Overview
The consultant will develop a tool to assist Member States in creating, implementing, monitoring, and updating national action plans against fraud. The role involves research, drafting, and facilitating expert meetings.
Key Responsibilities
- Conduct desk-based research on existing and upcoming action plans against organized crime, including fraud, as well as best practices, challenges and mitigation measures;
- Produce an annotated outline of the tool on the development of action plans against fraud;
- Produce a draft tool on the development of action plans against fraud;
- Support the preparation and facilitation of an informal meeting of experts;
- Review and finalize the draft tool on the basis of the comments provided by UNODC as well as the experts attending the informal meeting of experts.
- Develop the draft tool on the development of action plans against fraud;
- Participation in and facilitation of the informal meeting of experts to be held in person, in Vienna, tentatively scheduled to take place in August 2026.
- Design technical assistance plan for the dissemination of the tool.
Required Experience
- A minimum of 10 years of progressively responsible experience in criminal justice, preferably in the area of fraud is required;
- Knowledge of fraud is required;
- Knowledge of organized crime is required;
- Knowledge of the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime is desirable;
- Experience in developing strategies and/or action plans against organized crime is desirable;
- Experience working for the United Nations or other international organizations is desirable.
Qualifications
• An advanced university degree (Master’s degree or equivalent) in criminology, public policy, international law, criminal law or international criminal justice, or other related field is required. A first-level university degree in similar fields in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
