Senior Movement Operations Manager

Job Identification (Reference Number): 16160
Position Title: Senior Movement Operations Manager
Duty Station City: Athens
Duty Station Country: Greece
Grade: P-4
Contract Type: Fixed-term (1 year with possibility of extension)
Recruiting Type: Professional
Vacancy Type: Vacancy Notice
Initial duration: 1 year with possibility of extension   
Closing date: 26 August 2025

Introduction:    

Established in 1951, IOM is a related Organization of the United Nations, and as the leading UN agency in the field of migration, works closely with governmental, intergovernmental and non-governmental partners. IOM is dedicated to promoting humane and orderly migration for the benefit of all. It does so by providing services and advice to governments and migrants.

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Applications are welcome from first- and second-tier candidates, particularly qualified female candidates as well as applications from the non-represented member countries of IOM. For all IOM vacancies, applications from qualified and eligible first-tier candidates are considered before those of qualified and eligible second-tier candidates in the selection process

For the purpose of this call, the following are considered first-tier candidates:  

1. Internal candidates
2. External female candidates:
3. Candidates from the following non-represented member states:

Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Comoros, Congo (the), Cook Islands, Dominica, Federated States of Micronesia, Grenada, Guinea-Bissau, Holy See, Iceland, Israel, Kiribati, Madagascar, Marshall Islands, Namibia, Nauru, Palau, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Samoa, Sao Tome and Principe, Seychelles, Solomon Islands, Suriname, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu

Second tier candidates include:
All external candidates, except candidates from non-represented member states of IOM and female candidates.

Context:

Since its inception in 1951, IOM has organized the international transport of more than 19 million migrants and refugees. The organized movement of persons in need of international migration assistance is a primary mandate of the Organization and a cornerstone of IOM's operations. International movements of migrants and refugees occur from nearly every IOM mission in the world.

With movement support and expertise, Resettlement and Movement Management (RMM) contributes to Department of Mobility Pathways and Inclusion (DMPI) and institutional coherence on regular pathways. RMM supports resettlement and complementary pathways movements, as well as international movement arrangements across the Organization's service areas for return, repatriation, humanitarian movements and others. IOM movements occur in nearly all of IOM's 175 Member States. The RMM Headquarters (HQ) Movement Operations Unit supports IOM operations across the spectrum of the Organization's programmes by maintaining a global network of air transport options and providing tools and training to operations staff to ensure IOM's comparative advantage in transporting migrants and refugees throughout the world safely, smoothly and cost-effectively. A critical resource of the Organization in doing so is the development and maintenance of global air transport agreements offering preferential fares and conditions of service for passengers travelling under IOM auspices.

Under the direct supervision of the Head, Resettlement and Movement Management Unit, and overall supervision of the Head, Movement, Resettlement and Labor Pathways Division, the Senior Movement Operations Manager will be responsible and accountable for the negotiations and management of the Organization's global airline and travel systems agreements with major airline and other travel industry providers to implement air movement operations. They will represent IOM in negotiations with airlines and other travel industry providers and provide strategic and tactical assistance and expert guidance, on air and any other type of movement operations, as well as RMM proprietary tools, to Country Offices (COs) and HQs.