Specialist Advisor
hace 1 mes
**Specialist Advisor (Anti-Financial Crimes)**:
**Location**:
- Panama City, Panama**Remote Work**:
- No**Clearance**:
- RSO**Work Status**:
- Full-Time**Duties and Responsibilities**:
- Assists INL in analyzing and addressing currently opaque financial practices that permit money launderers and other criminals to misuse Panama’s financial sector.
- Works closely with the Panama Attorney General’s Office, Unidad de Analisis Financiero (UAF), and others to develop the capacity to investigate and prosecute financial crimes.
- Operates under the guidance of the INL Anti-Financial Crimes Program Manager and routinely communicate on proposed trainings, progress of mentoring activities, developments, results, and challenges, and provide information to INL Panama to complete weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual requirements.
- Works most closely with the US Embassy INL Panama Director, the AFC Program Manager, the Justice Sector Program Manager, the INL-funded UK British Crown Prosecutor, the Contracting Officer (CO), and the Contracting Officer’s Representative (COR).
- Maintains professional, open, timely, and effective communication and coordination with the INL Panama team, other INL consultants, and, as appropriate, with the INL/WHP Director and Deputy Director on issues falling under the scope of work, resulting in a relationship that proactively addresses potential problems with flexible, workable solutions.
- The AFCA will implement and direct INL approved justice sector technical assistance activities to strengthen Panama’s efforts to comply with international anti-crime norms and obligations, particularly in the areas of financial crimes, anti-money laundering (AML), and asset recovery.
- This position has four primary components:
- Project Component 1: Organizational Assessment and Assistance - The objective of this project component is to assess Panamanian capacity to investigate and prosecute financial crimes, including but not limited to money laundering, corruption, organized crime, government procurements, tax fraud and other transnational crimes to assist the GOP to improve organizationally.
- Project Component 2: Build Capacity to Investigate and Prosecute Money Laundering Cases - The objective of this project component is to provide training and technical assistance to investigators, prosecutors, and judges on the investigation and prosecution of money laundering cases and transnational crimes, including expanding the financial crimes curriculum. Technical assistance will include use of MLAT requests, improve interviewing techniques, and teach advanced trial strategy and advocacy.
- Project Component 3: Promote Exchange of Information. The objective of this project component is to promote the effective exchange of information and evidence in criminal cases by both the Panamanian and American law enforcement communities. This includes the use of the Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty (MLAT), as well as the establishment of a fully functioning central authority within the Procurator General’s Office.
- Project Component 4: Case Based Mentoring. The objective of this component is to mentor Panamanian prosecutors, investigators and judges on case studies to enhance the quality of prosecutions with a particular focus on Panama’s newly formed specialized AML prosecutor’s unit and organized crime unit.
- Assists INL in the development of program strategies and implementation plans within the rubric of current U.S. assistance and Panamanian national strategies, making recommendations to adjust those programs and strategies throughout.
- Analysis of and advice on the implementation of Panama’s new anti-money laundering laws and other related criminal statutes, codes, laws, and regulations.
- Assess for INL the GOP’s financial crimes units organizational structure, policies, procedures, regulations, vetting, and selection mechanisms
- Implement and direct INL approved justice sector technical assistance activities to strengthen Panama’s efforts to comply with international anti-crime norms and obligations, particularly in the areas of financial crimes, anti-money laundering (AML), and asset recovery
- Assist INL to identify knowledge, skills, abilities (KSAs) required for positions within the GOP’s financial crimes units and develop job descriptions based on requisite KSAs
- Assist INL to help the GOP’s financial crimes units to develop operational and administrative policies and procedures related to financial crimes investigations management.
- Provides technical assistance, case-based mentoring, and consultations in areas that could include freezing/seizing assets, financial fraud, public corruption, organized crime, extradition, and the use of mutual legal assistance treaties (MLATs).
- Works with the INL/Panama Justice Team to coordinate programming for the financial investigations/money laundering curriculum for criminal justice practitioners.
- Attends working groups and
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