Country: Liberia
Closing date: 14 Dec 2016
Financial Investigation Expert/Trainer (Liberian Expert),
Legal Professional Development and Anti-Corruption
Program in Liberia (LPAC)
Company Profile: MSI, a Tetra Tech Company, is a Washington, DC metro area international development firm with a 35-year history of delivering development results across the world. Our core expertise is in the fields of monitoring and evaluation (M&E), institutional development, public sector management, governance and anti-corruption. MSI implements nearly 100 projects in 90 countries around the world such as Jordan, Morocco, Lebanon, Syria, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Colombia, and Mexico. As one of the leading companies in our field, MSI has partnered with more than 80 organizations across all sectors of international development with clients ranging from large bilateral and multilateral donors such as USAID, the World Bank and the UNDP to national and local governments, NGOs, think tanks, foundations and universities. For more information on MSI, please visit our website at www.msiworldwide.com.
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Project Summary: **The USAID Legal Professional Development and Anti-Corruption activity (LPAC) is five-year project that consists of two components. The first component directs capacity building to the four key Liberian justice sector institutions that educate, regulate and inform legal professionals. The second component supports the Liberian Anti-Corruption Commission (LACC) and associated Government of Liberia entities in their efforts to investigate, prosecute and convict perpetrators of corruption related crimes, and to educate the public regarding the fight against corruption in Liberia.
LPAC works closely with the LACC and its Enforcement Division in particular. LPAC concluded the Human Institutional Capacity Development (HICD) and the Information Communication Technology (ICT) assessments of LACC and developed a plan for improving organizational and functional capacity of LACC. LPAC builds the capacity of the LACC investigators and prosecutors through training and hands-on technical support. For example, LPAC advisors have trained investigators and prosecutors of LACC on the basics of corruption investigation and prosecution, information analysis in investigation process, and legal research and writing. LPAC also assists LACC with developing standard operating procedures for the investigation of the complex corruption cases and coordinating with the Ministry of Justice (MOJ) charged with prosecuting corruption cases. LPAC also facilitates interagency cooperation by involving investigators and prosecutors of the MoJ and investigators of the Financial Investigating Unit (FIU) and the Liberia Revenue Authority (LRA) in joint training and coordination during investigation.
The capacity assessment of the investigation and prosecution personnel at LACC and other agencies indicated the need for strengthening their financial investigation skills to effectively investigate and prosecute corruption crimes. LACC has to date undertaken basic trainings on integrated financial investigations. Further training is required to build skills to consistently and adequately apply financial investigation tools and to carry out seizure and confiscation of proceeds of crime.
LPAC will contract a team of one expat (Financial Investigation Team Leader) and one local consultant (Liberian Expert) to develop and implement the Financial Investigation training.
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE: November 2016 – February 2017
LOE: 20 work days.
\Please note: Only Liberian citizens are eligible for this position.**
Position Summary:
The Liberian Expert will work with the Team Leader and the LPAC Prosecution & Investigation Specialist to build through training the capacity and skills of the investigators and prosecutors on LACC, MoJ, FIU, and LRA in conducting financial investigations. A total of up to 20 expert working days is authorized by this consultancy in November 2016 – February 2017.
The training should advance the investigators' skills from the basics of financial investigations to an operational level. It should focus on the practical aspects of conducting a successful complex financial investigation in corruption and money laundering offenses. The training should include methods of obtaining and analyzing bank records, working with foreign legal systems, the use of circumstantial evidence in financial cases, asset recovery mechanisms and methods of proving elements of the crime.
The Liberian Expert will assist the Team Leader with the development and delivering the training program that will use the best mix of interactive sessions and learning techniques including formal lecturing, open group discussions, group work, experiential learning journey through simulated cases, and other learning methodologies.
Through training, participants should:
- Gain new knowledge relating to corruption and financial investigation;
- Learn how to calculate unsupported income and identify and trace assets;
- Understand ways for obtaining information and evidence from foreign jurisdictions;
- Be able to effectively network with expert practitioners investigating financial crimes and other professional working in corruption related fields at a national and international level.
The training must cover, but not limited to, the following topics:
- What is Financial Investigation? - Introduce participants to comprehensive financial investigation process, explain why investigate the financial trails is crucial and the types of crime it can be applied to and the preconditions to apply this investigative method.
- Beginning a Financial Investigation– Maximize the operational identification, retention and confiscation of criminal assets, following a criminal investigation and conviction utilizing all aspects of the procedural law; identify corruption and related organized criminality and its extent, locations of assets, ownership and use of properties, offender's lifestyle, tracking movements.
- Organizing a Financial Investigation– Identify, organize and establish the fundamentals of a financial investigation optimizing the use of criminal legislation and the efficient use of resources to effectively target offenders and offences, and maximize the opportunities for the recovery of criminal assets.
- Banking and Financial Operations - Familiarize with the Liberia bank system and international systems, practices and legal framework. Enable to track banking transactions, determine funds from unknown sources by using different methods of proof.
Responsibilities:
- Assist the Team Leader with the development training curricula for 30-hour training over the course of one week.
- Assist the Team Leader with assembling handout materials for the training including training slides, reading materials, exercises, links for on-line resources, etc.
- Together with the Team Leader conduct two training for up to15 participants each in the course of 2 weeks.
- Report on the results of the training and recommendations for further capacity and skill building.
Only candidates who have been selected for an interview will be contacted. No phone calls, please.
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