Advisor (Counter-narcotics) - UNODC

The position is located in the Programme Office in Bangladesh (POBGD), with duty station in Dhaka, operating under the Regional Office for South Asia (ROSA) located in Delhi, India, Division for Operations (DO), United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). The incumbent will work under the direct supervision of the UNODC Regional Representative of ROSA. The staff will deliver tasks under the overall framework of the Regional Programme for South Asia (2024-2028). For more information on UNODC, please visit the following website:www.unodc.org

Responsibilities:

Within assigned authority, the incumbent will be responsible for the following specific duties:

• Implement the workplan of the law enforcement regional project on drugs under sub-programme 1 (Addressing and Countering The World Drug Problem) of the Regional Programme for South Asia (2024-2028), under the guidance and direction of the Regional Representative and in consultations with Deputy Regional Representative, including providing substantive advice and backstopping to project staff in the other South Asia partner countries.
• Analyze major trends and modus operandi with respect to organized crime and drug trafficking.
• Deliver counter-narcotics and counter-trafficking advisory services, review and assessments, capacity building and technical cooperation activities.
• Provide criminal investigation and/or prosecution (international, regional or national) training and serve as an operational mentor towards building capacity of national law enforcement, prosecutorial agencies and other relevant counterparts to successfully investigate and prosecute drugs related offences, including, where appropriate, a focus on financial investigations.
• Support regional/international cooperation in the area of fighting organized crime, including exchanges of intelligence, best practices and joint operations/investigations.
• Provide specialized technical assistance to Law Enforcement Agencies from the region holding the mandates for counternarcotics, with the aim of planning, designing and managing appropriate measures to address the drugs and crime situation.
• Provide technical advice, support and coordination with regards to a broad range of specialized training activities for the national law enforcement agencies, aimed at strengthening their expertise, operational capacity and ability to coordinate during inter-agency operations and investigations.
• Provide policing expertise and technical services to enhance intelligence collection and analysis, surveillance, investigations, tactical operations and international coordination within the different countries.
• Participate in preparing concept notes, agenda and other documentation; identify experts and participants; carry out programmatic/administrative tasks necessary for the achievement of expected results in the assigned substantive area; participate in preparing specialized technical assistance delivery tools, such as manuals and guides.
• Support national project staff in the South Asian countries in delivering the country workplans by providing substantive and administrative support and inputs.
• Undertake frequent mission travel in the project countries and as required, in the South Asia region.
• Act as regional focal point by coordinating and liaising with ROSA and UNODC HQ staff as well as other relevant international and regional actors, national and nongovernmental actors in order to facilitate project implementation and create synergies.
• Ensure regular communication with national counterparts and national project staff and HQ and ensure that timely reporting obligations towards HQ’s reporting to the donor are fulfilled in a timely manner.
• Initiate, coordinate and participate in the preparation and drafting of a variety of written outputs, such as technical publications, background papers, progress reports, evaluation reports, mission reports, briefings and presentations.
• Prepare inputs for performance parameters and indicators, programme performance reports as well as inputs for results-based budgeting and results-based management as part of the monitoring, evaluation and learning plan.
• Create synergies between actions of the Regional Programme on drugs and other national, regional or international initiatives in the field of organized crime, drugs, money laundering, the fight against corruption, human trafficking/ smuggling, terrorism, prevention and security sector reform.
• Support the visibility and communications plan of the Regional Programme for South Asia, including submitting inputs in a timely manner.
• Contribute to the implementation of the UNODC Regional Programme for South Asia and components of other UNODC projects related to drugs and organized crime.
• Collect and analyze data to identify trends or patterns and provide insights through graphs, charts, tables and reports using data visualization methods to enable data-driven planning, decision-making, presentation and reporting.
• Perform other duties to support project implementation, as required.