General Objective:

• Identify opportunities and deliver technical financial supervision expertise for the project partners in Western Africa;
• Participate in the creation and delivery of a common training material for partner countries in coordination with other experts;
• Participate in coordinating the project's network of internal and external experts;

Main indicative tasks:

Overall Project Delivery:

• Provide support to the administrations involved in the prevention of ML/FT/FP risks (e.g., Ministry of Justice and actors of the criminal chain; Ministry of the Interior; Agencies in charge of asset recovery) in the effective implementation of the national AML/CFT strategy and the post-Mutual Evaluation Report action plans;
• Raise awareness and train prosecutors, judges and law enforcement/investigative units in financial investigation techniques in collaboration with stakeholders of the criminal justice chain;
• Assist legal professionals subject to a duty to report suspicions, such as lawyers and notaries, in structuring their obligations and providing training on drafting [RG1] declarations;
• Support the structuring of specialized judicial training in AML/CFT;
• Support the adoption of laws and regulations aimed at penalizing money laundering acts, as well as terrorist financing;
• Develop methodologies of collaboration between financial intelligence units and investigative units from other administration (e.g. Tax & Customs);
• Support the digitalisation of judicial decisions at the national level;
• Design, develop, deliver and monitor any activity related to the field of AML/CFT, in coordination with the Regional Hub Coordinator;
• Where needed, identify and support the delivery of short-term expertise, in coordination with the Regional Hub Coordinator;
• Ensure quality control and appropriate implementation/adaption of activities under his/her responsibility, in coordination with the Regional Hub Coordinator;
• Build strong relationships with relevant stakeholders in partner countries and maintain close working relations with local administrations and relevant regional and international organizations.

Internal and External Project Coordination:

• Ensures daily coordination with regional teams to harmonize project implementation across countries, provide support, and approve key documents (national diagnostics, strategic action plans, etc.) and decisions, in coordination with the Regional Hub Coordinators;
• Plan and implement planning for activities under his/her responsibility based on the needs and objectives of beneficiaries
• Represent the project in national and international technical meetings and with any relevant institutional or non-institutional stakeholders within the project implementation framework;
• Where needed, directs communication with the EU (DG INTPA) and informs them of major developments or issues requiring the attention of EC services or EU Delegations;
• Directs relations with external stakeholders (donors, partners, service providers);
• Participates in promotional activities with project owners, donors, and beneficiaries;
• Participate actively in the drafting and adaptation of action plans to meet beneficiary needs & objectives;
• Ensure regular, high-quality monitoring and reporting on project activities;
• Draft, in collaboration with other experts, mission reports, technical progress reports and the final report;
• Any other task requested by Implementation Partners related to his/her area of expertise.