Back CFCV 2024-19 Intern Migrant Protection and Assistance (MPA)

The Migrant Protection and Assistance (MPA) Unit at the IOM Belgium and Luxembourg Country Office is developing projects in subject areas such as community sponsorship (CS) and integration, voluntary return and reintegration, housing solutions, resettlement and assistance to vulnerable migrants. The MPA units aims at recruiting two interns to support current activities implemented including those within the scope of the RISE project.

The intern will support current activities implemented by the IOM Belgium and Luxembourg Country Office that include, but are not limited to, supporting the implementation of the \"Reinforcing integration through Sponsorship Enhancement\" (RISE) project, with the main objective to contribute to addressing housing shortages for beneficiaries of international protection by piloting community sponsorship schemes and enhancing engagement of sponsors in Belgium, Italy and Lithuania. In Belgium, the project will contribute to the efforts of the Federal Agency for the Reception of Asylum Seekers (Fedasil) in expanding the CS efforts, as such offering an alternative or additional reception solution for resettled refugees to increase the resettlement efforts in the longer term.

• In close coordination with the Project Coordinator and Junior Project Assistant, provide assistance with the overall implementation and following-up on the project activities. This includes following up on projects’ work plans and deliverables, organizing events, supporting a recruitment campaign for sponsors, etc.;
• Draft meeting reports and minutes as well as IOM documents and forms related to IOM operational and administrative matters;
• Assist with the organization of virtual and in-person events and conferences;
• Assist in drafting public information documents, website articles, LinkedIn posts, press releases and information dissemination on IOM activities towards public and private organisation;
• Contribute to the identification and development of project ideas and proposals in the field of MPA;
• Participate in weekly coordination meetings;
• Provide clerical assistance to the MPA team and ad hoc support to other Country Office project teams as needed;
• Any other tasks as may be required.

  Training Components and Learning Elements 

• The successful candidate will be part of an international professional environment, within the United Nations system.

Education

Bachelor's degree in Migration Studies, Communications, International Relations, Sociology, Anthropology or other relevant fields of study from an accredited academic institution.

Applicants to IOM internships must, at the time of application, meet one of the following requirements:

Experience

Languages

Proficiency in English is required; 

Fluency in Dutch and in French is an advantage. 

Other

The internship is subject to local recruitment: only persons holding a valid residence and work permit for Belgium will be eligible for consideration.

The intern is expected to apply and obtain a scholarship to cover his/her costs of living during the internship. An application can be submitted, for instance, to the Flanders Trainee Programme - Departement Buitenlandse Zaken (fdfa.be), Wallonie-Bruxelles International (wbi.be) or Erasmus+ program.
The start of the internship position is based upon availability of funding for the position.

IOM reserves the right to contact shortlisted candidates only.