Local Individual Contractor (Uploading of legislation in the knowledge management portal known as Sharing Electronic Resources and Laws on Crime)

Expected tasks • At least 100 legislative entries or strategies uploaded onto SHERLOC; • At least and 5 cases, with a focus on cases where UNTOC was used as a legal basis for international cooperation where available, uploaded onto SHERLOC; • Documents relating to the Working Group of Governmental Experts on Technical Assistance and the UNDOC COP drafted and formatted.

Vienna HQ and home-based

18 May - 31 July 2026

1. Background of the assignment Further to relevant mandates from the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (COP), UNODC started, in 2010, the development of the knowledge management portal known as SHERLOC (Sharing Electronic Resources and Laws On Crime). It is a UNODC on-going initiative aimed at facilitating the dissemination of information regarding the implementation of the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (UNTOC) and the Protocols thereto. Ever since, SHERLOC has become a practitioner’s tool for police investigators, prosecutors and judges; a monitoring tool for government policy-makers; an awareness-raising tool for the public and media; as well as an information tool for researchers, legal drafters and all those responding to transnational organized crime. It currently hosts six databases: (1) the Database of Legislation, (2) the Case Law Database, (3) the Bibliographic Database, (4) the Directory of Competent National Authorities, (5) the Database of Strategies and (6) the Database on Treaties. Additionally, it hosts the electronic version of the Legislative Guide, whose purpose is to assist States seeking to ratify or implement the Organized Crime Convention, as well as the Education for Universities (Edu4U) webpage, which aims to prevent crime and promote a culture of lawfulness through education activities designed for tertiary levels and hosts the UNODC Teaching Module Series on Organized Crime The Database of Legislation is an electronic repository of laws relevant to the provisions of UNTOC and the Protocols thereto. It is searchable by: (1) country, (2) UNTOC article, (3) crime type, and (4) cross-cutting issues, including on international cooperation in criminal matters. While also enabling access to full legislation documents, the Database of Legislation provides extracts of laws relevant to specific UNTOC articles and crime types, allowing the users to quickly find provisions relating to their search query. The Case Law Database is a comprehensive database allowing users to see how Member States are tackling organized crime cases both operationally and in their courts. It contains jurisprudence, as well as records of successful law enforcement operations with regard to crimes that affect the environment, cybercrime, drug offences, fraud, money laundering, obstruction of justice, participation in an organized criminal group, piracy and maritime crimes, smuggling of migrants, trafficking in firearms, trafficking in cultural property, trafficking in persons, falsified medical product-related crime, corruption and terrorism. The information on cases in this database is presented by country, crime type and cross-cutting issues, including on international cooperation in criminal matters. The above-mentioned databases include summaries and, when available, full court decisions of more than 3,000 cases on transnational organized crime and counter-terrorism, as well as more than 11,000 relevant legal provisions, from all UN Member States and more than 1300 bibliographic abstracts. These can be accessed through: sherloc.unodc.org. The Bibliographic Database is an annotated bibliography providing a synopsis of key articles that are searchable by: (1) country, (2) crime type, and (3) cross cutting issues, including on international cooperation in criminal matters. The Directory of Competent National Authorities contains the central and other competent authorities involved in international cooperation in criminal matters, and designated to receive, respond and process requests pertaining to mutual legal assistance, extradition and transfer of sentenced prisoners, smuggling of migrants, trafficking in firearms, trafficking in cultural property and terrorist cases. The Database, on Strategies, provides access to strategies and plans of actions adopted at national level pertaining to the fifteen different crime types, while a dedicated Database on Treaties provides the ratification status of the UNTOC and the Protocols thereto, as well as of other relevant international instruments. By creating these databases, SHERLOC aims at developing internationally agreed upon legal mechanisms against transnational organized crime, while improving the visibility of successful prosecutions and promoting awareness about the devastating realities of organized crime and terrorism. 2. Purpose of the assignment The purpose of this assignment is to support the Conference Support Section (CSS) of the Organized Crime and Illicit Trafficking Branch (OCB) in its information-gathering efforts on the implementation of the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (UNTOC), by uploading legislative provisions, case law and other pertinent material, as appropriate, onto the SHERLOC knowledge management portal. 3. Specific tasks to be performed by the individual contractor Under the direct supervision of Mr. Colin Craig, Associate Legal Officer, and the overall guidance of Ms. Riikka Puttonen, Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Officer, the individual contractor will perform the following specific tasks: • Upload onto SHERLOC a minimum of 100 legislative provisions or strategies, with a focus on materials relating to international cooperation and crimes that affect the environment, including crimes in the fisheries sector; • Upload onto SHERLOC a minimum of 5 cases ,with a focus on cases where UNTOC was used as a legal basis for international cooperation submitted by Member States; • Review and update the materials available on the SHERLOC treaties database; • Draft SHERLOC webpages for publication, including those relating to international cooperation; • Support the management of the Online Directory of Competent National Authorities (CNA Directory), including the update of information; • Support the preparation and release of the 2025 e-book version of the Directory, in coordination with relevant substantive officers and the Publication Unit; • Support the drafting of documents relating to the Working Group of Governmental Experts on Technical Assistance and the Conference of the Parties to the Organized Crime Convention (UNTOC COP); • Support the work on formatting and collating revisions to the Manual on Mutual Legal Assistance and Extradition for further presentation and submission to the UNTOC COP; and • Provide support during presentations of SHERLOC to member states and individual contributors, including during the Summer School on Transnational Organized Crime.

- A high school degree or equivalent is required; - Some experience in analysis of legislation/ legal research, preferably in the area of crime prevention and criminal justice and/or with a focus on organized crime or closely related issues is required; - Previous experience working with knowledge management portals such as legal databases is required; - Previous work experience in international organizations is desirable; - Previous work experience in supporting intergovernmental processes is desirable; - Previous experience with website content management systems is desirable.

English and French are the working languages of the United Nations Secretariat. For this post, fluency in oral and written English is required. Knowledge of another official United Nations language is an advantage.

Not available.

THE UNITED NATIONS DOES NOT CHARGE A FEE AT ANY STAGE OF THE RECRUITMENT PROCESS (APPLICATION, INTERVIEW MEETING, PROCESSING, OR TRAINING). THE UNITED NATIONS DOES NOT CONCERN ITSELF WITH INFORMATION ON APPLICANTS’ BANK ACCOUNTS.