Senior Advisor (Counter-Terrorism)

The Senior Advisor (Counter-Terrorism) provides high-level strategic, operational and advisory support to strengthen Member States counter-terrorism capabilities within their national law enforcement structures. The role involves leading assessments, designing capacity-building initiatives, providing strategic advice, and delivering training to enhance national law enforcement responses to terrorism threats.

Responsibilities

• Lead comprehensive assessments of national law enforcement capacities related to counter-terrorism, identifying operational gaps, institutional weaknesses, and priority areas for intervention, while anticipating emerging threats and challenges.
• Design, implement and oversee targeted technical assistance and capacity-building aimed at strengthening the operational readiness, intervention capabilities, and institutional resilience of national law enforcement entities involved in counter-terrorism efforts.
• Provide high-level strategic advice and mentorship support to national senior law enforcement officials on the development and modernization of organizational structures involved in counter-terrorism efforts, including their operational practices.
• Support national law enforcement services involved in counter-terrorism efforts in developing and refining operational policies, standard operating procedures (SOPs), and guidelines for the response to terrorism-related incidents, including the planning, command and control of CT operations.
• Deliver advanced training and mentoring to senior officers and specialized units within national law enforcement institutions contributing to CT efforts.
• Promote the integration of human rights standard, accountability principles and gender-sensitive approaches across all activities supported by the Facility, ensuring these also become reflected in the institutions’ practice related to which advice and mentoring is being provided by the expert.
• Prepare a variety of high-quality, written substantive outputs, including analyses, presentations, training materials, summary reports, related to their assignments.

Requirements

• Advanced university degree (master's degree or equivalent), preferably in security studies, international relations, public administration, or any related field with ten (10) years of relevant experience is required; or First-level university degree (bachelor's degree or equivalent) with twelve (12) years of relevant experience is required.
• Graduation from a police or gendarmerie senior staff college is required.
• Experience holding senior command positions, preferably at the rank of police superintendent / colonel or above in an operational role within a law enforcement institution contributing to national counter-terrorism efforts.
• Minimum of five (5) years of experience working on counter-terrorism, preferably in an international policing context is required.
• Expertise in building operational law enforcement capacity of units involved in counter terrorism response, preferably while ensuring compliance with international laws, human rights standards, and ethical guidelines of operational units is required.
• Experience working internationally with law enforcement/security organizations is desired.
• Experience in designing and providing technical assistance to a range of audiences, including senior law enforcement officials within institutions contributing to national counter-terrorism efforts, is desired.
• Experience working in a multilateral or regional organization would be an asset.
• Experience working with law enforcement/security organizations in Africa would be an asset.
• Experience working in post-conflict or complex settings would be an asset.

Skills

• Counter Terrorism
• Law Enforcement Operations
• Law Enforcement Capacity Building
• International Policing
• Strategic Advisory
• Training Delivery
• Technical Assistance Design
• International Law Compliance
• International Human Rights Standards
• Ethical Guidelines
• Senior Command Experience
• Police Leadership
• Security Studies
• International Relations
• Public Administration
• Post-Conflict Operations
• Multilateral Organization Experience
• Regional Organization Experience
• Law Enforcement in Africa

Languages

English, Arabic, French, Spanish, Russian