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JOB DESCRIPTION

Job Title:

Migration Programme Manager

Responsible To:

Head of International Relations & Cooperation

About the Irish Red Cross:

The Irish Red Cross helps people in crisis, whoever and wherever they are. We are part

of a global voluntary network, responding to conflicts, natural disasters and individual

emergencies. We enable vulnerable people in Ireland and abroad to prepare for and

withstand emergencies in their own communities. And when the crisis is over, we help

them to recover and continue with their lives.

About the Migration Programme:

The Irish Red Cross is a registered Irish charity (CHY3950), whose mission is to provide

care to the most vulnerable at home and abroad in peace, crisis and disaster. This

mission is based on the Red Cross Principles which commit national Red Cross societies

to work towards preventing and alleviating human suffering; protecting life and health;

ensuring respect for human beings; and delivering a high-quality and impartial

humanitarian service to society.

The approach of the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement to migration is of a strictly

humanitarian focus - on the needs, vulnerabilities and potential of migrants, irrespective

of their legal status, type, or category. In order to capture the full extent of humanitarian

concerns related to migration, the Movement description of migrants is deliberately broad:

it includes, among others, labour migrants, stateless migrants, and migrants deemed

irregular by public authorities. It also concerns refugees and asylum seekers,

notwithstanding the fact that they constitute a special category under international law.

The Irish Red Cross has a long-standing tradition of assisting with reception, care and

integration of people fleeing their home country. In the 1950s Hungarians who fled the

Soviet invasion were supported. In the 1970s, humanitarian assistance was provided to

families from Northern Ireland and Vietnam; in the 1980s members of the Baha’i

community were provided with assistance; and in the 1990s, support was provided by the

Irish Red Cross to Bosnians escaping the Balkans war.

In autumn 2015, the Irish Red Cross was tasked by the Department of Justice and

Equality with collating pledges of accommodation, goods and services for migrants

arriving in Ireland over the coming months and year. A Register of Pledges went live on

in late September 2015. The Irish Red Cross also sits on the Taskforce

of the Irish Refugee Protection Programme; a cross-departmental and inter-agency

Taskforce established to coordinate and implement the logistical and operational aspects

associated with the new Programme. As part of its remit under the Taskforce and

Migration Program Manager Job Description