Principal Officer, Research and Capacity Building

Principal Officer, Analysis and Capability Constructing

AU – African Union

Bamako, Mali

Objective of Job

The Principal Coverage Officer (Analysis and Capability Constructing) identifies and coordinates analysis on migration (its causes, nature, magnitude, traits, and coverage implications) and coordinates the coaching/capability constructing of Member States and Regional Financial Communities (RECs) in migration points.

Predominant Features

The Principal Coverage Officer (Analysis & Capability Constructing) will carry out the next duties:

• Supplies general management to the analysis and capacity-building capabilities of the Centre;
• Coordinates the event of strategic plans for the Analysis & Capability Constructing Unit in step with the Centre’s strategic targets, aims, and priorities;
• Presents and defends useful resource necessities wanted to hold out the annual work plans of the Analysis & Capability Constructing Unit.

The Principal Coverage Officer (Analysis & Capability Constructing) will play a big function in:

• Reaching the ACSRM’s mandate of deepening understanding of African migration patterns and traits and strengthening migration governance within the African continent;
• Coordinating, producing,, and disseminating ACSRM’s flagship publications, together with the African Migration Journal, African Migration Coverage Briefs Sequence, African Migration Working Papers Sequence, and African Migration Month-to-month Information, and figuring out new ACSRM publications collection;
• Coordinating and offering technical experience for ACSRM’s analysis initiatives;
• Coordinating and offering technical experience for ACSRM’s capacity-building initiatives;
• Reviewing and offering inputs on venture proposals, draft articles, technical stories, briefing notes, coverage briefs, interim stories, closing stories, press critiques, closing stories, venture stories, and memos for ACSRM’s analysis, coverage, and capacity-building actions;
• Drafting, updating, and consolidating the content material of ACSRM’s web site recurrently;
• Liaising and collaborating intently with African migration researchers, students, consultants, policymakers, and practitioners.

Particular Duties

• Coordinates the event of technical proposals on analysis and capacity-building per the Centre’s strategic priorities;
• Assists administration in grant writing and mobilizing sources for the Centre’s analysis and capacity-building actions;
• Screens efficiency and prepares progress stories on the Centre’s analysis and capacity-building actions;
• Coordinates the monitoring and analysis of programmes below the Analysis & Capability Constructing Unit;
• Coordinates and contributes to the manufacturing and finalization of ACSRM’s publications;
• Coordinates and updates the ACSRM’s consultants and researchers’ database;
• Liaises with African migration consultants, researchers, and world migration students for his or her potential contribution as authors and reviewers of manuscripts to be revealed within the African Migration Journal, flagship publications, and different ACSRM publication shops;
• Leads, coordinates, and organizes ACSRM’s coverage debates, analysis, capacity-building, advocacy seminars, webinar collection, summer season faculties, and different occasions;
• Leads, coordinates, and gives inputs to the publications of the content material of ACSRM’s web site and its updates recurrently;
• Supplies technical inputs and help on requests on migration and associated points submitted by the African Union, Regional Financial Communities (RECs), Member States, native and worldwide companions, consultants, researchers, practitioners, and different stakeholders;
• Leads, coordinates, and assists in creating ACSRM’s analysis and capacity-building initiatives and addressing the executive, monetary, managerial, and technical features;
• Supervises the work of interns, consultants, and junior researchers and advises on the number of consultants and consultants for ACSRM’s actions;
• Leads, coordinates, and gives inputs in drafting, reviewing, and modifying articles for peer-reviewed journals, briefing notes, technique paperwork, common regional/continental/nationwide stories, technical stories, working papers, coverage briefs, white papers, memos, idea notes, venture proposals and associated venture documentation, speeches, PowerPoint Shows, coaching supplies, convention supplies and proceedings, venture reporting, technical paperwork, and different papers produced by the Centre;
• Draft peer-reviewed journal articles, briefing notes, policy-oriented papers, technique paperwork, common regional/continental stories, and capacity-building and coaching supplies on migration points;
• Coordinates the general actions of the African Migration Journal, a global peer-reviewed journal on African migration revealed by the African Centre for the Examine and Analysis on Migration (ACSRM);
• Represents the Centre at related nationwide/regional/continental/worldwide seminars and conferences and promotes the ACSRM’s work throughout these occasions;
• Keep up-to-date on related theoretical and methodological approaches, coverage debates, and tutorial literature on migration;
• Carry out different duties as assigned by the Deputy Director.

Educational Necessities and Related Expertise

• Grasp’s diploma in Migration Research, Sociology, Economics, Anthropology, Political Science, Geography, Demography and Inhabitants Research, Worldwide relations, Legislation, Growth Research, Refugee Research, Humanitarian affairs, or different associated disciplines and fields with a focus on migration, from an accredited tutorial establishment, with a complete of ten (10) years of related work expertise. A Grasp’s diploma concentrating on migration shall be an asset;

