# Chief of Mission (CoM) (D)

**Company**: International Organization for Migration (IOM)
**Location**: Geneva, Switzerland
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: contract
**Category**: Policy & Public Affairs
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

IOM is seeking a Chief of Mission (CoM) to oversee and provide policy, administrative, programmatic, and financial support to the Country Office.

The Chief of Mission will be responsible for:

- Setting the strategic direction for the Country Strategy and ensuring institutional alignment

- Serving as IOM's senior representative to host-government counterparts, diplomatic missions, and international institutions

- Directing and monitoring programme design, implementation, and results reporting

- Positioning IOM strategically with governments, donors, UN entities, and other stakeholders to create avenues for diversified, sustainable partnerships

- Overseeing resource management at an institutional level and ensuring internal controls function effectively

- Leading risk management and ensuring the Country Office is prepared to support and implement IOM institutional emergency scale-up responses

- Fostering a respectful, inclusive, and safe working environment and promoting staff wellbeing, psychological safety, and duty of care

- Leading IOM's external positioning and visibility at country level, including media representation

The ideal candidate will have:

- A master's degree in Political or Social Science, International Relations, Business Administration, or a related field

- Fifteen years of relevant professional experience in general management, project and resources management, diplomacy, fundraising, and public relations

- Extensive experience in delivering large and diverse programmes in complex settings

The contract type is fixed-term (1 year with possibility of extension) and the grade is D-1.

## Skills

### Required
- strategic leadership
- programme management
- diplomacy
- fundraising
- public relations
- policy advocacy

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