IC-040-21- National Consultant to UNODC

Contract

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Background

UNODC’s mission is to contribute to the achievement of security and justice for all by making the world safer from crime, drugs, and terrorism. The Regional Office for the Middle East and North Africa (ROMENA) implements a project aimed at improving crime analysis capacities of authorities of the region and enhancing knowledge of crime trends.

Duties and Responsibilities

The Individual contractor will be responsible for providing all relevant open sources information about cross-border drug trafficking, focusing on drug types, reported drug incidents, routes, flows and prices (incl. wholesale prices) of all relevant drugs, as well as logic of production. The Individual contractor will pay a particular attention to drug trafficking in some specific borders which will be further defined in the workplan. In addition to this, the Individual contractor will be analyzing the different modes of transportation, modus operandi for trafficking, and other relevant information. The Individual contractor should be focusing on the data available online (web scraping of seizures in local newspapers, open sources and remote interviews if necessary).

This information should be provided for each type of drug as follows:

• Opiates: opium, morphine, heroin, and synthetic opiates;
• Amphetamine-Type-Stimulants;
• Captagnon;
• Psychotrope substances (eg. Procyclidine, Somadrol, Valium, Rivotril, Codeine syrup);

The Individual contractor will also need to identify part of the cross-border trafficking of precursors used to manufacture the drug, including Norephedrine, Phenyl-1 propanone-2 (P-2-P) also known as Phenylacetone and also Benzyl Methyl Ketone (BMK), Ephedrine and Pseudo-ephedrine, Alpha-phenylacetoacetonitrile (APAAN), Phenylacetic Acid (PAA), Alpha-phenylethylamine, Acetic anhydride and/or Sulphuric acid, Acetic acid and Acetyl chloride. These precursors are the most commonly used/trafficked precursors in the region, but other potential precursors used as alternatives to the ones mentioned above.

To carry out this work, the Individual contractor must perform a monitoring of drug seizures from open sources between 2015-2020, cross-reference and analyze the information obtained and perform a mapping. This will be performed liaising with the other researchers working under this project.

Competencies

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to engage in substantive technical discussion with stakeholders
• High analytical skills oriented towards problem-solving
• Leadership and self-management
• A focus on results and a willingness to accept critique/feedback from supervisors
• An energetic approach to work with a positive attitude
• An openness to new approaches for managing work complexity and unexpected issues
• Team spirit and excellent interpersonal skills
• The ability to model the UN's values and ethical standards, and to promote UNDP’s and the UN’s vision, mission, and strategic goals
• Sensitivity and adaptability to cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality, and age.

Required Skills and Experience

Education:

Advanced university degree (Master's degree or equivalent) in social sciences, or another related field is required. A first-level university degree in similar fields in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience (in research/analysis and open source information tools) are accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.

Experience:

At least one-year experience in security analysis based on open-source research (including cartography and use of Google Earth).

Language:

Kurdish, Arabic and English proficiencies are required for this position (interviews will be conducted in Kurdish and written deliverable in English). Knowledge of Farsi is an advantage.

IT:

Excellent knowledge of Microsoft and OSINT (eg. use of Google Earth).

APPLICATION PROCEDURE

The application should contain below mandatory documents:

• The technical proposal should also contain personal CV (Mandatory) , indicating education background/professional qualifications, all experience, furthermore, providing duly filled the form of Letter of Confirming Interest and Availability (Mandatory) whereby includes financial Proposal (Mandatory) that indicates the all-inclusive fixed total contract price, supported by a breakdown of costs, as per deliverables mentioned in this TOR, in addition to the contact details (email and telephone number) of the candidate and at least three (3) professional references.

The detailed terms of reference and the Letter of Confirming Interest and Availability form are available in the following link with mentioned Job Title above : https://procurement-notices.undp.org/

Please note you can upload only one document in the online application, therefore combine the CV, and the Letter of Confirmation and Availability as one pdf and upload it accordingly.moreover, please note that failure to submit required mandatory documents by UNDP will lead to rejection of your offer.