🌍 #JobHuntMondays | IOM, the UN migration agency, is recruiting an International Consultant in Addis Ababa to support the African Union Commission and the African Group of Negotiators on Climate Change (AGN) on climate mobility.
🌱 What the project does: Through its Special Liaison Office to the African Union, IOM is helping African climate negotiators bring human mobility, people forced to move by climate change and disasters, into the UN climate negotiations. The project includes an AI-enabled learning app to build negotiators’ skills.
💼 In this consultancy, you’d:
🔍 Run a gender-sensitive needs assessment of AGN negotiators’ capacity gaps in AI, data and climate mobility
🤖 Help develop AI guidelines as a module of the AI-enabled learning app
🤝 Support a new technical working group on climate mobility across Africa’s Regional Economic Communities
🎓 Help run a three-day continental training workshop
đź“‘ Support the AU Commission and Regional Economic Communities in preparing policy briefs on climate mobility
đź“‹ Strong fit if you have:
✅ A master’s degree in climate change, migration studies or law, international relations or a related field
âś… Experience in climate change, disaster risk reduction, migration or environmental policy
âś… A good understanding of African Union and regional policymaking and international climate processes
âś… Fluent English (working French is desirable)
📌 The consultancy runs on six deliverables from December 2026 to May 2027.
💚 IMVELO Impact: Climate change is already forcing people across Africa to move. When African negotiators carry that reality into global climate talks, the continent’s voice, and its people’s needs, are heard where decisions are made.
📍 Location: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
⏳ Duration: 6 months initially (consultancy of up to 11 months)
⏰ Deadline: 22 October 2026
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