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Central America – Policy Analyst
About the job
Global Financial Integrity (GFI) is a Washington, DC-based think tank specializing in research, advocacy and advisory services related to illicit financial flows. GFI is a global leader in advocating for transparency in the international financial system as a way to facilitate global economic development and reduce illicit financial flows, money laundering, tax evasion, and corruption.
GFI seeks a talented, motivated individual for the position of Central America – Policy Analyst, to join the Latin America and Caribbean Program. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling-basis.
Qualifications for the position include:
- BA or BS degree in social sciences, international relations, public policy or any other related field. Preferably with a M.A. degree in law, international relations, public policy, or a related field;
- At least 3-5 years of professional experience, preferably at a non-profit or international organization;
- Experience working on issues pertaining to money laundering, transnational crime, tax evasion and/or corruption;
- Strong writing, communications and organizational skills;
- Proactive personality with strong problem-solving skills;
- Experience in open-source research and analysis;
- Goal setting, time management, and attention to detail and deadlines are paramount;
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite;
- Professional proficiency in Spanish and English is required;
- Open to residents and nationals from El Salvador;
- Candidate must be eligible to live and work in their country of residence without GFI visa sponsorship.
Responsibilities include:
- Assist with outreach to relevant stakeholders on policy issues related to AML/CFT;
- Conduct qualitative and quantitative research on illicit financial flows;
- Conduct presentations, trainings and webinars virtually and in-person;
- Engage with local stakeholders and help to coordinate project activities, reports, and administrative tasks;
- Develop advocacy strategies to promote project policy objectives;
- Attend internal and external programmatic meetings;
- Write and prepare key information for factsheets, infographics and other communications materials, including fact-checking and translations when needed;
- Assist with editing publications and reviewing translations.
Salary/benefits:
This is a contractor position paying USD$2,500 USD – $3,500 paid via wire transfer per month. Total amount will be based on experience and education.
As an independent contractor, the position is not eligible for any employee benefits. The selected candidate must follow all local laws, including but not limited to paying social and health insurance as required by their country regulations.
Contractor will work from home and must have a stable internet connection capable of doing video calls.
How to Apply
To apply, please provide:
- Cover letter in English
- Resume in English
- Three professional references including reference name, firm name, reference email and working relationship to reference (ex. supervisor).
- All finalists will undergo a foreign language proficiency test.
Email these documents to gficareers@gfintegrity.org & cmhernandez@gfintegrity.org, and please include “Central America – Policy Analyst” in the subject line. To be considered for the position, you must include all documents in one PDF file. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis; applicants are strongly encouraged to apply early. No phone calls please.
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No phone calls please
This year, Global Financial Integrity, Academics Stand Against Poverty and Yale’s Global Justice Program will be awarding the eleventh annual Amartya Sen Prizes to the two best original essays examining one particular component of illicit financial flows, the resulting harms, and possible avenues of reform. Essays should be about 7,000 to 9,000 words long. There is a first prize of USD 5,000 and a second prize of USD 3,000. Winning essays must be available for publication in Journal Academics Stand Against Poverty. Past winners are not eligible.
Illicit financial flows are explicitly recognized as an obstacle to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and singled out as target #4 of SDG 16. They are defined as cross-border movements of funds that are illegally earned, transferred, or used – such as funds earned through illegal trafficking in persons, drugs or weapons; funds illegally transferred through mispriced exchanges (e.g., among affiliates of a multinational firm seeking to shift profits to reduce taxes); goods misinvoiced or funds moved in order to evade taxes; and funds used for corruption of or by public or corporate officials.
Components of illicit financial flows can be delimited by sector or geographically. Delimitation by sector might focus your essay on some specific activity, business or industry – such as art, real estate, health care, technology, entertainment, shipping, weapons, agriculture, sports, gaming, education, politics, tourism, natural resource extraction, banking and financial services – or on an even narrower subsector such as the diamond trade, hunting, insurance, or prostitution. Delimitation by geography might further narrow the essay’s focus to some region, country, or province.
Your essay should describe the problematic activity and evaluate the adverse effects that make it problematic. You should estimate, in quantitative terms if possible, the magnitude of the relevant outflows as well as the damage they do to affected institutions and populations. This might include harm from abuse, exploitation and impoverishment of individuals, harm through subdued economic activity and reduced prosperity, and/or harm through diminished tax revenues that depress public spending.
Your essay should also explain the persistence of the harmful activity in terms of relevant incentives and enabling conditions and, based on your explanation, propose plausible ways to curtail the problem. Such reform efforts might be proposed at diverse levels, including supranational rules and regimes, national rules, corporate policies, professional ethics, individual initiatives, or any combination thereof. The task is to identify who has the responsibility, the capacity and (potentially) the knowledge and motivation to change behavior toward effective curtailment. Special consideration will be given to papers that provide a detailed description of how change may come about in a particular geographical or sectoral context.
We welcome authors from diverse academic disciplines and from outside the academy. Please send your entry by email attachment on or before 31 August 2024 to Tom Cardamone at SenPrize@gfintegrity.org.
While your message should identify you, your essay should be stripped of self-identifying references, formatted for blind review.