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2025/ESFSEA/12616

Job offer type
Experts

Type of contract
CDDU

Activity sectors
Public resource mobilisation, management and accountability ; Global threats and organized crime ; Economic and financial governance

Deadline date
2025/02/24 23:59

Contract
Employee

Duration
40 mois

Mission description

General Objective:

  • Identify opportunities and deliver technical financial supervision expertise for the project partners in Eastern Africa;
  • Participate in the creation and delivery of a common training material for partner countries in coordination with other;
  • Participation 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 Finance and its supervisory bodies; Central Bank; Ministry of the Interior) in the effective implementation of the national AML/CFT strategy and the post-MER action plans;
  • Raise awareness and train representatives from financial institutions, designated non-financial businesses and professions, and non-profit organizations on their obligations as reporting entities using developed training modules;
  • Support the conduct or update of national sectoral risk assessments;
  • Draft bills or regulations aimed at AML/CFT supervision;
  • Develop methodologies for collaboration between financial intelligence units and other reporting entities;
  • Design, develop and deliver any activity related to the field of AML/CFT supervision, 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 between regional teams to harmonize project implementation across countries, provide support, and approve key documents (national diagnostics, strategic action plans, etc.) and decisions;
  • Represent the project in national and international technical meetings and with any relevant institutional or non-institutional stakeholders within the project implementation framework;
  • Daily coordination between European and international agencies active on the subject of AML/CFT, with the support of the regional Hub Coordinator;
  • 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;
  • Ensure regular, high-quality reporting on project activities;
  • Draft, in collaboration with other experts, mission reports, the annual progress report and the final report;
  • Any other task requested by Implementation Partners

Project or context description

The European Commission (EC), a major player in AML/CFT, aims to bring implementing partners together in a consortium of international technical cooperation agencies around a common strategy to tackle Illicit Financial Flows in Sub-Saharan Africa. To this end, the EC, Germany and France has come together to finance major project on the African continent:

The SecFin Africa: Promoting secure financial flows, anti-money laundering and couterterrorism financing in Sub-Saharan Africa project will be implemented for 4 years by Expertise France (Lead), GIZ, CIVIPOL and FIIAPP and amounts to EUR 46,5 million. The objective of the Action are as follows: 

  • National capacities, including law enforcement and judicial capacities to prevent and respond to illicit financial flows (IFFs) linked to transnational organized crime and the financing of terrorism are strengthened and FATF-compliant;
  • Effective regional and inter-regional cooperation and information sharing in the fight against IFFs, money laundering and the financing of terrorism is enhanced;
  • Increased public awareness promotes greater transparency and holds States accountable to take action against IFFs and organised crime;

A Project Management Unit will be based in Brussels and will be tasked with steering and coordinating the network of 4 field teams (based out of Cameroon, Senegal, South Africa and Tanzania), made up of 13 long-term experts in the three main areas of expertise: prevention / investigation / recovery alongside support staff. Each regional hub will have the responsibility to liaise with national authority to deliver support under three different level of intensity: a global training programme; structural reform and a high-intensity programme coordination partly with the Swedish Tax Authority.

This Action are part of the Team Europe Initiative to fight IFFs and Transnational Organised Crime in Africa, (TEI IFF & TOC). The TEI, comprising Germany, France, Sweden and Finland, aims to create a common framework for cooperation on the specific subject of FFI and TOC, and to harmonize the actions of member states.

 

Required profile

  • University degree (BA or MA or equivalent) in economics, finance, business administration, or any other relevant discipline;
  • Proven experience (at least 10 years) in the field of AML/CFT at national or international level, including a minimum of 5 years in a public agency, international organization, or consulting agency;
  • In-depth and proven knowledge of the AML/CFT systems in the preventive and repressive aspect;
  • Excellent understanding of money laundering techniques, financial intelligence, terrorism and/ or its financing;
  • Good knowledge of global standards and framework for AML/CFT;
  • Experience in technical cooperation in public structures and organizations or advisory roles in national or international public administrations;
  • Experience working in international technical cooperation in Sub-Saharan Africa, particularly in capacity building, would be an asset;
  • Excellent oral and written proficiency in English, proficiency in Swahili would be an asset;
  • Strong writing skills;
  • Demonstrated experience working in teams;
  • Strong sense of diplomacy, public relations, and political relationship management.

 

Additional information

 

  • Mission Location: Dar-es-Salam, Tanzania
  • Mission Duration: 1 year, renewable up to 40 months
  • Start Date: April 2025

Interested candidates are invited to submit their curriculum vitae and cover letter through the "Apply" interface. The CV should not exceed 6 pages and should highlight the most recent and relevant experiences related to the aforementioned qualifications. Kindly highlight in your cover letter your vision for such an international cooperation project in the field of AML/CFT

Deadline for application : 2025/02/24 23:59

Expertise France is the public agency for designing and implementing international technical cooperation projects. The agency operates around four key priorities :

  • democratic, economic, and financial governance ;
  • peace, stability, and security ;
  • climate, agriculture, and sustainable development ;
  • health and human development ;

In these areas, Expertise France conducts capacity-building initiatives and manages project implementation, leveraging technical expertise and acting as a project coordinator. This involves combining public sector expertise with private sector skills to drive impactful results. 

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