International Organization for Migration
Last updated 2 August 2026
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Where it posts vacancies
What it hires
- Migration management, resettlement and movement operations officers
- Emergency and humanitarian response profiles (camp management, shelter, displacement tracking)
- Migration health professionals, including for resettlement medical processing
- Protection, counter-trafficking and migrant assistance specialists
- Data and displacement-tracking analysts
Contract types
Fixed-term and short-term staff contracts under IOM's own staff rules (a UN related organisation, in the common system for salary purposes but with its own regime); heavy use of short-term and consultancy contracts tied to projects.
Headquarters and footprint
Geneva HQ; one of the largest field networks of any international organisation, spanning migration operations, emergency response and resettlement processing worldwide.
Before you apply
Portals, contract names and recruitment routes change. Verify against the organisation’s own pages before relying on anything here: www.iom.int/careers. This entry was last verified 2026-06.
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