Implemented by ICMPD and funded by the European Commission (DG HOME), the Return and Reintegration Facility (RRF) supports European Member States (MS) and Schengen Associated Countries to increase the effectiveness of their return and reintegration programming.
The RRF provides operational and financial support to MS to facilitate the development of solutions and activities with an EU-added value in the area of return and reintegration, whilst bridging gaps between existing initiatives. In parallel, the RRF supports the implementation of the EU Strategy on Voluntary Return and Reintegration. The RRF Team is composed of 4 main teams: 1) Facility Support and Knowledge Office, 2) RIAT (Reintegration Assistance Tool) Team, 3) Operational Support to Returns Team, and 4) Referral and Local Ownership Team.
A core component on the RRF is to support DG HOME in the EU-wide digitalisation of return and reintegration. RRF takes responsibility for the further development and implementation by MS of the Reintegration Assistance Tool (RIAT), a platform that digitalises counselling efforts and reintegration case management.
To cover all tasks related to this, RRF has built and is now reinforcing a structure that leads further system development (combining and compromising input from different MS and other stakeholders), provides implementation support to Member States (MS) and ensures daily maintenance and smooth running of the platform (helpdesk, data cleaning, bottleneck detection etc.).
For this focus on system development, ICMPD Brussels (through RRF) is looking for 2 Project Officers. These Project Officers will work in the RIAT Development Team within the broader RRF RIAT Team that leads the further improvement of RIAT. Core tasks are 1) liaising and coordinating with MS authorities to understand business requirements (what should the system be able to do), 2) translating these requirements into a functional analysis (how should the system work) and detailed documentation (how should it all look like) and 3) follow-up and monitor the development, testing and eventual release of new system functionalities. Team members are invited to contribute to the creative and innovative thinking that feeds the constant development and improvement of RIAT.
For this function, RRF is looking for highly motivated professionals with a methodical mindset that like to think in flowcharts and diagrams, that can manage technical discussions with different stakeholders, and that ideally, have a basic understanding of how return and reintegration work in practice.
The 2 Project Officers will report to Project Manager leading the RIAT Development Team.