Policy Advisor

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Responsibilities

1. Advise on designing, implementing, and monitoring innovation initiatives aimed at expanding immigrants and refugees’ access to community resources and opportunities;
2. Assist with quantitative analyses using data on immigrants to understand and devise appropriate solutions to the underlying factors of poverty;
3. Analyze public policy and legislation on immigration to determine areas of leverage for responses to challenges encountered by refugees and immigrants;
4. Advise on best approaches to increase the visibility of refugees and immigrants in the receiving communities;
5. Identify competition and propose approaches to partnerships and linkages;
6. Create tools for assessing outcomes and impact of the program and ex-post monitoring of the beneficiaries ;
7. Develop mechanisms for measuring and monitoring the effectiveness of programs on increasing community equity and resilience;
8. Provide recommendations on equitable policy development and implementation, with a focus on supporting underserved populations;
9. Support the drafting of memoranda, policy briefs, fact sheets, position papers on issues of interest for COCD;
10. Participate in meetings with partners and advise on related memoranda;

1. Student in political science, sociology, laws, or a related field
2. Experience in policy development, implementation and evaluation, and immigration policy;
3. Interpersonal skills and ability to maintain cooperative relationships and ongoing communications with persons of diverse social, educational, and cultural backgrounds;
4. Demonstrated working knowledge of social science research;
5. Demonstrated ability to blend technical knowledge and expertise with excellent verbal/writing skills and the ability to communicate complex information to both technical and non-technical audiences;
6. Organized with strong skills in using project management tools to compile information in the most efficient and informative way:
7. Ability to take direction and work independently with minimal direction, making independent decisions, establishing priorities, and following through on assignments;
8. Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite.