Migration Governance Researcher

Join Sustainable Research and Development Center as a Migration Governance Researcher for a remote consultancy focusing on migration governance and Africa–Europe cooperation.

• Support comprehensive desk research and documentation review.
• Identify, collect, organise and catalogue relevant documents and evidence.
• Review policy documents, ministerial declarations, action plans, institutional reports, programme documents, research studies and academic literature.
• Prepare and maintain a structured document inventory and source register.
• Support development and updating of an evidence matrix covering institutional, chronological and thematic developments.
• Map major institutional milestones and changes in migration-policy priorities over time.
• Support analysis of key migration-governance themes, including:
• migrant smuggling and trafficking in human beings;
• return and reintegration;
• legal migration and mobility;
• international protection;
• diaspora engagement and development.
• Identify evidence on key achievements, gaps, challenges, emerging issues and good or promising practices.
• Review relevant geopolitical, demographic, economic, environmental and policy trends affecting migration governance.
• Conduct targeted research on Africa–Europe migration cooperation and relevant regional and international policy frameworks.
• Prepare concise analytical summaries, background notes and briefing materials for the Lead Expert.
• Support preparation of stakeholder consultation questions and background information.
• Organise and synthesise information collected through remote stakeholder consultations.
• Support comparison and triangulation of documentary and consultation evidence.
• Conduct factual verification and source checking for draft sections of the strategic publication.
• Assist the Lead Author in preparing tables, timelines, thematic summaries and evidence-based narrative sections.
• Support management of references, citations, footnotes and supporting documentation.
• Maintain clear and organised electronic project files and version control.
• Support preparation of comment-response matrices during technical and peer-review stages.
• Assist with final quality checks to ensure evidence is accurately reflected in the publication.