Jessica Schnabel Ll. M.

About Jessica Schnabel Ll. M.

I am a humanitarian and protection professional with extensive project management…

Experience

1. Protection Information Management & Results Based Protection Officer

   OIM - ONU Migración

   Aug 2023 — Present · Geneva, CH

   The Migrant Protection and Assistance Division leads IOM\'s global protection efforts for crisis-affected populations by gathering and analyzing information, creating contingency plans, and providing technical support, training, and early warning for humanitarian response.• Aligned global programming with cross-divisional strategy by leading development of a flexible results-based Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) framework for protection, enabling 100+ country offices to apply harmonized metrics that improved analysis, donor reporting, performance tracking, and strategic planning, helping leadership to allocate resources strategically. • Provided technical support and quality-assurance for IOM global and country-level protection programmes and responses (e.g, assessments, program design, monitoring, reviews) with concern to migration and protection, including protection, gender, and inclusion (PGI), remotely and through field missions.• Designed and launched global operational standards for protection program monitoring, endorsed by the IOM Director General, improving compliance, strengthening evidence-based decision-making, strategy design, planning, and innovative operational processes, ensuring alignment, accountability, and collaboration across countries, regions, and HQ divisions. • Produced decision-ready insights through analysis of legal frameworks, operational data, and processes, for risk forecasting, informing senior leadership choices on strategic partnerships, resource allocation, and program design in high-risk environments.• Built capacity across 60+ operations via shared processes, tailored training to colleagues from diverse backgrounds, mentoring, and Communities of Practice, equipping teams to design agile initiatives, identify commonalities, and leverage opportunities for shared learning and coherence across teams, leading to new insights, operational efficiencies, opportunities, and risk identification.

Education

• University of Oxford

  Forced Migration Certificate of Higher Education

• University of London

  Master of Laws - LLM

• University of London

  Diploma of Laws

• University of Minnesota

  Bachelor of Arts in Asian Languages, Literature and Global Studies