International Consultant at United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)

Responsibilities

Under the supervision of the ROEA Programme Management Officer, as well as the Programme Officer in the Terrorism Prevention Branch dealing with Eastern Africa, the Consultant will:

• Contribute to the planning, preparation, organization and successful implementation of projects activities, including by liaising with experts, coordinating with field-staff, proposing agenda topics, identifying participants, and providing substantive inputs;
• Contribute with the overall project coordination, implementation, monitoring and reporting of capacity building activities, including ensuring timely implementation of activities with regular monitoring and reporting, and chairing meetings;
• Coordinate and provide substantive inputs to the drafting of project monitoring and evaluation materials, implementation reports, activity evaluation reports, and impact assessment documents;
• Provide substantive inputs to written outputs and working documents, presentations and other substantive material;
• Provide substantive inputs for the drafting of research papers on relevant counter-terrorism and transnational organized crime areas, regional training needs assessments (TNA), and regional terrorism threat and trends assessments;
• Undertake and conduct research, design of data collection tools, analysis and presentations of information, and prepare conclusions, for project outputs and programmatic development;
• Liaise with and maintain contact with project partners to ensure the timely delivery and provision of technical assistance.

Qualifications/special skills

Academic Qualifications:

• Advanced university degree in criminology, law, political sciences, sociology or related discipline 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

Experience:

• A minimum of two years of work experience in programme or project management support, technical assistance or related areas, is required.
• Experience in development of concept notes, background papers, project proposals and implementation reports is required.
• Experience with organizing capacity-building activities in counterterrorism or a directly related field is required.
• Experience in development of research papers on relevant counter-terrorism and transnational organized crime areas, training needs assessments, and terrorism threat and trends assessments is required.
• Demonstrated knowledge of counter-terrorism measures, UNODC mandate and Eastern Africa region areas is required.
• Work experience within the United Nations system or a similar international organization is desirable.

Language:

•  English and French are the working languages of the United Nations Secretariat. For this position, fluency in oral and written English is required. Knowledge of another official United Nations Secretariat language is an advantage.