Background
UNODC ROSEAP is hiring a Financial Investigation Consultant to provide technical assistance to UNODC activities and events.
Wildlife and Forest Crime (WLFC) is a serious and growing problem. The Global Programme for Combating Wildlife and Forest Crime serves to deliver a range of technical assistance activities within several thematic areas towards achieving the key project objective of strengthening capacity to prevent and combat WLFC on a regional, national and local basis. The programme aims to improve cooperation and the capacity of Member States to work, locally, nationally and internationally, to prevent and combat WLFC and other forms of serious and organized crime. The Global Programme works closely with the Corruption and Economic Crime Branch of UNODC to address corruption and economic crimes linked to WLFC.
In efforts to combat and prevent WLFC, it has been determined that very few financial investigations linked to WLFC have been conducted. To tackle this issue more effectively, there is a need to scale up the engagement between WLFC experts and corruption and economic crime experts. UNODC, as the guardian of the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (UNTOC) and the United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC), holds the mandate to strengthen national, regional and global responses in this area. UNODC is seeking a consultant to support this work to strengthen States’ capacities to investigate financial and economic crime linked to wildlife and forest crime.
Duties and Responsibilities
Objective
To provide technical assistance on financial investigation at UNODC-sponsored capacity building and mentorship programme for Natural Resources and Environmental Crime Suppression Division (NED), Royal Thai Police.
Scope of Work
The assignment will be carried out under the substantive guidance of the Regional Coordinator for Southeast Asia of the UNODC Global Programme for Combating Wildlife and Forest Crime in coordination with the Regional Adviser, Anti-Corruption, Southeast Asia, with support from other staff they may assign.
The Consultant will, in close coordination with the UNODC WLFC and the UNODC Economic Crime Branch teams, including other field-based staff and consultants:
- Build capacities of investigators in NED by providing verbal and written advice on forensic accounting and how to plan, organize, conduct and manage initial reviews, preliminary assessments and the financial investigation, including through the definition of parameters and timelines, including freezing, seizing and recovering assets;
- Mentor analysts and investigators in NED by providing verbal and written advice on the development of red flag indicators, models and analytical frameworks to detect illegal activity, as well as on the use of investigative techniques and tools to be employed in financial investigations, including for the gathering, seizing and analysis of evidence; the interviewing of witnesses and suspects; and the preparation of detailed reports containing findings, supporting evidence, analysis and evaluation of the evidence, amongst others;
- Identify other stakeholders who should become engaged in the case either in the same or other jurisdictions, and determine the mechanism in which reports and evidence can be shared between the government agencies to facilitate information exchange including cross jurisdiction;
- Identify additional case mentoring support needs in the region;
- Monthly reports in writing on mentoring engagement, including a list of main stakeholders and their contact information, all documents developed, evaluation of the support delivered, the feedback received, the achieved results and recommendations for future support.
Expected Outputs and Deliverables
All the outputs should be submitted in Thai and meet the satisfaction of UNODC according to the following indicators: quality of the materials produced; technical competence and timeliness of the delivery; satisfactory outputs based on activities as listed under Item 3.
Deliverable | Output | Working | Required by |
A | Development of the content of a training course, including introduction to financial investigation and anti-money laundering (AML), forensic accounting, case preparation, collection of evidence, legal framework in Thailand, roles and responsibilities of law enforcement agencies in relation to (AML), case studies, success stories, instruments of international cooperation. | 10 days
| 15 September |
B | Delivery of a 2-week training course, with the support of additional trainers to be recommended. | 10 days
| 30 September 2020 |
C | On-the-job advisory and tailored tool development to selected NED investigators with a view to understand how to apply the acquired skills as part of real-life investigations. | 15 days
| 30 October 2020 |
D
| On-the-job advisory and tailored tool development to selected NED investigators with a view to understand how to apply the acquired skills as part of real-life investigations. | 15 days
| 30 November 2020 |
E | On-the-job advisory and tailored tool development to selected NED investigators with a view to understand how to apply the acquired skills as part of real-life investigations. | 10 days
| 30 December 2020 |
Institutional Arrangement
The incumbent shall be under the overall supervision of the Regional Coordinator of the UNODC Wildlife and Forest Crimes Programme based in Bangkok, Thailand.
For each specific task, the UNODC Regional Coordinator for Combating Wildlife and Forest Crimes will specify the relevant objectives, timelines, and reporting requirements for completion.
