Overview
Establish a roster of consultants to undertake independent preliminary assessments and investigations into allegations of misconduct of ITU employees. The roster will support the Oversight Unit where resourcing or other restrictions necessitate external assistance.
Key Responsibilities
- Plan, design, and conduct investigations into allegations of violations of policies, procedures, standards, guidelines, and applicable rules and regulations.
- Plan the strategy for the conduct of investigations defining the investigation's parameters, timetable and investigative tools; obtaining documentary and physical evidence; studying and analysing documents and records; conducting interviews with complainants, witnesses and subjects; maintaining case records, testimony and evidence.
- Conduct investigations in accordance with generally recognized international investigative standards and internal procedures, utilizing information technology when appropriate.
- Prepare high quality, comprehensive investigative work products, including preliminary assessments, investigation plans, reports of investigation and case closing memoranda, including findings, conclusions, and recommendations.
- Make recommendations for further inquiry or disposition of a case; ensuring that findings are legally sound and providing a sound basis for decision-making; drafting where relevant reports on lessons learnt from investigations, providing recommendations to improve internal controls, policies and procedures.
- Ensure the effective management and application of digital forensic techniques and tools in the investigation process, supporting investigations with reliable, accurate, and legally admissible evidence, while maintaining high standards of integrity, efficiency, and compliance with international and UN-specific standards.
- Preparation of high quality, comprehensive investigative work products, including preliminary assessments, investigation plans, reports of investigation and case closing memoranda, including findings, conclusions, and recommendations.
- Submission of final reports for each assignment, preliminary assessment or investigation, to the Chief of Oversight unit.
- Provision of an overview of the allegations and the facts and evidence that support or contradict each element, with fact-based conclusions on each element in the final reports.
- Provision of an overall findings and recommendations in the final reports.
Required Experience
- A minimum of (7) seven years of progressively responsible experience in investigations, law enforcement, or a related field, including at least three years at the international level.
- Experience in conducting high priority, complex and/or sensitive investigations, proven track record in planning, leading and executing investigations.
- Experience in conducting investigations within an international organization, handling investigations related to abusive conduct, and handling investigations related to senior officials is highly desirable.
Qualifications
- Advanced university degree in law, criminal justice, political science, police studies, auditing, accounting or a related field OR education from a reputed college of advanced education with a diploma of equivalent standard to that of an advanced university degree in one of the fields above.
- Or a combination of a first-level university degree in the above fields together with formal qualifications and/or certifications in investigations (military, police, federal/national intelligence agencies) in combination with two additional years of qualifying work experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
- Formal training and certifications in investigations is desirable, including but not limited to certifications in fraud, sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA), and abusive conduct.
