CEPOL is looking a Seconded National expert (SNE) – Senior Project Officer to strengthen its International Cooperation Unit in Budapest.
The Senior Project Officer will support, develop, implement and coordinate training activities for law enforcement officials in the framework of CEPOL’s international cooperation portfolio with countries and jurisdictions outside of the European Union. Towards that end, the Senior Project Officer shall be engaged and responsible for all stages of the implementation of capacity building activities with selected countries in the geographical areas concerned. This may include the supervision of assigned resources.
Key accountabilities:
- Professional experience and competences relevant for cross-border criminal investigations from one or more of the following aspects:
- Serious, organised crime for instance drugs trafficking, migrant smuggling, THB, firearms trafficking, financial crimes, organised property crime, intellectual property crime or other EMPACT areas, and/or
- Countering terrorism including criminal intelligence, prevention and investigation, PVE/CVE, Prison and Probation, FTF and Returnees, Strategic Communications, Financing Terrorism, Nexus Terrorism-Organised Crime, Cyber Threats, Critical Infrastructure, Hybrid Threats Weapons and Explosives.
- Support, coordinate, plan, develop, design, implement, evaluate, report capacity building (training, networking, expert meeting) activities on organised crime and countering terrorism for relevant law enforcement audiences as defined in art 2 (1) of Regulation (EU) 2015/2219 (the CEPOL Regulation);
- Provide strategic and operational advice for the further development of the capacity building portfolio;
- Liaise with partners, coordinate with stakeholders in order to develop capacity building activities in the assigned thematic area and region;
- Coordinate and ensure the supervision of the work of assigned staff;
- Be responsible for the management of capacity building activities, including initiation, planning, drafting, designing, implementing, monitoring, reporting and evaluation, transferring professional knowledge and conducting networking.
- Ensure adequate outreach, communication, PR and project visibility, as well as coordination with other donor-funded initiatives;
- Monitor relevant EU policies in the area of justice and home affairs and its external aspects, with a view to translate them into viable training initiatives.
Eligibility criteria:
To be considered eligible, candidates must satisfy all the eligibility criteria listed below, by the deadline for submitting applications:
- Candidates must be employed national, regional or local public administration or an IGO and experts from universities or research institutions working in the area of law enforcement as per the CEPOL regulation;
- Candidates must have worked for their employer on a permanent or contract basis for at least 12 months before their secondment. Recently retired (retirement date no more than 18 months before the foreseen starting date of employment) staff of the public bodies mentioned above may be considered if in the interest of the service;
- Candidates must be a national of an EU or EFTA Member State or of a country with which the Council has decided to open accession negotiations and which has concluded a specific agreement with the Commission on staff secondments or of a country with which CEPOL has concluded a cooperation agreement;
- Before the application, the candidates should receive the formal approval/authorisation of their potential secondment from the National Authority in which they are employed.
Essential Selection Criteria:
- Knowledge of the European Union policies and instruments in the area of Justice and Home Affairs and in particular in the specific area as listed in the professional experience portfolios (3.1.)
- Experience in organising and implementing training activities;
- Good organisational and presentation skills;
- Ability and experience in drafting reports for senior management;
- Excellent verbal and written communications skills in English.
Please be aware that all nominations for this position must be forwarded by the CEPOL National Units and/or by the EFTA Secretariat, the CEPOL National Contact points of the non-member countries whose nationals are eligible for the secondment and the administrations of the IGOs.
Applications received directly by CEPOL cannot be taken into consideration.
Interested? Read the vacancy notice here and apply before 15 September 2023!
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