Consultant, Migration and Displacement

Organizational Context

The Global Thematic Programmatic Partnership (GTPP) between DG-ECHO and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) builds upon the successes of the preceding three-year Pilot Programmatic Partnership (PPP). Operating initially across 24 countries, the PPP established strong foundations, especially through the IFRC Secretariat-led Global Component. GlPP will carry forward this legacy in 15 selected countries, supporting a whole-of-system approach in humanitarian settings, with local and national actors at the centre of decision-making — determining how resources are invested, and how crises are both prepared for and addressed.

A core aim of the GlPP is to strengthen the organizational and technical capacities of selected National Societies so that they can deliver principled, effective, and efficient humanitarian action, particularly in the face of increasingly complex global challenges. This includes deepening community level engagement and ensuring that responses are locally driven. In parallel, GlPP will foster strategic coordination and cooperation among IFRC entities and with other humanitarian actors, promoting coherence across programmes and contributing to global standard setting.

Among GlPP's main areas of focus is migration and displacement: enhancing strategic and technical support to National Societies so they can better prepare for and respond to migration and displacement crises. This involves operational guidance, coordination across multiple countries and regions, and supporting standards for Humanitarian Service Points for people on the move.

The Global Route-Based Migration Programme (GRBMP) is intricately linked with GlPP. GRBMP is a multiyear, multiregional IFRC programme aiming to reduce risks, harms, and vulnerabilities for people traveling along land and sea migration routes, making their journeys safer and more dignified. The work under GlPP for migration and displacement is aligned with, and feeds into, GRBMP's strategy and priorities. Operational guidance, coordination, tools, and support functions under GlPP serve to bolster GRBMP's implementation across countries and regions.

To support this agenda, IFRC is seeking a dynamic and highly skilled junior consultant for a 6-month consultancy. The consultant will coordinate migration-related activities under the GlPP, ensuring they align closely with the GRBMP. Their mandate is to help guarantee that all migration efforts are technically robust, strategically coherent, and responsive to emerging needs and routes.

Alignment to the IFRC's objectives and strategy

This consultancy is in line with the objectives of the Grand Bargain (World Humanitarian Summit, 2016) to improve the way humanitarian aid is delivered, as an innovative funding instrument, and in line with the 2009 I FRC Policy on Migration and the Movement Migration Strategy 2024-2030, and Strategy 2030, making sure that all people who are displaced and who migrate are safe, are treated humanely and with dignity, and recognizing the importance of expanding our support to migrants along migratory routes and improving how we work across border.

Job Purpose

• Ensuring that migration & displacement programming under GlPP is consistent with the GRBMP standards (protection, dignity, humanitarian principles).
• Developing or adapting global tools, guidelines, and frameworks for migration/displacement; including support for Humanitarian Service Points.
• Developing an HSP database to support the migration narrative under the GlPP and the GRBMP.
• Facilitating cross country and cross regional coordination among National Societies for migration & displacement work in coordination with the regional and global team.
• Supporting capacity building, technical advice and mentoring to country and regional teams. Monitoring trends, emerging needs, data collection, and feeding evidence into programme adjustments and strategic decision making.
• Supporting data collection and donor reporting related to migration/displacement, particularly in relation to CREMP and the GTPP.

Job Duties and Responsibilities

• Support in the coordination and follow up on all GTPP-related activities;
• Establish a Technical Working Group (WG) for countries in the GTPP, to drive joint technical planning, problem-solving, and peer support;
• Produce an impact and case-study report for HSPs, GTPP countries’ achievements, challenges, and lessons learned;
• Support to the Humanitarian Service Points (HSPs) global mapping;
• Revise and upload new, updated modules onto the HSP Digital Toolkit, to reflect recent learning, changing contexts, and new best practices, and initiate the collection of updated HSP case studies;
• Support the coordination of the Global Route-Based Migration Programme (GREMP), including the organization of the global workshop event;
• Provide quarterly internal updates of the Global Route-Based Migration Programme (GRBMP) and newsletters for the general migration and displacement file;
• Regularly update the Funding Tracker Matrix for the GRBMP, maintaining visibility on funding sources, gaps, and future needs;
• Support the launch and dissemination of the new programmatic document of the GRBMP;
• Support the regions in the elaboration of regional workplans for 2026;
• Maintain and keep up to date the GRBMP Global Dashboard, providing a real-time, regularly refreshed overview of programme status and key results;
• Initiate and manage the data collection process for the 2025 Annual Report, coordinating with National Societies and regional teams;
• Develop and roll out a global communication and dissemination plan, including website revisions, social media strategy, and external engagement to increase programme visibility and advocacy.

Method of delivery and reasons for selecting that method

(Is the service being delivered in the optimal way? (i.e.: workshop vs. publication)

The role will combine core duties (coordination, tool development, policy alignment) with activity-based tasks.

Support to be provided to the consultant

IFRC will be responsible in supporting the consultant with the relevant documentation and with the pre-identification of key stakeholders to be interviewed.

Time allocation

The consultancy will run for six months, from 08 July 2026 to 31 December 2026, covering a maximum of 119 working days.

The total budget has been determined based on the scope of work, expected deliverables, and the consultant's daily rate.

Management of consultancy

The consultant will report to the Global Migration and Displacement Programmes Coordinator. Regular check-ins and progress updates will be scheduled to ensure alignment with IFRC0s expectations and requirements.

Education

Required

• Advanced university degree (master's or equivalent) in a relevant field related to migration, displacement, humanitarian action, international relations, social policy or related technical discipline.

Preferred

• Basic Delegates Training Course (BTC), WORC, IMPACT or equivalent knowledge.

Experience

Required

• Minimum 1 years of relevant professional experience in the humanitarian or development with a global perspective.
• Experience working within the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement.
• Experience in narrative reporting.

Knowledge, Skills and Languages

Required

• Knowledge about migration and displacement, including asylum, refugee law, internal displacement and protection.
• Knowledge of IFRC operational framework, tools and procedures.
• Proven good judgment and ability to work with complete integrity and confidentiality.
• Cultural sensitiveness with the ability to communicate effectively in a multi-cultural, multi-lingual and cross-functional team-setting, including global/dispersed teams.
• Demonstrated proactiveness, with the ability to anticipate needs, identify opportunities and proposing solutions.

Preferred

• Very strong writing and communication skills.
• Experience in document layout and webpage design would be a plus.

Languages

Required

• Fluent spoken and written English.

Preferred

• Good command of another IFRC official language (French, Spanish or Arabic).

Competencies, Values and Comments

Application Instruction

Please submit your application in English only.