**Organization Profile**Every year, millions of people around the world go missing as a result of conflict, human rights abuses, disasters, organized crime, irregular migration, and other causes. This is a complex global challenge that can be tackled effectively through cross-cutting programs that address a variety of difficult, interconnected issues.**The International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP)** is a treaty-based intergovernmental organization with Headquarters in The Hague, the Netherlands. Its mandate is to secure the cooperation of governments and others in locating missing persons from conflict, human rights abuses, disasters, organized crime, migration and other causes and to assist them in doing so. To learn more about ICMP click here.**Position Background**The International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP) is implementing an in-country Ukraine Program to assist the authorities to develop a sustainable process of accounting for missing persons and to ensure the rights of families of the missing are secured. As part of this work the ICMP signed a Memorandum on Scientific, Technical and Research Cooperation (MoC) with the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) of Ukraine. The statutes of scientific research institutions of forensic expertise of the MoJ (hereinafter referred to as the SRIFE) are state specialized institutions that, in accordance with the legislation of Ukraine, carry out forensic and scientific activities in the field of criminalistics and forensic examination. Under the MoC with the MoJ the ICMP aims to be provide assistance in the fields of forensic genetics and forensic examination by providing mutual assistance in expert activities, in particular technical and other means for conducting forensic examinations in order to identify missing/unidentified bodies.Purpose of role is to support staff in the Kyiv Scientific Research Institute of Forensic Expertise (SRIFE) who conduct photographic and portrait forensic examinations to identify living and deceased persons.**The Forensic Expert is requested to support ICMP's efforts to recover and identify missing persons through**:- Undertaking a review of methods, including specific software, used by experts in the Kyiv SRIFE to conduct photographic and portrait forensic examinations- Delivering a report that summarizes the findings and provides recommendations to ensure the experts working at the SRIFE are following international best practice.**Requirements**:- Relevant qualification (e.g., forensic anthropology, facial identification, forensic human identification)- At least 5 years practical casework experience in the field of facial identification- Demonstrated experience in reviewing and reporting on facial identification methods and results- Ability to work with interpreter/translators, and- Willingness and availability to work in-person in Kyiv.This is a short- term consultancy. Payments will be made at the end of the month.Expected start date: as soon as possible. End date of the contract will depend on the start date of the consultant.- ICMP may cancel this recruitment without notice, or may decide to offer a position with different duties and/or contract length._
