Local Consultant – National Strategy against Organized Crime

Supports Sierra Leone to develop a national strategy against organized crime. The consultant conducts strategic analysis, guides an inter-agency working group, facilitates consultations, drafts objectives and activities, and builds implementation and evaluation frameworks grounded in human rights.

Department: Global Programme on Implementing the Organized Crime Convention

• Collect evidence and analyse organized crime markets, actors and vulnerabilities
• Guide establishment and operation of an inter-agency strategy working group
• Draft objectives, sub-objectives and activities for the national strategy
• Facilitate working-group meetings, workshops and multistakeholder consultation
• Develop an implementation mechanism and monitoring and evaluation framework
• Revise the strategy using government and stakeholder input
• Mainstream gender and human rights across the final strategy

• Advanced university degree in law, criminology, crime prevention, monitoring and evaluation or a related field, or first degree with two additional years of experience
• At least seven years of policy-development experience, including policies against organized crime
• Knowledge of transnational organized crime, its drivers, markets, vulnerabilities and stakeholder roles, and UNTOC
• Experience developing monitoring and evaluation frameworks
• Fluent English with excellent drafting and communication skills

• Home-based consultancy from 1 September 2026 to 31 March 2027
• May require travel within Sierra Leone