Secondment - Assistant Director Applied Innovation

**Publication Starting Date**:May 22, 2025

**Location**: Singapore, Singapore

**Company**:Interpol

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Job title: SECONDMENT - Assistant Director Applied Innovation
Reporting To: Director Innovation Centre
Location: Singapore
Duration (in months): 36.00
Grade: 2
Number of post: 1
Security Clearance Level: Basic

**INTRODUCTION OF THE POST**

The Innovation Centre (IC) is an entity that all law enforcement agencies around the world seek to actively engage to complement their respective strategic futures planning and technical innovation. It consists of Strategic and Applied Innovation sub Directorates. In this context the post holder is responsible for managing the Applied Innovation Sub Directorate including the Cyberspace and New Technologies Lab and the Digital Forensics Lab.

The post holder is expected to work closely with the Strategic Innovation Sub Directorate, other INTERPOL units and external partners in a flexible project team approach researching, developing and implementing dynamic and innovative solutions to policing issues. The outputs of these project teams are:

- Policy - Developing, considering and advocating interventions at the policy level to enhance law enforcement processes and value chains; facilitating the development of internationally endorsed policing standards and norms;
- New Technologies - Facilitating a coordinated approach for INTERPOL, member countries and non-governmental partners to be collectively plugged in to the world of new technologies, understand the threats they pose but also the opportunities they generate to enhance policing efforts.

The objective is instilling an INTERPOL culture of innovation to support its member states through the identification of future policing scenarios, the dynamic development of ground breaking policing initiatives and internationally agreed policing standards, underpinned by a research platform for police, public/private partners and academia.

**PRIMARY DUTIES**

**DUTY 1: MANAGEMENT OF APPLIED INNOVATION**
- Lead the management and development of innovative approaches to concrete operational deliverables in the fields of digital forensics, cyberspace and new technologies; closing the gap between the concept and the practice of innovation.
- Develop and maintain partnerships with relevant stakeholders to promote Applied Innovation. Assess and where applicable, initiate informed conversations amongst the community regarding the need to monitor developments in these areas, acquire a keen knowledge of the various facets involved and understand the extent of their respective impact on policing requirements.
- Identify and define research needs of the law enforcement community across all three INTERPOL Global Programmes: Cybercrime, Counter Terrorism and Organized and Emerging Crime; developing guidelines and best practices.
- Manage the staff and budget of the Cyberspace and New Technologies Lab, the Digital Forensics Lab and project teams delivering foresight, policy and new technologies.

**DUTY 2: CYBERSPACE AND NEW TECHNOLOGIES**
- Develop and maintain a comprehensive understanding of the cyberspace and new technologies sphere, be it through robust research work or close engagement with relevant stakeholders both within and outside the global policing community.
- Manage a group of experts in applied analysis of emerging crime trends and threats to digital security, through various processes including statistics, artificial intelligence and database management.
- Facilitate efforts by the global law enforcement community to leverage on new technologies through applied innovation to mitigate emerging policing concerns; creating an environment to fine-tune potential solutions through brokering pilot trials and testbeds.
- Coordinate development of innovative methodologies for research and tools development drawing on open-source intelligence and partnership contributions.

**DUTY 3: DIGITAL FORENSICS**
- Manage research into cutting-edge digital forensics capabilities to be at the forefront in terms of understanding and addressing o