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Post Title Lead Consultant: Training

Agency: UNODC Regional Centre for East Asia and the Pacific

Country of Assignment Home-based with travel to –

Thailand – 1st Expert Group Meeting Vietnam – 2nd Expert Group Meeting Poland – FRONTEX Austria – UNODC HQ

Duration A maximum of 61 (sixty-one) working days from 1 June to 30 November 2012

1) GENERAL BACKGROUND

Border control and security in many developing countries is weak, leading to porous borders that can be exploited by criminals such as human smugglers, human traffickers, narcotics smugglers, arms smugglers, bulk cash smugglers and terrorist travel facilitators. Among the reasons for this weak border controls are lack of resources, training and professional development, which can be exacerbated by corruption.

Border control in most countries - developing or developed - falls between a number of key enforcement agencies - military, specific border agency, immigration, national police, and in some cases maritime.

Many developing countries do not have border service academies dedicated to producing a professional, knowledgeable corps of border security officials, or if they have one, their curriculum may be outmoded or inappropriate to meet today’s challenges and threats. For instance, some /immigration/customs inspection services are part of the national police and the bulk of their training may be in areas other than border inspection and control. In some developing countries, border control officials, whether inspectors at an airport or border guards at a green border are at the bottom of the pile in terms of national law enforcement funding, training, professionalism, expertise, capabilities and status.

Many donor countries which provide technical assistance and border training assistance do it on an ad hoc basis, bilateral basis or teach only basic singular classes such as document

inspection. While this is good for individual trainers and agencies’ metrics this much of this type of assistance only has a short-term limited effect and really does little to the fundamental and institutional weaknesses in developing countries border control infrastructure and capabilities, or build long-term capacity that the recipient country can itself build maintain and build upon.

For instance, donor countries should not teach basic skills when the recipient country can teach those skills with a little assistance. By assisting recipient countries to build their capacity to train their own personnel in basic skills and develop a professional honest border security institution, donor countries can devote their limited resources to providing higher order technical assistance and training.

2) OBJECTIVES OF THE ASSIGNMENT

To create a generic Model Border Service Academy Guide that can be used by a wide variety of stakeholders to improve existing education systems or help build new ones. It will provide an ideal, generic curriculum that countries will be able to implement and maintain with a little guidance or assistance. It will help develop recipient country’s long-term sustainable capacity, build and maintain an effective, professional border guard/immigration/customs service by helping them create or improve a national border service academy (or training center).

It will produce Model Border Service Academy Guide training plans and a curriculum framework that donors and technical assistance providers, such as UNODC, can use to plan assistance and training programs, and that developing countries can use to plan, design and build their own border service (police/immigration/customs) academies or curriculum and create an enabling environment for modern and effective integrated border management.

The final product should be generic and flexible enough to be useful in different recipient country circumstances.

The model guide will be organized in modular sections – including – but not limited to:

1. Physical Facility and Infrastructure Requirements 2. IT Requirements 3. Support Requirements / Staffing 4. Teaching Faculty Requirements / Staffing 5. Staff Rules / Regulations 6. Standard Operating Procedures

(The above elements will be undertaken by the Training Academy Consultant)

(The below elements will be undertaken by the Border Control Training Consultant / Lead Consultant)

7. Curriculum Elements a. eLearning

b. Traditional Training c. Training of Trainers 8. Staff Development 9. Monitoring and Evaluation

In those cases where physical infrastructure already exists, the overall approach of the model guide will be towards supporting integration - given that the recipient States are likely to have little / no resources to put into something new, but no doubt have already invested in structures like army, border guard, police, customs, coastguard etc.

In such an approach, assistance providers can focus on assisting recipient countries better utilize what they have already invested in. UNODC currently adopts this approach in the Border Liaison Office projects and in the capacity building on cross-border operations on Afghanistan-Pakistan, Afghanistan-Iran borders and in the Central Asia projects.

By remaining generic, such an approach would encourage supportive capacity building interventions, which would be kept 'uniform' through an agreed upon formula or outline in format.

