Senior Analyst or Senior Expert - Private Sector Engagement - Environmental Crime

Contract Duration

One year with the possibility of extension

Location

Flexible; open to negotiation. Some travel required

Language Proficiency

English - essential

Arabic, Mandarin, French, Spanish, Portuguese - desirable

Experience

Substantial experience in private sector engagement on supply chain due dilligence or environmental crime; depth of expertise prioritised over years

Background

The Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC) is an independent civil society organization headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, with a globally dispersed Secretariat working across 42 countries. Founded in 2013, GI-TOC brings together a global network of more than 750 independent experts and a team of over 130 staff dedicated to understanding and responding to organized crime. Through research, analysis, policy engagement and support to civil society actors, GI-TOC works to deepen understanding of organized crime and strengthen effective, rights-based responses. In 2024, GI-TOC produced 167 publications and reached more than 713,000 website users worldwide.

The GI-TOC works to:

• Identify, analyse and map criminal trends and patterns of regional instability, and their impact on illicit flows, governance, development, security, conflict and the rule of law.
• Connect and support civil society actors working on organized crime and corruption, and on their links to instability and conflict.
• Strengthen local monitoring and analysis of national, regional and international organized crime and insecurity trends.

Job Summary

The GI-TOC is seeking a Senior Analyst or Senior Expert for Private Sector Engagement to lead its work mobilising corporations, financial institutions, and trade actors to deny environmental criminals access to markets, finance, and supply chains. This is the organisation's primary expert voice on private sector strategy in relation to environmental crime — a role that combines deep knowledge of supply chain due diligence with the relationship-building and coalition-building skills needed to turn that knowledge into changed practice.

The role sits within the “From roots to enrichment: a global response to forest crime” initiative (NICFI-funded) but has a broader mandate across the GI-TOC's environmental crime portfolio. The primary focus is forest crime: working with companies, financial institutions, commodity traders, and industry bodies to close the regulatory and behavioural gaps that allow illegal timber, cattle, and gold to move through legitimate supply chains through better due-diligence and audit systems. The role also contributes to GI-TOC's wildlife and waste trafficking programmes and engages with the tech sector on detection and due diligence innovation. It complements and coordinates with an existing private-sector engagement through the Extractives team.

A distinctive part of this role involves engagement with actors in global commodity trade ecosystems — including regions where informal networks and relationship-based commercial culture require culturally adapted approaches and diplomatic skill.

This is a senior individual contributor role with no line management responsibilities. The candidate should be capable of working with significant autonomy, setting their own engagement priorities within a framework agreed with the Director, and operating comfortably across multiple environmental crime types and stakeholder communities simultaneously. This role carries growth potential and individuals about to identify and cultivate new funding streams could build this into a larger programme over time.

Working closely with

• GI-TOC's Director of Environmental Crime
• GI-TOC’s Director of Extractives
• The Head of Forest Crime and overall lead for the “From Roots to Enrichment”, and the project's country Observatory and investigative teams
• GI-TOC’s wildlife and waste trafficking leads
• GI-TOC's multilateral engagement team, particularly on international trade and cooperation workstreams
• External partners: commodity companies, financial institutions, industry bodies, tech companies, trading associations, and relevant regulatory bodies
• Regional liaisons and partners in key global trade hub economies

Key Responsibilities

Forest Crime: Private Sector Strategy and Engagement (Primary Focus)

• Lead the GI-TOC's engagement with the private sector on forest crime — developing and executing a strategy to shift corporate and financial institution behaviour through a combination of evidence, relationship-building, training, and convening
• Draw on investigative outputs from the PILLAR project (criminal typologies, supply chain maps, financial flow analysis) to build targeted risk typologies and due diligence tools for companies operating in forest-risk commodity supply chains (timber, cattle, soy, palm oil, gold) in Central Africa and Indonesia, and to align the work of partners in Latin America
• Engage directly with commodity companies, financial institutions, and traders on supply chain vulnerabilities and due diligence implementation — including through closed-door briefings, diagnostic sessions, and bilateral engagement with legal, compliance, and sustainability teams
• Monitor and track corporate and financial institution policy and practice changes resulting from GI-TOC engagement; maintain records aligned with project MEAL requirements
• Identify and work through industry associations, investor coalitions, and sustainability platforms where collective action can amplify individual company commitments

