This position is located in the Narcotics Control and Estimates Section (NCES) of the Secretariat of the International Narcotics Control Board (SINCB), Division for Treaty Affairs (DTA), United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), in Vienna, Austria. The Secretariat of INCB is an administrative entity of UNODC reporting directly to the Board on substantive matters. The incumbent will work under the direct supervision of the Chief of the Section, and the overall guidance of the Secretary of the Board/Chief of SINCB.
The focus of this job is to monitor the implementation of the Single Convention on Narcotics Drugs, 1961, to limit the cultivation of narcotic plants and the production, manufacture and use of narcotic drugs to medical and scientific purposes, to ensure their availability for such purposes and to prevent diversion of narcotic drugs into the illicit traffic.