OR

• Bachelor’s diploma in comparable fields of research with twelve (12) years of related work expertise;
• Three (3) and 6 (6) years out of whole expertise have to be at supervisory and skilled/specialist ranges, respectively;
• A Ph.D. in Migration Research or Political/Social Sciences/Humanities/Economics/Authorized Worldwide Relations, Legislation, or Growth Research or different social sciences-related disciplines with a focus on migration shall be an added benefit;
• Related work expertise must be steady and mixed within the following areas:
  • Strong expertise in drafting peer-reviewed journals’ articles, stories, technical papers, coverage briefs, assembly and venture stories, and so forth. on migration points usually, and on African migration particularly;
  • Strong expertise in conducting analysis and coaching in migration or associated areas;
  • Demonstrated expertise in a migration analysis institute, tutorial establishment or worldwide group, conducting analysis, analysing, and publishing on migration, specializing in African migration points;
  • Strong expertise implementing large-scale migration initiatives and programmes, emphasizing venture improvement, strategic planning, analysis, coaching/capability constructing, coverage improvement and coverage implementation, and monitoring and analysis.
• Complete data of theories, strategies, and coaching instruments on migration;
• Wonderful understanding of the analysis and coverage agenda on migration;
• Wonderful data of varied features of African migration, the analysis agenda on migration within the continent, and the coaching and capacity-building wants of African Member States and Regional Financial Communities (RECs) on African migration;
• Wonderful data of the worldwide/worldwide agenda on migration and its implications on the African continent;
• Wonderful data of the African Union, RECs, and worldwide devices associated to migration;
• Confirmed expertise interacting with worldwide and regional public accomplice businesses;
• Confirmed observe report of working and liaising with high-level authorities and donor officers;
• Demonstrated expertise organizing workshops, conferences, skilled conferences, and coaching seminars for numerous audiences (Authorities officers, RECs, researchers, consultants, lecturers, college students, practitioners, media, and so forth., serious about African migration points);
• Demonstrated expertise liaising with consultants, researchers, lecturers, college students, and practitioners on migration points;
• Demonstrable expertise in supervising and main junior researchers, interns, and consultants’ groups and delegating duties and authority;
• Demonstrable expertise in drafting technical paperwork for executive-level consumption;
• Demonstrable expertise in peer-review and modifying technical and coverage paperwork;
• An understanding of the African Union’s manner of working and managing related relationships with Member States/RECs and companions is most popular.

Required Expertise

• Technical experience and expertise in supporting and managing complicated programmes, notably in social analysis and coaching/capability constructing;
• Wonderful analytical abilities to answer rising and sophisticated migration traits. and to develop, apply, and, modify programme methods and insurance policies to additional the company’s mission, targets, and aims;
• Wonderful abilities in conceptualizing, planning, creating, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating applications;
• Wonderful previous observe report in publishing tutorial publications, particularly articles in main native and worldwide peer-reviewed journals on migration points, an asset;
• Wonderful previous observe report in publishing policy-oriented publications and technical stories directed to Authorities officers, worldwide organizations, NGOs, and related stakeholders;
• Wonderful data in modifying, reviewing, and coordinating the publications of educational and policy-oriented papers (articles, working papers, coverage briefs, technical stories, assembly stories, nationwide, regional, and continental stories);
• Wonderful previous observe report in managing and finishing up analysis and capacity-building initiatives and actions;
• Wonderful observe report in creating grant proposals for analysis funding and securing funding for analysis, coaching, and capacity-building initiatives and actions;
• Demonstrated skill to current analysis findings and characterize the Centre throughout seminars, workshops, and worldwide conferences;
• Wonderful skill to liaise and develop strategic relations with consultants, researchers, authorities officers, policymakers, tutorial and analysis establishments, assume tanks, worldwide organizations, NGOs, migrant and diasporas organizations, civil society organizations, and so forth., to determine, develop and conduct new analysis research and alternatives in step with the ACSRM’s thematic areas;
• Wonderful skill to liaise diplomatically, good representational abilities, and expertise interacting with numerous stakeholders and decision-makers to construct robust collaborative relationships with governments and companions (State and non-State actors);
• Robust written and oral communication abilities, notably confirmed skill to jot down clear and concise stories and strong expertise linking analysis findings with coverage debates, choices, and programming choices;
• Wonderful interpersonal and organizational abilities;
• Flexibility and easy adaptation to a altering working surroundings;
• Wonderful skill to ship below tight deadlines, work autonomously, and guarantee a robust group spirit;
• Wonderful venture planning and administration abilities for organizing, planning, and executing initiatives from conception by way of implementation;
• Demonstrated skill about laptop abilities, together with glorious word-processing capabilities, proficiency with e-mail and web functions, and PowerPoint, and experience utilizing workplace software program functions comparable to MS Excel, PowerPoint, and Phrase;
• Wonderful command of qualitative and quantitative analysis strategies, together with analyzing qualitative and quantitative information utilizing related software program (for example: NVIVO, Atlas-ti for qualitative information, and SPSS and STATA for quantitative information) and glorious skill to create and keep databases utilizing related software program (R, SQL, and so forth.), an asset;
• Wonderful data in creating and updating web sites, together with creating content material for the web site, an asset;
• Demonstrated skill to disseminate info, analysis findings, coverage, and advocacy supplies for big and numerous audiences (Senior Authorities officers, consultants, researchers, college students, tutorial and assume tank companions, practitioners, media, migrant and diasporas organizations, NGOs, worldwide organizations, and so forth.);
• Demonstrated skill to disseminate data and data by way of social media;
• Potential to work in a global and multicultural surroundings and keep optimistic, collegial, and robust relationships with colleagues and exterior stakeholders;
• A wonderful command of at the least one of many AU working languages (Arabic, English, French, Portuguese, Spanish, or Kiswahili). Information of any of the opposite 5 shall be an added benefit

Management Competencies

• Strategic Perception;
• Creating others;
• Change Administration;
• Managing Threat.

Core Competencies

• Constructing Relationship;
• Foster Accountability Tradition;
• Studying Orientation;
• Speaking with Affect.

Practical Competencies

• Conceptual pondering;
• Job Information and data sharing;
• Drive for consequence;
• Steady enchancment orientation.

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