December 23rd, 2021 at 09:32 pm
TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade monitoring network, is the leading non-governmental organization working globally on trade in wild animals and plants in the context of both biodiversity conservation and sustainable development.
TRAFFIC has a growing portfolio of work within the financial sector and has invested resources to establish more formal networks of institutions working to raise the profile and attention on illegal wildlife trade within their establishments.
Notably, TRAFFIC is a founding member of the United for Wildlife Financial Taskforce which is a bank-led initiative designed to improve understanding of the issue within financial institutions and assist them in targeting their own resources to detect and report suspicious activity of individuals and companies using their companies.
TRAFFIC is seeking expertise to assist in the development and delivery of a range of activities in West Africa ECOWAS countries, under USAID funding, together with partners, within the financial sector.
POSITIONS AVAILABLE:
1 . Senior Financial Crime Specialist
- Encourage and support financial investigations for law enforcement agencies where it relates to Wildlife and Forestry Crime cases. 
- Conduct sensitization and awareness program to ensure that partners in project countries are aware of the need for financial investigations in Wildlife and Forestry cases
- Conduct needs assessment within target law enforcement agencies
- Provide training and advice to investigators on appropriate financial strategies to follow in ongoing cases.
- Assist in connecting law enforcement agencies across borders to facilitate completion of key cases being worked on
- Build networks and engage with the local Finance, Transport and any other sector that would be a conduit to IWT / Money Laundering
- Provide IWT/AML detection training/awareness to these sectors
- Encourage Finance and Transport sector firms who are not members of UfW to join the membership
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- Conduct country assessments and consultations with Government law enforcement agencies and WABiLED partners to identify target countries and nominated LE personnel for a phased establishment of TWIX membership across the region.
- Support the design and launch of the Western Africa-TWIX website and provide ongoing website management and IT development support.
- Manage the Western Africa-TWIX mailing list, which includes but is not limited to, keeping the mailing list active, managing the server of the mailing list, liaising with the server provider in case of problems, and ensuring that all queries on the mailing list are addressed.
- Provide supervision, technical support and training to the WA-TWIX project assistant
- Organize and facilitate registration and training workshops for nominated users of Western Africa-TWIX and provide ongoing technical assistance to the membership base.
- Provide support in connecting law enforcement agencies across borders to facilitate the investigation and conclusion of specific cases of IWT.
- Convene and facilitate meetings to promote, consolidate and strengthen project collaboration at the country and regional level. Produce TWIX meeting minutes/reports with agreed outcomes and actions and follow up accordingly.
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HOW TO APPLY
Interested applicants should click on any of the positions above to read more and apply.
CLOSING DATE: January 23, 2022