2010
03/11
Job Vacancie: Asset Recovery Specialist
Job title: Asset Recovery Specialist
Employment location: Basel, Switzerland
Employment rate: 70-100%
Start date: As soon as possible
Contract: Open-ended
Organisation: The International Centre for Asset Recovery is a Division of the Basel Institute on Governance. The Specialist will mainly work in the unit for Training, and support the unit for Legal/Case Consultancy
Reporting: Working in consultation with and reporting to the Heads of the units for Training and for Legal/Case Consultancy
The International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR) is an international non-governmental organisation with 15 staff from 7 countries and is based in Basel, Switzerland. ICAR provides
- Specialised and tailor-made training to law enforcement authorities and other relevant groups of the public or other sectors in asset tracing, mutual legal assistance (MLA) and asset recovery.
- Policy advice in both requesting and requested countries, in particular in the context of legal and institutional reform processes.
- Strategic case advice to requesting countries in concrete and actual international bribery or money laundering cases with an asset recovery/MLA angle.
These activities are supported by the ICAR’s research activities as well as by the ICAR’s IT team.
The candidate should have a minimum of 3 years of experience in investigating corruption, money laundering, or financial crime, ideally with international exposure. The candidate should preferably have experience in technical assistance in developing countries and/or the drafting of mutual legal assistance requests. Experience in designing, developing and/or delivering training programs would be an advantage.
The position requires strong interpersonal and organizational skills, some experience in training and an interest in research. Also required is an ability to work under pressure in challenging environments. Excellent written and spoken knowledge of English is required and a working knowledge of another major world language such as French, Russian, Arabic, Spanish or Portuguese is a definite advantage. The candidate must be available to travel extensively (up to 50-60%) and to work flexible hours on occasions.
Tasks include assisting officials in developing and transition countries on complex anti-corruption investigations, international cooperation and asset recovery cases. Tasks also include the delivery of interactive training programs relating to financial investigative techniques, anti-corruption, money laundering, and international assistance. This would involve the drafting and modification of extensive practical exercises, preparation of presentations, legal and investigative research, workshop moderation, and the delivery of student based learning programs as member of an ICAR team.
The candidate would also be responsible for conducting research, contributing to policy documents, representing the Institute at international forums and developing the Institute’s knowledge base.
Please send your application by 31 March 2010 to andrea.poelling(at)baselgovernance.org.