Enabel is the Belgian agency for international cooperation. With our partners, we develop ideas and implement projects addressing urgent global challenges, such as climate change, social and economic inequalities, demographic trends, peace and security. 

We have over 25 years' experience in areas ranging from education, health care and social protection, food systems, environmental protection and biodiversity, economic development and employment, financial and administrative governance... The Belgian government, the European Union, several financial partners, the governments of other countries and the private sector call on Enabel's expertise. We also work with public departments, research institutes and civil society organisations to enable meaningful social change. 


With 2,500 staff, Enabel manages more than 200 projects in more than twenty countries, in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. 
 

More specifically, your main responsibilities are:

Technical guidance on policing and organised crime

• Provide expert advice on law enforcement cooperation, corridor security, organised crime dynamics and operational responses to trafficking.
  
  
• Support the application of EMPACT/SOCTA-inspired approaches, including threat assessment, prioritisation, operational planning, implementation and evaluation.
  
  
• Translate project objectives into practical technical guidance for LSIs, regional exchanges and joint operations.
  
  
• Support technical coordination with Coginta teams to ensure a coherent and harmonised approach to the design and implementation of LSIs across participating countries, while allowing adaptation to local contexts.
  
  
  

• Advise the regional project manager, multi-country security experts and national focal points on the design, implementation and evaluation of LSIs.
  
  
• Support the identification of operational needs, appropriate methodologies, training needs, equipment requirements and possible standard operating procedures.
  
  
• As needed, identify and help source external (police) expertise to support the implementation of specific aspects within selected LSIs.
  
  
  

• Provide technical coaching and mentoring to national project officers or focal points involved in LSI design and implementation.
  
  
• Support the preparation and delivery of capacity-building activities for police and other security and justice actors.
  
  
• Promote peer learning, practical exchanges and the adaptation of good practices between countries.
  
  
  

• Review and contribute to technical notes, threat assessment outputs, LSI documentation, operational guidelines and lessons-learned products.
  
  
• Support the translation of GI-TOC research outputs into operational recommendations, methodologies and strategic guidance for LSIs, regional operations and capacity-building activities.
  
  
• Ensure that lessons learned, challenges and innovations emerging from LSIs are systematically captured and fed back into research, analytical products and regional learning processes.
  
  
• Support the integration of cross-cutting principles, including human rights, gender sensitivity, accountability, anti-corruption and conflict sensitivity.

Stakeholder engagement

• Maintain technical dialogue with national law enforcement agencies, ECOWAS/WAPCCO structures, EU Delegations, Belgian Police, Coginta, GI-TOC and other relevant partners in coordination with the Regional Project Manager.
  
  
• Represent the project in technical meetings and contribute to building trust with operational counterparts.
  
  
• Support coherence and complementarity with other EU and Member State-funded initiatives related to border management, organised crime and law enforcement cooperation.

• Master’s degree in political science, criminology, law, international relations, development studies or related field.
  
  
  

• Relevant professional experience in policing, law enforcement cooperation, security sector reform, organised crime, trafficking, border management or related fields;
  
  
• Proven experience in advising, coaching or supporting operational law enforcement actors;
  
  
• Experience in designing or supporting capacity-building, operational planning, inter-agency cooperation or joint operations;
  
  
• Experience in fragile, politically sensitive or security-sensitive contexts, preferably in West Africa;
  
  
• Significant experience within a police force or law enforcement agency; experience as a senior officer is a strong asset;
  
  
• Experience working with regional organisations, EU-funded programmes or international cooperation projects is an asset;
  
  
• Experience with community policing, crisis management, intelligence-led policing, organised crime investigations, border security, anti-corruption or human rights-based policing is an asset.
  
  

Are you interested?

Apply here on-line  with  an  application  letter and your updated CV, at the latest by 4th November 2026.

Only applications that are registered here via our on-line portal will be considered.