Job Description

Introduction

Established in 1951, IOM is a Related Organization of the United Nations and the leading UN agency in the field of migration. Working closely with governmental, intergovernmental and non-governmental partners, IOM promotes humane and orderly migration for the benefit of all. It saves lives and protects people on the move, drives solutions to displacement, and facilitates pathways for regular migration, while providing services and advice to governments and migrants.

IOM is committed to fostering a respectful, inclusive and supportive workplace where all employees can thrive professionally and feel valued. By creating such an environment, IOM aims to better harness the full potential of migration and strengthen its support to people on the move.

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Duty Station of the Consultancy: Remote, with travel to Georgia for stakeholder meetings

Duration of Consultancy: 20 working days (over a 3-month period)

Nature of the consultancy: Conduct a comprehensive baseline assessment on ethical recruitment and employment practices of immigrants in Georgia

Project Context and Scope

The project “Building Resilient Futures for Migration-Prone Populations in Georgia (REforM)” is a comprehensive response to the complex migration challenges currently faced by Georgia. These challenges include protracted internal displacement, climate-induced migration, significant youth emigration, skill mismatches, human trafficking risks (including those linked to surrogacy), and vulnerabilities among returnees, IDPs, eco-migrants and immigrants. Recent data highlights dramatic increases in youth emigration, persistent high unemployment among young people (especially women), and the growing impact of climate change on rural livelihoods. These factors underscore the urgent need for targeted, multi-dimensional interventions that prioritize the needs of youth and women, who are disproportionately affected by migration pressures and related vulnerabilities.

The core objective of the project is to enhance migration governance in Georgia by leveraging private sector partnerships and innovative, migration-focused solutions. This includes upholding ethical recruitment and migrant protection, and supporting climate-resilient, sustainable livelihoods for all groups on the move.

A central pillar of the project is promotion of ethical recruitment practices and fair employment opportunities for immigrants in Georgia. The project will work with recruitment agencies, employers, human resources professionals, and other private sector stakeholders to develop and promote ethical recruitment standards, strengthen responsible recruitment practices, and improve awareness among immigrants regarding their recruitment rights and available remedies. As part of its activities, the Project will develop practical guidance and information resources for immigrants and organize targeted capacity-building workshops for recruitment agencies, HR departments, employers, and other relevant stakeholders.

To ensure that project interventions are evidence-based and responsive to existing needs and gaps, a baseline assessment will be conducted at the outset. The assessment will establish the current state of recruitment practices affecting immigrants in Georgia, identify challenges and good practices related to ethical recruitment, assess existing regulatory and institutional frameworks, and examine immigrants' access to information regarding recruitment rights and available remedies.

The assessment will establish the current state of recruitment and employment practices affecting immigrants in Georgia, identify challenges, vulnerabilities and good practices related to ethical recruitment and decent work, assess existing regulatory and institutional frameworks, examine immigrants’ access to information regarding recruitment rights and available remedies, and identify opportunities for strengthening labor market integration and migrant protection.

The findings of the assessment will serve as the foundation for the development of ethical recruitment standards, guidance materials, awareness-raising initiatives, and stakeholder engagement activities under the Project.

IOM Georgia is seeking to hire an international consultant to conduct a comprehensive baseline assessment on ethical recruitment and employment of immigrants in Georgia.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Under the overall supervision of the REforM project manager and the direct supervision of the project coordinator the consultant will lead the baseline assessment on the ethical recruitment is Georgia and will undertake the following tasks:

• Lead and coordinate the overall implementation of the assessment, providing technical guidance to the national consultant and ensuring consistency across all research, consultation, data collection, analysis, and reporting activities.

• Review the materials summarizing the legal, policy, regulatory, and institutional framework governing the recruitment and employment of immigrants in Georgia, together with a stakeholder mapping.

• Develop a detailed assessment methodology, work plan, and research framework, including a mixed-methods approach combining different methods of data collection.

• Participate in initial stakeholder consultation workshop (s) and guide the consultation process.

• Analyze the legal and policy framework governing recruitment and employment of immigrants and assess its alignment with international ethical recruitment principles and standards including the ILO General Principles and Operational Guidelines for Fair Recruitment, International Recruitment Integrity System (IRIS), the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, and relevant international labour standards.

• Assess current recruitment and employment practices affecting immigrants, including recruitment channels, information provision, recruitment-related costs, contract transparency, working conditions, equal treatment, occupational safety and health, access to social protection, and dispute resolution mechanisms., and other relevant practices.

