International Consultant (Asset Recovery and AML/CFT Project Coordination Support in South-East Asia)

Organizational Context

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) seeks an International Consultant to support asset recovery and AML/CFT project coordination in South-East Asia. This home-based role, reporting to the UNODC Programme Officer, is crucial for developing Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and coordinating capacity-building activities across the region.

Job Purpose

The purpose of this role is to provide expert technical and coordination support for UNODC's initiatives in South-East Asia, focusing on asset recovery and Anti-Money Laundering/Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT). The consultant will play a critical role in developing a model SOP for asset recovery from cyber-scams, casinos, and illegal gambling, ensuring alignment with international standards. Additionally, the role involves coordinating and contributing to technical assistance missions, workshops, and dialogues with financial crime units, law enforcement, and private sector entities to strengthen regional cooperation, detection, and reporting of financial crimes, including sanctions evasion and virtual asset risks.

Responsibilities

The consultant will provide technical and coordination support for project activities, including two in-country technical mentorship missions to the Philippines and Thailand, a regional public-private partnership dialogue focused on sanctions evasion and virtual asset service providers, and a regional Expert Group Meeting. A key responsibility is developing a model Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for asset recovery from cyber-scams, casinos, and illegal gambling, covering identification, tracing, seizure, management, confiscation, and return, based on research and international standards. The role also involves drafting various activity-related documents, liaising with stakeholders, preparing official correspondence, assisting with participant nominations and documentation, and preparing activity reports, meeting summaries, and recommendations.

Work Experience

A minimum of seven years of professional experience in anti-money laundering, countering the financing of terrorism, financial crime, transnational organized crime, or counter-proliferation financing is required. Experience in programme management, leading technical assistance projects, workshops, and capacity-building initiatives in South-East Asia and the Pacific is also required. Familiarity with international organizations and the UN system is necessary.

Skills

Expertise in asset recovery and AML/CFT; programme management; technical assistance project leadership; workshop and training facilitation; stakeholder liaison; drafting reports and official correspondence; research and analysis; familiarity with international standards (e.g., FATF); knowledge of cyber-scams, casinos, illegal gambling, virtual assets, and blockchain technology; fluency in English.

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