The seconded official 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 official shall be entitled, throughout the period of secondment, to a displacement allowance and travel expenses (cf. in particular Article 23 of Committee of Ministers’ Resolution Res (2012)2 for further information).

The seconded official will provide expert assistance to the Action against Crime Department 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 Head of Action against Crime Department and the Executive Secretary of MONEYVAL, the seconded official performs all or a combination of the following duties:

- Providing expert assistance in the planning and implementation of the MONEYVAL evaluation programme, as set out in MONEYVAL’s Rules of Procedure, including:
o 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 evaluations 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;
o 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;
o 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 finalising 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 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 MONEYVAL through representation and participation to meetings in the Council of Europe and other fora.

Please note that the seconded official may be required to perform other duties not listed in the call for candidates.

Qualifications:
Higher education degree at master level (2nd cycle of the Bologna process framework of qualifications for the European Higher Education Area) or professional qualification equivalent to this in a relevant field (e.g.  law, accountancy, financial management, economics, auditing).

Experience:
Has a good knowledge of international anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) standards, ideally based on relevant experience gained in working on AML/CFT issues domestically.

Language requirements: 
Very good knowledge of English. Knowledge of French would be considered an asset.

Nationality: 
Nationality of one of the 47 Council of Europe member states.

Council of Europe staff members adhere to the values Professionalism, Integrity and Respect.

Essential:
› Professional and technical expertise
- has good knowledge of the Council of Europe’s organs and institutions, cooperation programmes, convention mechanisms, standards and working methods;
- understands budgetary and financial administration;
- can use current IT tools, including management software.
› Drafting skills
› Organisational and contextual awareness
› Analysis and problem solving
› Concern for quality
› Teamwork and co-operation
› Planning and work organisation
› Results orientation

Desirable:
› Initiative
› Negotiation
› Vision and Strategic Insight

For more information, please refer to the Competency Framework of the Council of Europe.

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.

It is against this background that the Committee of Experts on the Evaluation of Anti-Money Laundering Measures (MONEYVAL) was established in 1997. In 2010, MONEYVAL was granted its own Statute by the Committee of Ministers and from 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), the United Kingdom Crown Dependencies of Guernsey, Jersey and the Isle of Man, as well as the United Kingdom Overseas Territory of Gibraltar.

For further information: https://www.coe.int/en/web/moneyval