United Nations Development Programme
Experience: 3 to 5 Years
Skill Required: Project and Program Management
Apply By: 14-10-2022
UNODC is a global player with unique expertise and mandate in the field of drugs, crime and terrorism. As custodian of the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (UNTOC) and its supplementary Firearms Protocol (as well as other relevant global crime and terrorism instruments), UNODC, through its Global Firearms Programme (GFP) is well suited to address organized crime and related illicit firearms trafficking through policy and legislative advisory services, criminal justice and law enforcement responses, specialised technical assistance, as well as promoting regional and international cooperation and empirically grounded knowledge about these issues.
In Bosnia and Herzegovina, the UNODC Global Firearms Programme will facilitate the implementation of the Roadmap with the overall goal to prevent and counter illicit manufacturing of and trafficking in firearms, and their links to transnational organized and other serious crimes, including terrorism, and foster effective international cooperation and information exchange. The specific objective of GFP’s activities in BiH is to support the criminal justice system to countering illicit firearms trafficking and related offences and provide support in the following areas: (i) Legislative assistance to implement and apply the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and its Protocol against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, their Parts and Components and Ammunition (Firearms Protocol), with a focus on the criminal and criminal procedural law provisions; (ii) Support for enhancing the knowledge and skills of law enforcement and prosecutors to detect, investigate and prosecute firearms trafficking cases; and (iii) support for collection and analysis of criminal justice data; and facilitation of international cooperation between criminal justice practitioners.
In the implementation of this work, the UNODC GFP is supported by and works in cooperation and partnership with the UNODC Regional Programme for South Eastern Europe (RP SEE), as reflected in the outcome 1.2 of the latter.
Duties and Responsibilities:
Under the overall supervision of the Head of the UNODC Programme Office in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the direct supervision of the Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Officer, UNODC Global Firearms Programme, Firearms Trafficking Section, and in coordination with the designated UNODC staff, the incumbent will undertake the following tasks:
Participates in effective management of GFP’s projects in BiH focusing on quality control from formulation to implementation of project activities, achieving the following results:
Provides quality support services to the nationally implemented projects:
Facilitation of knowledge building and management, producing and disseminating lesson learnt from designated projects and support to the promotion of cross-project, cross-unit knowledge fertilization:
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Source: https://jobs.undp.org/cj_view_job.cfm?cur_job_id=109470