Secondment Coordinator

**Publication Starting Date**:Aug 2, 2025

**Location**: Lyon, France

**Company**:Interpol

**Vacancy Notice**1201**

INTERPOL is the world’s largest international police organization, with 196 Member Countries. Created in 1923, it facilitates cross-border police co-operation, and supports and assists all organizations, authorities, and services whose mission is to prevent or combat international crime.

Job Title: SECONDMENT Coordinator - Crimes Against Children
Reporting To: Head of Crimes Against Children
Location: Lyon
Type of contract: Secondment
Duration (in months): 36.00
Grade: 4
Number of post: 1
Level of Security screening: Basic

**SUMMARY OF THE ASSIGNED DUTIES,**

**INCLUDING GOALS AND OBJECTIVES OF THE POST**

The Executive Directorate for Police Services (EDPS) oversees all INTERPOL’s police activities and criminal databases. The Organized and Emerging Crime (OEC) Directorate within EDPS focuses primarily on operational activities, including supporting member countries to carry out transnational operations, and also provides investigative support to member countries. The Vulnerable Communities (VCO) Sub-Directorate focuses on three crime areas: Crimes against Children (CAC), Human Trafficking and Smuggling of Migrants (HTSM).

INTERPOL’s role focuses on supporting police agencies in developing an intelligence model that is suited to their needs and capabilities, foster understanding in senior and middle police management of analytical techniques and their added value to investigations. INTERPOL also provides direct analytical support when needed to any member country through dedicated analytical components at each of the Regional Bureaus.

Under the overall direction of the Assistant Director, VCO, and the CAC Head of Unit, the Coordinator is responsible for the daily management of the CAC activities, coordinating implementation with all directorates and components of the General Secretariat, working group/conferences, INTERPOL member countries, National Central Bureaus (NCBs) and other law enforcement entities. The Coordinator oversees and manages a number of CAC staff, providing them with daily guidance, ensuring the proper implementation of the policies and decisions, and the quality and timeliness of the deliverables in compliance with the Organization’s priorities.

He/she is the Organization’s plays a central role in coordinating the activities of the CAC activities, and is expected to provide advice to the Assistant Director and the hierarchy regarding the further development of CAC. He/she ensures the written analytical/operational studies, status reports, oral presentations/speeches to be delivered during outside conferences, internal/developmental training needs assessments, and any other relevant pro-active issue pertaining to CAC.

**PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND ACTIVITIES**

**DUTY 1: Project coordination**
- Implement the coordination of CAC activities as approved by the hierarchy, and in compliance with the established planning.
- Take charge of the coordination of any ad hoc missions, as decided by the hierarchy, to ensure the smooth handling of CAC within the Organization.
- Pro-actively detect any implementation issues and suggest to the hierarchy any relevant refinement to the planning and/or workflow organization, in order to ensure the Organization can achieve the expected results in CAC.
- Personally take charge of some of the planned tasks, especially of the utmost complexity with respect to the incumbent specialized expertise in CAC.

**DUTY 2: Staff Management**
- Provide daily guidance to the Crimes against Children staff, for the staff to perform the missions as required.
- Monitor the quality and timeliness of the Staff’s work, in compliance with the planning and any relevant policy/rule.
- Identify mentoring and training needs for the staff to continuously maintain adequate education in connection with the mission handled.
- Assess the Crimes against Children’ staff in a timely and objective manner. Conduct formal performance appraisals of staff, as required and defined by INTERPOL’s staff rules.
- Recommend to the hierarchy any refinement of the workflow/ working methods, aiming at constantly improving the outputs produced by the Unit.
- Monitor the use of human/financial resources and regularly report to the Head of unit/budget holder.

**DUTY 3: Pro-active guidance and analytical duties**
- Design and implement all actions for the project delivery.
- Ensure planning, coordination and proofreading of analytical reports prepared by the analysts.
- Establish the planning and expected deliverables in order to meet decisions taken with the hierarchy and the external donors.
- Be responsible for project reporting, as required by INTERPOL. Regularly meet with the main stakeholders and provide progress reports.
- Prepare/co-ordinate the preparation of written studies for the hierarchy, that can either encompass a status/statistics on the on-going operational/analytical activi