International Consultant – Maritime and Riverine Navigation Trainer

Designs and delivers specialised maritime law-enforcement training for UNODC's Global Maritime Crime Programme across Bangladesh, Maldives and Sri Lanka. The consultant develops Visit, Board, Search and Seizure course materials and exercises, strengthens practical navigation, evidence-handling and equipment capabilities, and reports on training outcomes that support safer and more effective maritime interdiction.

• Design and deliver VBSS courses for integrated training-package exercises
• Prepare training materials, practical scenarios, participant assessments and post-training reports
• Train counterparts on specialized VBSS equipment and hidden-compartment searches
• Deliver courses on crime-scene documentation, evidence handling and report writing
• Deliver RHIB maintenance training in Kirinda
• Develop the updated VBSS curriculum with UNODC GMCP staff

• Advanced university degree in criminal justice, criminology, law, political science, management or a related field
• At least seven years of boat-operator experience including navigation
• Maritime or riverine working experience
• Experience training maritime or riverine law-enforcement officers in an international environment
• Proven report-writing skills
• Fluency in oral and written English

• Broad understanding of the maritime situation in the Indian Ocean
• Experience working in South Asia

• Maritime law enforcement
• VBSS training delivery
• Navigation
• Course design
• Crime-scene documentation
• Evidence handling
• Report writing

• Specialized VBSS equipment

• Home-based assignment with travel to Sri Lanka, Maldives and Bangladesh
• Expected duration: 26 August to 16 October 2026