Senior Analyst - Forest Crime Investigations - Per

Contract Duration

Fixed‑term contract for one year with possibility of renewal.

Spanish and English are essential, Portuguese is desirable.

3 to 5 years' relevant experience.

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.

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.

The GI‑TOC is seeking an Analyst based in Perú to lead its regional‑level investigative work on forest crime under the NICFI‑funded “From Roots to Enrichment” initiative (2026–2029), and to serve as GI‑TOC’s primary focal point for engagement with the Peruvian government counterparts on forest crime and related organized crime issues.

Peru's deforestation story is not primarily one of lawful land conversion. It is driven by criminal networks moving illegal timber through legitimate supply chains, by gold mining operations that scar the Amazon at an unprecedented scale, by coca cultivation and cocaine production that push the extractive frontiers deeper into the forest, by land‑grabbing operations that launder stolen or irregularly titled concessions into agriculture and cattle ranching, and by corrupt officials, financiers, and intermediaries that are profiting from all these illicit markets.

Disrupting these networks requires sustained in‑country investigative capacity, credible evidence, and relationships across enforcement, policy, and civil society that can translate intelligence into action. Focused on addressing criminally driven deforestation, the NICFI project aims to carry out and support direct interventions against this situation, with an emphasis on illegal mining and Perú's global role in illicit flows.

The role builds on an existing GI‑TOC engagement with illicit flows in Perú, including investigative and community resilience work under the Andean Regional Observatory and GI‑TOC’s Resilience Fund. The Senior Analyst will work closely with the Andean Regional Observatory, and GI‑TOC’s partners in the NICFI project, which include civil society organisations working on deforestation, mining, private sector and Indigenous issues. The Analyst will also engage with and be supported by the environmental thematic leads in the global policy team.

This is a role for an experienced Peruvian investigator or analyst who knows how the system works — and where criminals infiltrate it. At the same time, this role demands strong interpersonal skills, an ability to create and maintain networks across multiple government agencies and institutions, and excellent time‑management skills to balance the demands of fieldwork, research and engagement in official settings.

• The Head of Forest Crime
• The Director of the Andean Region Observatory
• The Director of Extractives
• GI‑TOC’s environmental crime, extractives, and multilateral engagement teams
• Consortium partners operating in Perú under the NICFI project
• Peruvian government counterparts across relevant ministries and agencies
• Civil society and investigative partners in Perú

• Lead GI‑TOC’s investigative work on criminally driven deforestation in…