Project Officer; Displacement Tracking Matrix; DTM P

The Project Officer (Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM)) provides operational and data management support to global DTM operations, including country offices and coordination with regional data hubs. The role contributes to methodological development, training coordination, and engagement with internal and external partners to ensure effective implementation of DTM activities.

• Deliver operational and data-management support to DTM project development, training coordination, programme set-up and monitoring, contributing to the timely and consistent implementation of country-level DTM operations.
• Contribute research findings and technical inputs to OCS team’s development of global DTM guidance, frameworks, and methodological documentation to strengthen consistency of DTM programming standards across COs.
• Coordinate the design input, logistics and facilitation of DTM training programmes for internal and external participants to enable effective knowledge transfer and consistent application of DTM methodologies in the field.
• Provide methodological inputs and quality assurance checks for the design and roll-out of DTM sampling approaches, in coordination with COs and technical stakeholders to strengthen the reliability of DTM data products.
• Assist in planning, tool development, and quality assurance for household needs assessments under senior guidance to produce accurate and timely assessment reporting.
• Compile and analyse DTM data and operational practices across regions, feeding into the OCS team’s efforts to advance regional convergence of DTM data collection and use, in close coordination with relevant IOM Departments and Units.
• Research and document emerging practices and value-added processes in relation to DTM field operations, proposing recommendations to the supervisor to enhance effectiveness and quality of DTM implementation.
• Document and evaluate DTM projects, processes and lessons learned, compiling findings into knowledge products that inform continuous improvement of DTM operations.
• Participate in technical meetings, workshops, and working groups as necessary in relation to DTM programming, alongside and at the direction of senior DTM officers, conveying operational updates and field perspectives.
• Undertake duty travels to COs to assist in setting up systems for data and information management activities including data collection processes, to strengthen local capacity for DTM implementation.
• Perform such other relevant duties as may be assigned.

• Master’s degree in Geography, Computer, Social and/or Political Science or a related field from an accredited academic institution with two years of relevant professional experience; or, University degree in the above fields with four years of relevant professional experience.
• Experience in humanitarian operations, displacement, data/information management, research, assessments, or related areas, preferably within a migration, humanitarian, or development context.
• Experience supporting DTM or comparable mobility, displacement, needs assessment or information management systems is required.
• Experience contributing to project development, programme design, training delivery, operational guidance, monitoring, documentation of lessons learned, or development of methodological and operational standards.
• Experience liaising and coordinating with government counterparts, UN agencies, international organizations, NGOs, or other relevant stakeholders in humanitarian or development settings.
• Previous field experience, including in emergency or complex operational environments, is desirable.
• Experience supporting the design, implementation and coordination of data collection exercises, including assessments, sampling…