Indicators to evaluate the trainer’s performance will be:
• Quality of the training and on-the-job advisory programme delivered.
• Evaluation from participants, and
• Quality and timeliness of the reports for each event.
Duration of the Work
15 September 2020– 30 December 2020 (Up to 60 working days).
Duty Station
Bangkok, Thailand with no travel.
Competencies
- Corporate Competencies:
- Demonstrates integrity by modeling the UN’s values and ethical standards and acts in accordance with the Standards of Conduct for international civil servants;
- Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability;
- Treats all people fairly without favouritism.
Required Skills and Experience
Educational Qualifications
- Advanced university-level degree in law, economics, public administration, social sciences, or other related field OR bachelor’s degree with minimum 10-year of relevant experience will be accepted.
Experience
- At least 10 years of experience in forensic accounting including providing forensic accounting support in criminal investigations is required;
- Experience working with wildlife, forest and fisheries crime is desirable;
- Experience working with law enforcement and/or government agencies responsible for tax/finance related issues is desirable;
- Experience in presenting/teaching is considered an asset;
- Good communication and interpersonal skills;
- Excellent command of word processing and spreadsheet packages; experience with intelligence/analytical software is desirable
Language:
- Excellent command of written and spoken Thai with good command of English.
Price Proposal and Schedule of Payments:
The contract will be based on Daily
Consultant shall quote an all-inclusive Daily Fee for the contract period. The term “all-inclusive” implies that all costs (professional fees, communications, consumables, etc.) that could be incurred by the IC in completing the assignment are already factored into the daily fee submitted in the proposal. If applicable, travel or daily allowance cost (if any work is to be done outside the IC’s duty station) should be identified separately. Payments shall be done on a monthly basis based on actual days worked, upon verification of completion of deliverables and approval by the IC’s supervisor of a Time Sheet indicating the days worked in the period. [Remove this paragraph if Lump sum is selected]
In general, UNDP shall not accept travel costs exceeding those of an economy class ticket. Should the IC wish to travel on a higher class he/she should do so using their own resources
In the event of unforeseeable travel not anticipated in this TOR, payment of travel costs including tickets, lodging and terminal expenses should be agreed upon, between the respective business unit and the Individual Consultant, prior to travel and will be reimbursed.
Travel costs shall be reimbursed at actual but not exceeding the quotation from UNDP approved travel agent.
Evaluation Method and Criteria
Individual consultants will be evaluated based on the following methodology;
Cumulative analysis
The award of the contract shall be made to the individual consultant whose offer has been evaluated and determined as a) responsive/compliant/acceptable; and b) having received the highest score out of set of weighted technical criteria (70%) *and financial criteria (30%). Financial score shall be computed as a ratio of the proposal being evaluated and the lowest priced qualified proposal received by UNDP for the assignment.
- Only those applications which are responsive, compliant and accept in general condition will be evaluated;
- The financial proposal shall specify a daily fee;
Technical Criteria for Evaluation (Maximum 500 points)
- Criteria 1: Qualifications in terms of Education, Consultancy and Specialization - Max 150 points;
- Criteria 2: Relevant working experience in in law enforcement, environmental crime prevention, drug and precursor interdiction and/or criminal justice issues - Max 300 points
- Criteria 3: Previous professional experience with the international agency - Max 50 points;
Only candidates obtaining a minimum of 350 points (70% of technical evaluation) would be considered for Financial Evaluation.
Documentation required
Interested individual consultants must submit the following documents/information to demonstrate their qualifications. Please group them into one (1) single PDF document as the application only allows to upload maximum one document:
- Letter of Confirmation of Interest and Availability using the template provided in Annex II.
- Personal CV indicating all past experience from similar projects, as well as the contact details (email and telephone number) of the Candidate and at least three (3) professional references.
- Financial proposal, as per template provided in Annex II. Note: National consultant must quote price in U.S. Dollar that indicates the all-inclusive fixed total contract price, supported by a breakdown of costs, as per template provided. If an Offeror is employed by an organization/company/institution, and he/she expects his/her employer to charge a management fee in the process of releasing him/her to UNDP under Reimbursable Loan Agreement (RLA), the Offeror must indicate at this point, and ensure that all such costs are duly incorporated in the financial proposal submitted to UNDP.
Incomplete proposals may not be considered. The shortlisted candidates may be contacted and the successful candidate will be notified.
To download form and related documents, please follow the link below:
https://procurement-notices.undp.org/view_notice.cfm?notice_id=68783