Route-Based Assessment and Analysis Consultant

About the role

IOM is hiring a Route-Based Assessment and Analysis Consultant for a home-based consultancy, with travel to Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and Venezuela depending on operational needs, security clearance and IOM travel procedures. The project, funded by AECID, supports improved safety, protection and reintegration for migrants returning south along the Central American-Andean corridor. The consultant will run protection-centred assessments at key sites, harmonized across the four countries with support from the Regional Data Hub, and produce a route-based analysis report for policy and humanitarian decision-makers.

Key responsibilities

• Design the assessment methodology and tools, develop country data collection plans and train and support field teams.
• Coordinate and supervise data collection across the four countries, run selected KIIs and FGDs, and ensure quality and protection standards.
• Analyze and validate data, consolidate findings and facilitate validation workshops.
• Produce a draft and final route-based analysis report, plus dissemination materials and presentations.
• Deliver ten milestones, including an inception report, methodology package, country fieldwork plans, progress reports, a consolidated data quality package, preliminary findings, a validation workshop, a draft report and a final report with dissemination materials.

Required profile

• Master's degree in migration studies, international development, social sciences, international relations, human rights, statistics, demography, public policy or a related field.
• Experience designing and implementing mixed-methods assessments, and conducting qualitative and quantitative analysis.
• Experience on protection topics such as GBV, trafficking in persons, child protection and mixed migration, and producing analytical reports for humanitarian or policy audiences.
• Experience with UN agencies, international organizations or NGOs; English and Spanish proficiency required.
• Desirable: IOM DTM methodology experience, Latin America and Caribbean experience, and familiarity with route-based migration programming.

Required skills

• Strong analytical and writing skills.
• Ability to manage multiple stakeholders across countries and time zones.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and facilitation skills.

The consultancy is supervised by the project manager and the Regional Data Hub Coordinator. IOM covers consultants against occupational accidents and illnesses under its compensation plan; applicants must provide proof of their own non-occupational medical insurance. Offers are subject to funding confirmation, and appointments require medical fitness, visa/security clearance and certification of eligibility.