International Consultant (Support the assessment of Transnational Organized Crime and the Nexus with Counter-Proliferation Financing in Southeast Asia)

Organizational Context

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) seeks an International Consultant to support the assessment of Transnational Organized Crime and its nexus with Counter-Proliferation Financing in Southeast Asia. This home-based role will contribute to developing regional guidance documents, delivering technical assistance, and refining strategies to combat financial crime.

Job Purpose

The International Consultant will play a crucial role in enhancing regional capacity to address transnational organized crime and its links to proliferation financing. This involves contributing to the development and finalization of a comprehensive Regional Guidance Document, which will clarify typologies, risks, and response strategies for money laundering and proliferation financing. The consultant will also support technical assistance missions, capacity-building activities, and public-private dialogues, directly engaging with competent authorities and stakeholders across Southeast Asia. The ultimate aim is to strengthen detection, reporting, and investigative capabilities, fostering collaboration to counter financial crime and sanctions evasion.

Responsibilities

The consultant will support the design and development of a Regional Guidance Document on money laundering, transnational organized crime, and proliferation financing, including specific typologies, risks, and response strategies. This includes clarifying emerging threats, sanctions evasion tactics, and frameworks for risk-based supervision. The role involves designing, planning, coordinating, and delivering regional expert group meetings for data collection and validation. Additionally, the consultant will support in-country mentorship missions to financial crime units and law enforcement, assist in facilitating public-private partnership dialogues to strengthen collaboration, and develop workshop and training materials. The consultant will also contribute to preparing outcomes documents, mission reports, and refining technical assistance strategies.

Work Experience

A minimum of two years of progressive professional experience in financial crime, intelligence analysis, organized crime, money laundering, or counter-proliferation financing is required. Demonstrated expertise in designing and delivering research programs, risk assessments, capacity-building, or technical assistance in counter-proliferation financing is essential. Experience advising governments or international organizations on proliferation financing and sanctions is desirable.

Skills

Expertise in financial crime, organized crime, money laundering, and counter-proliferation financing. Skills in research, risk assessment, capacity building, and technical assistance delivery. Experience in advising governments and international organizations. Fluency in English.

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