View Vacancy – Project Advisor to the Embassy Attaché

The British Embassy Tunis is seeking to appoint Project Advisor to the Embassy Attaché grade B3 (L) to start in February 2021.

Main purpose of the Job:

To provide advisory and assistance to the law enforcement attaché at the British Embassy in Tunis in support of UK and host priorities. To assist with the training of law enforcement officers across the region and maintain records of all training delivery provided by the British Embassy to host partners.

To maintain close relationships with law enforcement colleagues and be the point of contact for their interaction with UK law enforcement. To receive senstive information from partners, write concise reports to the project lead and treat that information with a high level of discretion and integrity. Support the project lead at meetings with senior government officials and senior law enforcement officials and provide high quality interpretaion often using technical language.

Monitor open source information across North Africa and report to the project lead on factors influencing UK priorities in the region, for example, human trafficking, people smuggling and illicit finance.

Support the project team within the Embassy with a range of administrative tasks which may include activity such as hotel and flight bookings and asisting high level delegattions with travel assistance both to Tunisia and European destinations. The job holder must be prepared to travel themselves both within Tunisia and abroad as required in support of the Project Team.

Main duties and responsibilities:

• To conduct arrangements for the creation of a project :to include
• Training delivery arrangements
• Managing the vetting process for the project
• Equipment order and installation, ensuring compliance with NCA policies
• Maintenance of equipment registers
• Providing detailed accounting of spending to HMG standards
• Organise various events;
• Publishing and Maintaining all policies and procedures
• Analyse data produced from Project and present results / findings;
• Carry out general financial administration including the payment of invoices;
• Attend meetings as and when required in support of attaché to include translation
• Assist in maintaining host nation relationships.
• Assist the Local Liaison Assistant when required
• Process requests from both Tunisian and UK law enforcement agencies
• Conduct open source research and analysis as needed

The above list is not exhaustive and the jobholder will be required to be flexible and take on other ad hoc tasks as required.

Key competencies required:

• Collaborating and Partnering – People skilled in this area create and maintain positive, professional and trusting working relationships with a wide range of people within and outside the Civil Service to help get business done. 
• Demonstrating Resilience – This is about helping our people to build resilience in international roles, supporting their ability to adapt to working in difficult and varied international environments and to bounce back from crises and setbacks in these contexts.
• Engaging Internationally – Effectiveness in this area is about leading internationally, engaging our staff, contacts and international partners to help deliver UK Government objectives. Understanding UK Government aims in the wider UK and international context and developing productive relationships with those external contacts and partners to help deliver UK objectives. 

• Excellent spoken and written English, French and Arabic;
• Excellent organisation skills with a keen eye for detail;
• Excellent persuasion, guidance and negotiation skills required;
• Good IT skills in particular the ability to order and analyse data utilising the Microsoft Office Suite;
• A high level of discretion and integrity.
• A flexible approach which may involve work and travel outside core hours.