Financial Integrity in Football Guide Consultant

The consultant develops UNODC's practical anti-money-laundering guide for European football, mapping experts and beneficiaries, researching regulatory duties and financial-crime risks, drafting and revising the publication, facilitating expert review and incorporating feedback from UNODC and the European Commission.

Department: Programme on Safeguarding Sport from Corruption and Financial Crime

• Map football clubs, agents, regulators, financial-intelligence units and experts
• Develop a stakeholder contact database for the Clean Sheet guide
• Research football money-laundering risks and European compliance obligations
• Draft practical guidance on due diligence, suspicious reporting and internal controls
• Prepare examples addressing transfers, sponsorship, ownership and agent payments
• Organise and participate in an expert review meeting in Vienna
• Incorporate Commission, regulator and practitioner feedback across successive drafts
• Deliver a final publication ready for editing, layout and printing

• Master's degree in law, finance, criminology, political science, public administration or a related discipline, or first university degree with two additional years of qualifying experience
• Experience advising financial-intelligence units, regulators or obliged entities on anti-money-laundering and counter-terrorist-financing compliance
• Expert knowledge of corruption and financial crime in sport, particularly money laundering
• Fluency in oral and written English

• Home-based consultancy from 1 September 2026 to 31 January 2027
• Possible travel includes an expert meeting in Vienna
• Guide is co-funded by UNODC and the European Commission