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PRIMARY FUNCTION/PURPOSE:

The Senior Illicit Finance Expert(s) will support IFES’s technical interventions to bolster capacity, strategies, and mechanisms to counter IFFs in elections. This includes the development of specialized training curricula in target areas, including IFF detection and analysis, investigative techniques, forensic accounting, and digital currency tracking. Selected experts will work with investigative and oversight institutions, civil society, and investigative journalists to develop and operationalize new methods to prevent, detect, and combat IFFs in elections.

MAJOR DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: 

Under the supervision of the Country Director, the Senior Illicit Finance Expert(s) will be responsible to:

• Work alongside IFES to develop and deliver relevant and engaging specialized training curricula for audiences spanning state institutions, civil society, and media.
  • Training/s are subject to identified key challenges in the country context but may include investigative techniques and strategies, forensic accounting/auditing, digital currency risk analysis, IFFs mapping, and network analysis, or similar.
• Advise on the design of a methodology for stakeholders to map actors facilitating IFFs within their contexts and enhance efforts in detecting and combatting IFFs in elections.
• Provide ad-hoc and targeted assistance to key investigative and oversight bodies to strengthen internal processes and procedures to detect and combat IFFs within their legal mandates.
• Support inter-institutional dialogue to build and maintain synergies between relevant stakeholders, including institutions, media, civil society, and international community.
• Provide advice and support development and implementation of response process for relevant stakeholders to address any emerging IFFs risks.
• Support general monitoring and evaluation processes for target activities to prepare for future initiatives.

DELIVERABLES:

• Contextualized and relevant training curricula, including participant materials, facilitators manuals, and other corresponding resources.
• Advisory products for investigative and oversight bodies, civil society, and investigative journalists.
• Activity reports.

EDUCATION: Bachelor's degree required (Master’s degree or PhD in relevant field desired) in relevant fields such as public administration, legal studies, criminal justice/law enforcement, international law, or democracy and governance.

EXPERIENCE: Expert level experience (10 years prior work experience in anti-corruption and good governance programming).

RELATED SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE:

• Extensive knowledge of international standards, bodies, and best practices addressing illicit finance and money laundering.
• Excellent and professional written and verbal communication skills including presentation skills, public speaking, training, etc.
• Demonstrated experience advising high-level institutions and actors on illicit financing disruption and detection.

LANGUAGE SKILLS: Fluency in English is required. Working fluency in local languages is preferred.

TRAVEL: No travel required. But if mutually agreed to, may travel to the field if needed. 

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS/WORK ENVIRONMENT:

Standard office work environment. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job.