• Examine the availability, accessibility and effectiveness of information provided to immigrants regarding the recruitment rights, complaint mechanisms, and available remedies.

• Assess the capacity and training needs of recruitment agencies, employers, HR professionals and relevant institutions regarding ethical recruitment and employment of immigrants.

• Identify gaps, risks, and opportunities for strengthening ethical recruitment practices among recruitment agencies, employers, and other relevant stakeholders.

• Identify practical entry points for strengthening ethical recruitment and employment practices through awareness-raising, capacity-building, information provision, stakeholder engagement, and protection-oriented interventions targeting immigrants, employers, recruitment agencies, and relevant institutions.

• Formulate evidence-based and stakeholder-specific recommendations to inform the development of ethical recruitment standards, practical guidance materials, information resources for immigrants, and capacity-building activities for recruitment agencies, employers, HR departments, and other stakeholders.

• Develop a practical roadmap outlining priority actions, key stakeholders, suggested responsibilities, potential partnerships, indicative timelines and capacity development needs for strengthening ethical recruitment and employment practices in Georgia.

• Prepare and submit a draft baseline assessment report presenting the methodology, findings, analysis and recommendations.

• Participate in validation workshop and present the consolidated baseline assessment report to the stakeholders and incorporate stakeholders’ feedback accordingly.

• Submit the final report, reflecting stakeholders’ input from the validation workshop.

Category B Consultants: Tangible and measurable outputs of the work assignment

Required Qualifications and Experience

Education

• Advanced university degree in migration studies, labour law, public policy, social sciences, human rights, development studies, or a related field;

Experience and Skills

• Proven professional experience conducting research and assessments on labour migration, recruitment, labour rights, ethical recruitment, migrant protection, or related areas;

• Expertise in international ethical recruitment frameworks and labour migration governance would be an asset.

• Proven experience designing and supervising quantitative and qualitative research, including surveys;

• Experience working with private sector actors, employers, recruitment agencies, and labour market stakeholders;

• Excellent analytical and report-writing skills;

• Previous experience working with international organizations, donor-funded projects, or UN agencies is desirable;

Languages

For this consultancy, Excellent command of English is required

Proficiency of language(s) required will be specifically evaluated during the selection process, which may include written and/or oral assessments.

Required Competencies

IOM’s competency framework can be found at this link Competencies will be assessed during the selection process.

Values - all IOM staff members must abide by and demonstrate these five values:

• Inclusion and respect for diversity Respects and promotes individual and cultural differences. Encourages diversity and inclusion.
• Integrity and transparency Maintains high ethical standards and acts in a manner consistent with organizational principles/rules and standards of conduct.
• Professionalism Demonstrates ability to work in a composed, competent and committed manner and exercises careful judgment in meeting day-to-day challenges.
• Courage Demonstrates willingness to take a stand on issues of importance.
• Empathy Shows compassion for others, makes people feel safe, respected and fairly treated.

Core Competencies – behavioural indicators

• Teamwork Develops and promotes effective collaboration within and across units to achieve shared goals and optimize results.
• Delivering results Produces and delivers quality results in a service-oriented and timely manner. Is action oriented and committed to achieving agreed outcomes.
• Managing and sharing knowledge Continuously seeks to learn, share knowledge and innovate.
• Accountability Takes ownership for achieving the Organization’s priorities and assumes responsibility for own actions and delegated work.
• Communication Encourages and contributes to clear and open communication. Explains complex matters in an informative, inspiring and motivational way.

Application Requirements

As part of their application, candidates are required to submit brief technical proposal describing the proposed methodology and approach to the assignment . The technical proposal will be assessed as part of the evaluation and selection process. Applications submitted without the required technical proposal may not be considered.

Notes

IOM covers Consultants against occupational accidents and illnesses under the Compensation Plan (CP), free of charge, for the duration of the consultancy. IOM does not provide evacuation or medical insurance for reasons related to non-occupational accidents and illnesses. Consultants are responsible for their own medical insurance for non-occupational accident or illness and will be required to provide written proof of such coverage before commencing work.

Any offer made to the candidate in relation to this vacancy notice is subject to funding confirmation.

Appointment will be subject to certification that the candidate is medically fit for appointment, accreditation, any residency or visa requirements, security clearances.

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No late applications will be accepted. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

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