is located in the Decent Work Technical Support Team and Country Office for Central America (DWT/CO San José) in San José.  The DWT/CO San José covers Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama and provides technical services to the ILO Country Office for Mexico and Cuba (CO-Mexico).  The DWT/CO San José has the mandate to develop and implement, in partnership with governments, employers’ and workers’ organizations, a program of international development cooperation to assist countries to promote decent work for all and to provide capacity-building in the formulation of policies and programs to promote the full implementation of international labour standards, improve working conditions and enhance employment opportunities.

The Specialist on Labour Migration and Human Mobility will provide policy and technical advisory services to ILO constituents in the area of international labour migration and the promotion of decent work for migrant workers, with particular attention to promoting coherence between migration and employment policies, working conditions and wages, gender equality and non-discrimination, labour market institutions, fair recruitment, occupational safety and health, recognition of skills and prior learning, social protection and portability of social security benefits and labour mobility, including refugees’ participation in labour markets in the countries covered by DWT/CO-San José and in the countries covered by the CO-Mexico.

The Specialist will provide support to national ILO constituents in the design, implementation and evaluation of related national policies, in accordance with the provisions of the following Conventions: Migration for Employment Convention (Revised), 1949 (No 97) and Migrant Workers (Complementary Provisions) Convention (No 143), and their respective Recommendations No 86 and No 151, and all other labour standards relevant to migrant workers, as well as the International Labour Conference’s (ILC) 2017 Resolution and Conclusions on Fair and Effective Labour Migration Governance, the ILO Multilateral Framework on Labour Migration, and the ILO agenda on fair migration endorsed by the ILC in June 2014,  General Principles and Operational Guidelines on Fair Recruitment and accompanying definitions, and Access of Refugees and Other Forcibly Displaced persons from the Labour Market, and the ILC 2004 Resolution and Conclusions on a Fair Deal for Migrant Workers in a Global Economy. 

The Specialist will report to the Director of DWT/CO-San José who will determine the workplan, in coordination with the Director of CO-Mexico and the Regional Labour Migration Specialist in the ILO Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean in Lima. The Specialist will collaborate closely and receive technical guidance and advice from the Labour Migrati