Across the GI-TOC Environmental Commodities Portfolio

• As required, contribute to GI-TOC's other environmental commodities work by supporting interventions where private sector actors — logistics companies, online platforms, financial intermediaries — are identified whose systems are exploited by criminal traders
• Engage with tech companies on their role in detecting and preventing environmental commodities trafficking, including through data-sharing, platform governance, and traceability innovation, with a particular focus on wildlife
• Ensure lessons from forest crime private sector engagement inform and enrich GI-TOC's approach across environmental crime types

Multi-Stakeholder Coalition Building and Policy Engagement

• Support the development and maintenance of multi-stakeholder coalitions that bring together private sector actors, civil society, governments, and international bodies around shared commitments to tackle environmental commodities trafficking
• Engage key stakeholders in major global trade hubs to build accountability for environmental commodities flows, working in ways that are adapted to local commercial culture and relationship norms
• Contribute to international regulatory debates on supply chain due diligence by providing expert input on private sector dynamics, barriers to compliance, and effective incentive structures
• Produce analytical outputs — briefings, reports, typologies, good practice guides — that serve as the basis for GI-TOC's engagement with companies, regulators, and multilateral forums

Required Experience and Qualifications

The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate the following experience and skills:

• Substantial experience engaging the private sector on supply chain due diligence, environmental crime, or related areas — from within an NGO, think-tank, consulting firm, regulatory body, or the private sector itself
• Deep working knowledge of how environmental crime commodities — particularly forest-risk commodities — move through legitimate supply chains, and where corporate and financial sector actors are most exposed to criminal infiltration
• Demonstrated ability to engage senior corporate and financial institution stakeholders — including compliance, legal, and sustainability teams — and to translate complex crime and risk analysis into commercially intelligible messages
• Experience building or participating in multi-stakeholder coalitions or platforms, and an understanding of what makes private sector collective action succeed or fail
• Familiarity with relevant private sector compliance and due diligence landscapes
• Strong analytical and writing skills — the ability to produce concise, credible, well-evidenced outputs for a sophisticated private sector and policy audience
• Comfort with cross-cultural engagement

Highly Desirable

• Demonstrated ability to work across multiple crime types, particular within environmental commodities trafficking
• Engagement experience with technology companies on detection, data, or platform governance issues
• Direct experience engaging actors in global commodity trade hub economies
• Existing networks among commodity traders, financial institutions, or industry bodies operating in forest-risk supply chains
• Experience identifying and cultivating funding relationships with private sector or philanthropic funders in the environment or governance space

GI-TOC operates a flexible working environment and encourages staff to achieve a suitable work-life balance and supports professional development and learning.

Personal Attributes

• Credible with private sector audiences: you understand their constraints, speak their language, and earn trust without compromising analytical rigour
• Culturally intelligent: you adapt your engagement style to the norms and expectations of actors across different commercial ecosystems, and you know when conventional regulatory framing will close doors rather than open them
• Analytically strong: you can extract actionable insight from complex investigative material and turn it into risk typologies, due diligence tools, and corporate engagement strategies
• A skilled convener: you can design and facilitate high-level dialogues that bring together actors with divergent interests and move them toward shared commitments
• Entrepreneurial: you see opportunities to build and grow the private sector engagement function — through new partnerships, new funding, and new coalitions — and you have the initiative to pursue them
• Self-directing: you manage your own workload across multiple crime types and stakeholder communities with limited supervision, maintaining focus on impact rather than activity

Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

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