3) SCOPE OF WORK

The incumbent will carry out the following activities, jointly with the Training Academy Infrastructure Consultant:

 Research the material currently available which might be suitable (and utilizable/ available) for inclusion in the manual.  Upon guidance from UNODC research suitable personnel to participate in the 1st Expert Working Group (provisionally planned for July 2012), including experts on the establishment and maintenance of law enforcement / training academies and representatives of potential end users of the Guide.  Co-chair the 1st Meeting of the Expert Working Group (with the Academy Development Expert), to include discussion / assessment of : o Training needs (in collaboration with a range of stakeholders, possibly including NGO partners); o Appropriate training methods, materials and equipment needs – including the results of the research into available material; o Identification of gaps in available material; o Training management and evaluation methods and systems; o Sustainability of training programs, and identification of sustainability strategies.

 Conduct a desk study to take forward all the above, taking into account the conclusions of the Meeting, and from that develop an appropriate initial draft of the generic Model Border Service Academy Guide as outlined in Section 2 above.  Co-chair the 2nd Meeting of the Expert Working Group (with the Academy

Development Expert), provisionally planned for October 2012. At this meeting the draft Model Border Service Academy Guide, will be presented and feedback received from the attending experts.  Produce a final version of the Model Border Service Academy Guide.

4) DURATION OF ASSIGNMENT, DUTY STATION AND EXPECTED PLACES OF TRAVEL

A maximum of 61 (sixty-one) working days from 1 June to 30 November 2012.

Home-Based Assignment with travel to Vietnam, Thailand, Austria and Poland. . The Consultant will perform his/her functions under the direct guidance of the Technical Advisor and the overall management of the UNODC Country Manager for Vietnam.

UNODC will provide to the consultant required access to the relevant substantive files and material.

The consultant will undertake consultations and coordination with UNODC officials and UNODC implementing partners through telecommunication and email. Material will be submitted via email where suitable.

Note:

Air tickets for official missions will be provided by UNODC Regional Centre with 80% of advance DSA once travel authorization is approved. Travel settlement of remaining 20% DSA and other official expenses borne during the missions will be completed after the missions.

It is understood that the consultant would not hold UNODC responsible for any unforeseen or untoward incident during the duration of the consultancy service. It is recommended that the consultant secure his/her own insurance coverage during the conduct of the consultancy service.

5) FINAL PRODUCTS

At the end of the contract the incumbent will have produced:

Deliverable 1 • Catalogue of currently available material relating to : o eLearning o Traditional Training o Training of Trainers

In the thematic area of Border Control • Successfully co-chaired the 1st Meeting of the Expert Working Group. • Submission of the above.

Deliverable 2 • Desk study conducted and from that a satisfactory initial detailed draft of the generic Model Border Service Academy Guide developed as outlined in Section 2 above. • Successfully co-chaired the 2nd Meeting of the Expert Working Group at which the draft Model Border Service Academy Guide will have been presented and feedback received from the attending experts. • Submission of the above.

Deliverable 3 • The detailed final version of the Model Border Service Academy Guide incorporating all feedbacks and comments.

6) PROVISION OF MONITORING AND PROGRESS CONTROLS

The consultant will work under the day to day supervision of the Technical Advisor and the overall management of the UNODC Country Manager for Vietnam.

7) DEGREE OF EXPERTISE AND QUALIFICATIONS

Education • University degree in law, law enforcement, international relations, political science, public administration or related field, or the equivalent combination of education and experience in any of the above fields.

Required Professional Experience • A minimum of 10 years training experience, preferably within the field of law enforcement/border security; • Experience in international capacity-building projects focusing on training development; • Experience in the design and creation of operational manuals/reference material; • Experience in the design, delivery and evaluation of training material including full curricula.

Other skills • A sound grasp of UNODC’s mandates; • Fluency in English, with excellent oral and written communication skills.

8) HOW TO APPLY

Interested applicants should submit the following documents:

(a) Letter of interest - not exceeding one page - clearly stating suitability for the position and consultancy fee .

(b) UN Personal History Form (can be downloaded from http://www.unodc.org/eastasiaandpacific/en/who-we-are/work-opportunities.html) and detailed curriculum vitae based on the criteria stated above.

Please submit the application by e-mail to: .

Application deadline is 12 May 2012.

Note:

(a) Please clearly indicate the position you are applying for. (b) Failure to submit supporting documents as specified in the announcement will result in an incomplete application. Applicants who submit incomplete applications will NOT be considered. (c) Applicants employed as a civil servant or government official, whose applications are successful, will be required to provide a letter from their employer indicating no objection to paid employment with UNODC for a period of unpaid leave from current employer.

Due to the volume of applications, only candidates under positive consideration will be notified.

Date of issuance: 27 April 2012