Tetra Tech Calls For Job Applications
ROLE: Financial Crimes Specialist
Background Information on the Project
A four-year USAID-funded program, the West Africa Biodiversity and Low Emissions Development (WABiLED) Program aims to combat wildlife trafficking and improve great ape conservation, reduce deforestation, forest degradation, and biodiversity loss in key transboundary forest landscapes, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions and increase carbon sequestration from land use. TRAFFIC, Born Free USA, Winrock International, Re: wild, and Dalberg Associates are subcontracting with Tetra Tech ARD to deploy WABiLED.
WABiLED works with partners to strengthen national and regional networks and institutions to enforce and prosecute wildlife trafficking laws, implement regional and transboundary cooperation and biodiversity conservation strategies in Guinea, Liberia, Cote d’Ivoire, and Sierra Leone, and improve economic planning and low-emission development.
Regional, municipal, and national WABiLED efforts will give knowledge and information to inform conservation and development laws and policies.
Position Description
Under Objective 1 of the WABiLED project, this is an activity management post with responsibility for the planning, delivery, and reporting function of various tasks linked to mainstreaming financial crime investigations in West Africa. The role of this position is to sensitize (where applicable) and develop the ability of key stakeholders in the interdiction, conviction, and seizure of assets of wildlife crime offenders through financial investigations and the implementation of financial crime law.
Specific responsibilities
- When necessary, conduct needs assessments inside target law enforcement agencies, particularly in relation to financial crimes investigations and asset seizures for wildlife crimes.
- Encourage and help law enforcement agencies conducting financial investigations into Wildlife and Forestry Crime cases.
- Conduct a sensitization and awareness campaign to ensure that project partners are aware of the importance of financial investigations in wildlife and forestry situations.
- Provide investigators with training and advice on suitable financial tactics to use in ongoing cases.
- Assist in connecting law enforcement organizations across borders to expedite the completion of major cases currently under investigation.
- Identify and prioritize prominent individuals in the region’s finance sectors, and create networks, and interact with finance and related trade sectors, such as transportation, that could serve as a conduit for Illegal Wildlife Trade (IWT) / Money Laundering. This might include pushing corporations in the banking and transportation sectors that are not members of ‘United for Wildlife’ to join.
- Identify sources of financial crime data in IWT, aid project partners in obtaining this data, and assist in advising on case evaluations when they become available.
- Investigate the possibility of creating Public Private Partnership Forums in key countries to share data and learn about organized crime syndicates involved in IWT with the Senior Manager of Law Enforcement at TRAFFIC and the United for Wildlife Financial Taskforce.
- Advocate for asset recovery in known illegal Wildlife Trade instances with appropriate enforcement authorities in certain nations, if/where practicable.
- Contribute to the formulation of WABiLED’s annual work plans and reporting.
- The WABiLED CWT Lead will be in charge of the CWT Financial Crime Specialist, while the Senior Manager of Law Enforcement at TRAFFIC will offer technical oversight as needed.
Required Qualifications or Experience
- A master’s degree (or equivalent upper-level professional certification) in finance, forensic accounting, policing, criminal justice, or another comparable discipline is preferred.
- Significant experience dealing with financial crime (e.g., money laundering);
- Working experience in Africa, preferably in West or Central Africa, is preferred.
- An understanding of environmental crime issues would be advantageous.
- Experience educating and teaching international or transnational crime, anti-corruption, anti-money laundering (AML), and collaboration, as well as mentoring governments.
- Experience preparing donor/project reports is required.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication abilities;
- Fluency in written and spoken English, as well as French, would be advantageous.
- Must be able to travel extensively throughout West Africa, with regular stays of up to 10 days away from home.
How to Apply for this Tetra Tech Job
Please send your resume and cover letter to wabiledrecruits@gmail.com.
Closing Date: The deadline for applications is October 31, 2023.
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