National Migration Programme Lead

Global Roles; Canberra; Hybrid; AUD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

The National Programme Officer role, placed via Global Roles, focuses on leading and coordinating migration and humanitarian programmes with strong governance, donor reporting and cross‑cutting integration across gender, protection and human rights. The post requires delivering compliant outcomes, managing budgets, and engaging diverse stakeholders in Australia and beyond.

With experience in international development and a track record of supervising teams, you will drive project development,

Qualifications

• Master’s degree or Bachelor’s with relevant professional experience in international development or migration.
• Experience managing migration, settlement, humanitarian or related programmes.
• Experience supervising staff and coordinating geographically dispersed or multicultural teams.
• Experience managing government-funded programmes, contractual deliverables, donor reporting, budgets, risks and compliance.
• Experience engaging with government counterparts, IOM country/regional offices, HQ, and mobilization functions.
• Experience in project development, resource mobilization, concept-note and proposal preparation, pipeline tracking and institutional reporting.
• Experience with results-based management, monitoring and evaluation, audit support, quality assurance and continuous improvement.
• Experience working with Australian migration, humanitarian, settlement or community sponsorship policy and delivery settings is a distinct advantage.
• Experience in IOM administrative, financial, HR, procurement and project-management systems is an advantage.
• Strong programme and people-management skills, ability to set priorities, delegate and accountability.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate the overall implementation of the project including the oversight of the financial, logistical, administrative and technical aspects in accordance with IOM’s policies, practices and global standards as well as relevant requirements, guidelines and grant agreements.
• Monitor project implementation according to the work plan, document and evaluate results, identify the causes of deviations and bottlenecks and recommend and implement corrective actions.
• Promote and contribute to the integration and mainstreaming of gender, protection, human rights and other pertinent cross-cutting issues into programme implementation.
• Develop monitoring, evaluation, and reporting tools. Contribute to information management including awareness raising and visibility, press releases, website updates and other relevant information-sharing materials.
• Identify potential areas for project development and contribute to the development of new projects by selecting and summarising background information, assessing the local context and drafting segments of project proposals.
• Participate in the development and adjustment of methodologies, contingency plans, approaches and standard operations procedures to respond to emerging challenges in the county through a consultative process with other relevant parties in the office.
• Coordinate the elaboration and dissemination of reports for donors, government and other relevant stakeholders ensuring timely submission and compliance with donor and IOM requirements.
• Liaise and coordinate with government entities, Implementing Partners (IPs), United Nation (UN) agencies, civil society, donors and other stakeholders.
• Plan, develop, organise and deliver capacity building activities to build capacity of staff, partners, government officials, and other humanitarian actors.
• Participate in relevant conferences, working groups, workshops, steering committees, working groups, and other forums.
• Supervise, train, and guide project staff.
• Undertake duty travel as required related to project implementation and monitoring.
• Perform such other relevant duties as maybe assigned.

Skills

Migration Programme Coordination

Humanitarian Programme Management

Settlement Programme Management

Staff Supervision

Multicultural Team Leadership

Donor Reporting

Budget Management

Risk Management

Compliance Management

Stakeholder Engagement

Resource Mobilization

Project Development

Proposal Preparation

Result-Based Management

Monitoring and Evaluation

Audit Support

Quality Assurance

Contract Interpretation

Policy Implementation

Analytical Skills

Briefing Skills

Negotiation Skills

Relationship Management

Finance Management

Performance Management

Knowledge Management

Education

Master’s degree in International Relations, Migration Studies, Law, Public Policy, International Development, Business Administration, Programme Management, Social Sciences or a related field

Bachelor’s degree in the above fields with four years of relevant professional experience

Job description

The National Programme Officer role, placed via Global Roles, focuses on leading and coordinating migration and humanitarian programmes with strong governance, donor reporting and cross‑cutting integration across gender, protection and human rights. The post requires delivering compliant outcomes, managing budgets, and engaging diverse stakeholders in Australia and beyond.

With experience in international development and a track record of supervising teams, you will drive project development,