28. Oct. 2011

The Centre for Social Innovation (ZSI) is looking for an
expert at the interface of migration, labour market, and
regional development policies

In support of tasks within an EU co-funded project related to issues at the interface of migration, labour market and regional development ZSI is looking for an expert to perform the following tasks:

• Acting as contact person for the project in the Slovak Republic;
• Administering a survey on re-turning migrants for the Slovak Republic (including data on the returnees conditions before they left for abroad, the returnees experience of migration and return and the returnees post-return conditions in the country of origin)
• Collecting of data related to returning migrants registered as unemployed (or similar) as provided for by National Employment Services of the 7 countries: Germany, Austria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Italy, Poland and Slovenia on national and regional level.
• Descriptive analysis of these data (analyzing frequency distributions and crosstabs related to gender, age, education and prior occupation);
•  Writing a summary of the main results for each country/region (approx. 3 - 5 pages) and for the broader Central European Area (synthesis report – approx. 3 pages).
• Support of ZSI related to specific research of information for the above mentioned topics.

We expect excellent knowledge in the following fields:

• High level expertise in the related policy areas: migration, labour market policy, and regional development;
• Professional experience in at least one of the three policy fields mentioned and sound understanding of the other(s);
• Sound understanding of statistical data related to the three policy fields;
• Excellent knowledge of Slovak, English; knowledge of German would be an asset;
• Excellent drafting skills in English.

The contract of services for these tasks is limited to gross € 5,000.- (Euro Five thousand) including all taxes and insurances and shall come into force upon signature and be valid for a duration of no longer than 6 months. The service has to be delivered at a quality to the satisfaction of the client.

In case of interest please submit your CV and a statement of availability (in which you confirm that you can implement the requested work between November 2011 and – latest - June 2012) to ZSI, Linke Wienzeile 246, A-1150 Vienna, Austria to the attention of Mr. Michael Förschner (foerschner@zsi.at) in paper and electronic form no later than 11 November 2011, 12:00.