Consultant (trafficking in persons) - Social service provider

Overview

Design and propose a sustainable national training plan on trafficking in persons.

You have:

• An advanced university degree (Master’s) in relevant fields is required.
• Minimum of 10 years of relevant professional experience in specific fields is required.
• Experience in delivering trainings and developing training materials in relevant fields is required.
• Fluency in oral and written English and Albanian is required.
• Knowledge of another official United Nations language is an advantage.
• Practical experience with capacity-building activities in social protection of TIP is desirable.

Result of Service The consultancy will be carried out under the direct supervision of the National Project Officer based in UNODC office in North Macedonia and the Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Officer under the overall guidance of the Team Leader for Technical Cooperation of the Human Trafficking and Migrant Smuggling Section (HTMSS) based at UNODC headquarters in Vienna. The consultant will be based at her / his place of residence. More specifically, the consultant will perform the following tasks: - Design, develop and propose a sustainable national training plan based on findings and recommendations from the national review and analysis of TIP cases and the National report. - Prepare the agenda for the one (1) 3-day multidisciplinary national workshop. - Coordinate and lead the process of implementation (in coordination with the trainers) of the 3-day multidisciplinary national workshop for 22 participants on specific thematic issues identified in the national training plans, such as proactive victims’ identification; analysis of complex concepts of TIP (consent of victims; coercion; abuse of a position of vulnerability); non-punishment of victims of TIP; special investigative techniques in TIP cases; protection of TIP victims and witnesses in criminal proceedings; adequate sentencing and legal qualification of TIP cases; - Prepare training materials – from a social service provider perspective - with stakeholders’ engagement based on the developed methodology and delivered them to the participants at the training. The training materials should be delivered in Albanian. - Conduct periodical ½ day follow-up online meetings following the multidisciplinary national workshop. - Prepare the National workshop report in coordination with the engaged trainers and the reports for the follow-up online meetings. - Liaise regularly with the supervisor and other designated staff of HTMSS to discuss progress on the above set of tasks.

Work Location Home based

Expected duration 1 Mar - 31 May 2023

Duties and Responsibilities As the guardian of the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (UNTOC) and its supplementing Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons (TIP), Especially Women and Children (TIP Protocol), the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) primary goal with respect to addressing trafficking in persons is to promote global adherence to the TIP Protocol, which to date counts 178 States Parties, and to assist Member States in their efforts to effectively implement it. UNODC has been present in Southeastern Europe (SEE) since the early 1990s and has delivered over 20 projects and programmes in various areas of its mandate. There is a prevalence of organized crime, including TIP, partly related to the geographical location of Southeastern European (SEE) countries such as Albania, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia, which provides significant opportunities for traffickers to profit from the exploitation of victims both in the region and abroad, and partly due to the presence of high numbers of individuals from socially marginalized groups. Despite having adopted concrete legal frameworks that criminalize TIP, largely in accordance with the UN Trafficking in Persons Protocol, all countries in the region face challenges in successfully investigating and prosecuting TIP cases. While legislative and institutional frameworks addressing TIP, including for international cooperation, are in place, there are gaps in their implementation and operationalization. In many cases, these gaps result from a lack of ability of specialized law enforcement units, localized police, labour inspectors, prosecutors’ offices, judges and protection and assistance authorities to identify instances of TIP, distinguish them from other types of offences, apply victim-centered approaches, substantiate cases by collecting adequate evidence, and operationalize consistently existing cooperation agreements and arrangements with other countries of the region and the EU. In line with UNODC's objectives defined under the Regional Program for South-eastern Europe for the period 2020-2023 and in accordance with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the UNODC Office in Skopje on May 1st, 2021 launched the project “UN. Locking Impunity of Traffickers and Supporting Justice for Victims of Trafficking in Persons in South-eastern Europe“. The specific problem that the project will address is the insufficient ability of the criminal justice system in SEE countries to handle in a fair, effective and victim-centered manner TIP cases, after the detection and identification of indicators of TIP, which results in the impunity of perpetrators and inadequate redress for victims. UNODC, through partnership and continuous interaction with government, judiciary, civil society, academia, regional/international organizations and other relevant expert practitioners, will seek to identify, with precision, the gaps and weaknesses in the TIP response at the national and regional levels, through a review and analysis of selected TIP cases or incidences of trafficking that were handled in the last 3-5 years in each project country. Using the findings and recommendations of this analysis, UNODC will develop and deliver sustainable and targeted training and mentoring programs for the project countries, with the support of experienced prosecutors and law enforcement officers from EU mentor countries, namely Belgium and France. Participants in the mentoring and training activities will continue being connected as a group and with the mentors after the completion of the activities through the creation of and participation in national and regional “communities of practice”.

More specifically, the purpose of this consultancy is to:

- Design, develop and propose a sustainable national training plan under the project based on findings and recommendations from the national review and analysis of TIP cases and the National report. - Deliver educational expertise – from a social service provider perspective - in preparing, facilitating, implementing and evaluating the implementation (in close coordination with the trainers) of one (1) 3-day multidisciplinary national workshop for 22 participants on specific thematic issues identified in the national training plan, such as proactive victims’ identification; analysis of complex concepts of TIP (consent of victims; coercion; abuse of a position of vulnerability); non-punishment of victims of TIP; special investigative techniques in TIP cases; protection of TIP victims and witnesses in criminal proceedings; adequate sentencing and legal qualification of TIP cases; - Conduct periodical ½ day follow-up online meetings following the multidisciplinary national workshop.

Qualifications/special skills- An advanced university degree (Master’s degree or equivalent) in law, international relations, political science, sociology, social policy or criminology, is required. A first-level university degree in similar fields in combination with two additional years of relevant professional experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree. - A minimum of 10 years of professional experience in research, training or operational work in the area of organized crime, human trafficking, smuggling of migrants, human rights law or criminal law, including direct work with victims of human trafficking providing protection and reintegration services is required; - Experience in delivering trainings, including developing training materials in the area of organized crime, smuggling of migrants, human trafficking, human rights law or criminal law, including through direct work with criminal justice practitioners is required. Practical experience in the design, development and delivery of capacity-building activities and in the development of training tools, materials, manuals or curricula, with a focus on social protection of TIP is desirable;

Languages- English and French are the working languages of the United Nations Secretariat. For this post, fluency in oral and written English and Albanian is required. Knowledge of another official United Nations language is an advantage.

No Fee THE UNITED NATIONS DOES NOT CHARGE A FEE AT ANY STAGE OF THE RECRUITMENT PROCESS (APPLICATION, INTERVIEW MEETING, PROCESSING, OR TRAINING). THE UNITED NATIONS DOES NOT CONCERN ITSELF WITH INFORMATION ON APPLICANTS’ BANK ACCOUNTS.

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