Strategic steering of the project and the MPCA

The Programme Director ensures the operational steering and strategic coordination of the project, under the responsibility of Expertise France as lead agency of the consortium, and within the framework of the orientations defined by the Steering Committee and the Technical Committee.

He/she coordinates the project teams of Expertise France, GIZ, CIVIPOL and FIIAPP, ensuring strategic alignment, complementarity of expertise and overall coherence of implementation.

He/she ensures that roles, responsibilities, decision-making channels, validation processes and arbitration mechanisms are understood, respected and effectively applied by all partners.

He/she anticipates, identifies and addresses risks related to the functioning of the consortium, including diverging priorities, implementation delays, methodological inconsistencies, reporting difficulties, risks related to the effective mobilisation of the human resources required for project implementation, risks of budget under-consumption or coordination failures.

He/she preserves a constructive balance between partners, while fully assuming Expertise France’s role as lead agency.

Technical leadership and coherence of interventions

The Programme Director ensures the overall technical coherence of the project and the quality of the approaches deployed by central and regional teams, in coordination with the experts mobilised, the implementing agencies and the project’s technical bodies.

He/she has solid expertise in illicit financial flows, anti-money laundering, counter-terrorist financing, organised crime, financial intelligence, financial investigations, financial criminal justice and asset recovery.

He/she is able to engage with specialised experts, challenge diagnostics and proposed interventions, arbitrate technical priorities and ensure the project’s alignment with applicable international standards.

He/she ensures that activities effectively contribute to the project’s objectives, particularly in the areas of prevention, financial intelligence, risk-based supervision, beneficial ownership, virtual assets, designated non-financial businesses and professions, financial investigations, prosecution, inter-agency cooperation, regional cooperation and asset recovery/confiscation.

He/she ensures that interventions avoid dispersion, prioritise structural support and deliver results that are clear and useful for beneficiary administrations, European Union Delegations and the European Commission.

He/she promotes capitalisation, harmonisation of methods and the dissemination of good practices between hubs, beneficiary countries and consortium partners.

Functional coordination of the Central Project Management Unit

The Programme Director ensures the functional coordination of the Central Project Management Unit based in Brussels.

He/she organises the collective work of the Central Project Management Unit, while respecting the reporting lines and internal procedures specific to each implementing agency.

He/she ensures proper articulation between the Central Project Management Unit, the regional hubs and the headquarters teams of the implementing partners.

He/she organises internal working arrangements, clarifies responsibilities, establishes effective coordination routines and ensures that decisions taken at central level are effectively translated into operational implementation.

He/she supervises the production and use of shared management tools, including work plans, dashboards, budget monitoring tools, risk matrices, reporting calendars, activity validation procedures and information escalation mechanisms.

Coordination of regional hubs and harmonisation of implementation

The Programme Director guarantees the overall coherence of implementation across the four regional hubs, in coordination with the agencies responsible for leading them.

He/she ensures that the hubs apply a common methodology, while taking into account regional and national realities.

He/she ensures the harmonisation of approaches, the quality of diagnostics, the relevance of action plans and the proper prioritisation of support.

He/she supports regional coordinators in planning, monitoring implementation, identifying bottlenecks and resolving operational difficulties.

He/she ensures that activities are realistic, prioritised, sequenced and aligned with the project’s objectives, the capacities of national partners, regional priorities and the expectations of the European Commission.

Operational, financial and contractual management

The Programme Director ensures the overall monitoring of the project’s operational and financial implementation, in coordination with the implementing agencies and the relevant administrative and financial teams.

He/she consolidates the annual planning of activities, resources and budgets, in coordination with implementing partners and regional teams.

He/she ensures consistency between technical programming, human resources, budget availability, contractual constraints and the implementation timeline.

He/she monitors the overall financial execution of the project, identifies deviations, anticipates risks of under- or over-consumption and proposes the necessary corrective measures, while respecting the responsibilities specific to each agency.

He/she supervises the preparation, consolidation and submission of narrative and financial reports produced under the MPCA.

He/she coordinates the monitoring of MPCA contractual obligations, identifies risks of non-compliance, alerts the relevant agencies and proposes mitigation measures or arbitrations to the competent bodies.

Relations with the European Commission and stakeholders

The Programme Director is the main interlocutor of the European Commission for the strategic, technical and operational steering of the project.

He/she maintains regular, transparent and solution-oriented dialogue with DG INTPA, the relevant European Union Delegations and other relevant services.

He/she informs the European Commission of progress, difficulties, risks and necessary arbitrations, while ensuring that clear and operational solutions are proposed.

He/she represents the project vis-à-vis institutional partners, beneficiary administrations, regional organisations, technical and financial partners and other relevant initiatives in the field of illicit financial flows.

He/she contributes to the project’s strategic visibility and to its articulation with the Team Europe Initiative on illicit financial flows and transnational organised crime.

Governance, committee structures and accountability

The Programme Director prepares, organises and facilitates the project’s governance bodies, including steering committees, technical committees, consortium coordination meetings and strategic meetings with the European Commission.

He/she ensures that these bodies enable effective decision-making, follow-up on commitments, resolution of difficulties and collective accountability.

He/she formalises decisions, monitors their implementation and ensures that partners have the same level of information.

He/she establishes a management culture based on anticipation, transparency, shared responsibility, technical quality and the pursuit of results.

Functional management, diplomacy and risk management

The Programme Director provides demanding, diplomatic and structured functional management in a complex environment.

He/she must be able to bring together institutions with different cultures, procedures and interests, while maintaining a clear common framework.

He/she identifies potential tensions, disagreements or bottlenecks and proposes appropriate resolution mechanisms.

He/she is able to arbitrate, prioritise and, where necessary, reframe issues, while preserving the quality of the partnership with consortium agencies, the European Commission and beneficiaries.

He/she is responsible for maintaining an up-to-date risk register, identifying alert points and proposing appropriate mitigation measures.