The seconded officials shall remain in employment or be paid by the member State from which he/she is seconded throughout the period of secondment, and shall receive no salary and no social and medical cover from the Council of Europe. The seconded officials will not receive displacement allowance nor reimbursement of travelling expenses by the Organisation as set out in Article 23 of Committee of Ministers’ Resolution Res (2012)2.

Seconded officials will provide expert assistance to the Directorate of Information Society and Action against Crime in the implementation of the MONEYVAL mutual evaluation programme, which supports States in fulfilling their commitments in accordance with international legal, financial and law enforcement standards on money laundering and terrorist financing and in compliance with Council of Europe conventions, regulations, standards and values.

Under the authority of the Director of Information Society and Action against Crime and the Executive Secretary of MONEYVAL, seconded officials perform all or a combination of the following duties:

- Providing secretariat services in the planning and implementation of the MONEYVAL evaluation visit programme, as set out in MONEYVAL’s Rules of Procedure, including:
- prior to the evaluation visit, conducting research and analytical work on information and data submitted by the evaluated jurisdiction to assess compliance against the relevant international standards , advising jurisdictions undergoing evaluation where submitted material needs supplementing, advising on the agenda for the on-site visits and generally supervising the administrative organisation and co-ordination of on-site visits;
- accompanying the evaluation team on the on-site visits to advise and guide them, in particular, on relevant lines of questioning, the up-to-date interpretation of the international standards, to ensure all relevant issues are properly covered consistently with other evaluations, and to prepare a key findings document on-site for submission at the conclusion of the visit;
- after the on-site visit to take responsibility for the finalisation of the evaluation team’s report for submission to the jurisdiction undergoing evaluation, in line with the timelines and processes set out in the procedures, , preparing related plenary documents, assisting the evaluators and the MONEYVAL committee in plenary discussions, and finalizing adopted reports and summaries with a view to their publication.
- Monitoring countries’ progress, drafting follow-up reports, and other analytical reports on relevant topics as necessary.
- Providing general secretariat support to MONEYVAL meetings and preparing summaries of meetings.
- Conducting research and other notes on policy and legal developments related to money laundering and terrorist financing issues.
- Drafting accurate and timely briefing notes required internally on the work of MONEYVAL.
- Contributing to the visibility of the MONEYVAL programme through representation and participation to meetings in the Council of Europe and other fora.
- Promoting Council of Europe values internally and externally.

- Vision on international affairs: awareness of the international political, economic, social and cultural context; organizational awareness.
- Managerial skills: management of programmes and coaching of others.
- Professional and technical competencies:
o professional expertise: has a good knowledge of international anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) international standards, ideally based on relevant experience gained in working on AML/CFT issues domestically;
o has good knowledge of the Council of Europe’s organs and institutions, cooperation programmes, convention mechanisms, standards and working methods;
o understands budgetary and financial administration;
o can use current IT tools, including management software;
o planning and work organisation, information seeking, analytical thinking, problem-solving and judgment skills;
o ability to work under pressure in an international environment.
- Interpersonal skills: service and client orientation; team working; relationship building and networking; advising; negotiating and diplomacy.
- Communication and linguistic skills: communication, listening, presentation and writing skills; very good knowledge of one of the official languages (English or French) and good knowledge of the other; knowledge of other European languages would be an asset; can express oneself, present and draft clearly and concisely and convincingly in English or French.
- Personal attitudes: Initiative and responsibility, result orientation and sense of continuous improvement, concern for quality and efficiency, adaptability, self management and development, organizational alignment.
- Personal values: integrity, loyalty, respect of discretion and confidentiality respect for diversity.

Money laundering, i.e. the process through which criminals give an apparently legitimate origin to proceeds of crime, is an expanding and increasingly international phenomenon. It may particularly affect economies which are undergoing transformation and which offer significant opportunities for foreign investment. The financial regulatory framework, both in banking and non-banking sectors, is often less stringent in these countries than in others, which make them vulnerable to money laundering operations. Given the diverse illegal activities, including money laundering, of organized crime groups in some of these countries and, in exceptional cases, their alleged infiltration into entire national economies, it seems that it is in their vital interests to create and maintain a credible financial system capable of detecting, preventing and controlling money laundering. The establishment of an efficient anti money laundering system is due in many countries to the enforcement of national and international anti-money laundering measures and their regular monitoring through international bodies, such as the Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering (FATF).

It is against this background that the Committee of Experts on the Evaluation of Anti-Money Laundering Measures – MONEYVAL (formerly PC-R-EV) was established in 1997. In October 2010, MONEYVAL was granted its own Statute by the Committee of Ministers and from 1 January 2011 became an independent monitoring mechanism reporting direct to the Committee of Ministers. This evaluation and peer pressure mechanism reviews the anti-money laundering measures and measures to counter the financing of terrorism in: a) member states of the Council of Europe which are not members of the FATF; b) member states of the Council of Europe which become members of the FATF and request to continue to be evaluated by MONEYVAL; c) member states of the Council of Europe which are members of the FATF and which request to be evaluated by MONEYVAL as regards European standards not already covered by the FATF or any other evaluation body; and subject to a decision by the Committee of Ministers, d) member states of the Council of Europe which are members of the FATF, with respect to the territory(ies) for whose international relations they are responsible or on whose behalf they are authorised to give undertakings, provided these territories are not evaluated by the FATF, upon the relevant member state’s request that its territory(ies) be evaluated by MONEYVAL; e) any applicant state for membership of the Council of Europe and any other non-member state of the Council of Europe which is not a member of the FATF, provided the interested state makes a request in writing to the Secretary General in which it undertakes to participate fully in the evaluation procedure, to comply with its results and to contribute to its costs.

To date, are subject to its evaluation procedures and processes 28 Council of Europe member states, Israel, the Holy See (including the Vatican City State) and the United Kingdom Crown Dependencies of Guernsey, Jersey and the Isle of Man.

For further information: http://www.coe.int/t/dghl/monitoring/moneyval/