| Posting Date: | 16/09/2026 | |
| Deadline for Applications: | 23/09/2026 (midnight The Hague time) | |
| Organizational Unit: | Information Fusion Centre, Tracking and Information Fusion Section, Integrated Services Division, Office of the Prosecutor | |
| Duty Station: | The Hague - NL | |
| Type of Appointment: | Short Term Appointment | |
| Minimum Net Annual Salary: | €70,675.00 | |
| Contract Duration: | To be determined |
Special Notice:
Two positions may be filled as a result of this recruitment process.
A Short-Term Appointment is used to recruit staff to meet short-term needs. The duration of this assignment is provided above. The maximum duration of a short-term appointment including extensions shall not exceed 12 months.
A Short-Term Appointment does not carry any expectancy, legal or otherwise, of renewal and shall not be converted to any other type of appointment.
A current ICC staff member who is holding a fixed-term appointment may apply for any short-term position. Where a current ICC staff member is selected to a short-term position, he or she will be temporarily assigned to the position in line with section 4.10 of ICC/AI/2016/001.
The terms and conditions of service for staff members appointed under a short-term appointment are governed by ICC/AI/2016/001.
Organisational Context
The Office of the Prosecutor (OTP) investigates war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide allegedly committed within the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court (ICC). Within the Integrated Services Division and as part of the Tracking and Information Fusion Section, the Information Fusion Centre (IFC) provides analytical support and advice to the Unified Teams and other OTP sections in specialized areas of analysis, including military analysis, open-source/OSINT investigation as well as geo-spatial and imagery analysis. The IFC carries out targeted collection and processing, all-source collation and analysis, and dissemination of fused analytical products in support of investigations and prosecutions. The IFC is made up of individuals of different professional and educational backgrounds to maximise efficiency and are able to work in multiple languages.
The Associate Aerial & Satellite Imagery Analyst works under the direct supervision of the GeoINT Team Lead within the IFC. The incumbent contributes to the fusion of multi‑source information, with a focus on aerial and satellite imagery exploitation, geospatial integration, and analytical reporting in support to the requirements of the Unified Teams and other OTP Sections/Units.
Duties and Responsibilities
Working under the direct supervision of the Forensic Officer (Digital Imaging) (P-3) (GeoINT Team Lead), the Associate Aerial and Imagery Analyst will be responsible for the following tasks:
- Select, process, interpret, and leverage aerial and satellite imagery from various sources available to the OTP.
- Conduct aerial and satellite imagery analysis-related activities in support of requests from Unified Teams and other OTP stakeholders, including change detection, imagery exploitation and analysis, and geospatial intelligence production.
- Train and validate models for automated raster classification for multiple objectives.
- Ensure proper communication, collaboration, and authorization with relevant stakeholders regarding aerial and satellite imagery, including collection and registration of imagery and related products.
- Perform data quality control, confirming accuracy in geographic coordinates and identifying potential challenges in imagery acquisition while ensuring compliance with established practices.
- Visualize geospatial data from different sources in a Geographical Information System (GIS).
- Perform other duties as required.
Essential Qualifications
Education:
- An advanced university degree in geographical sciences, physics, space engineering, or other relevant field, is required. A first level university degree in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience is accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
- Formal training as an Aerial and Satellite Imagery Analyst for electro-optical (EO), infra-red (IR) and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is required.
- Additional training as a military targeteer will be considered an asset.
Experience:
- A minimum of two years of relevant professional experience (four years with a first-level university degree) in aerial and satellite imagery analysis within a military, law enforcement, or judicial context is required.
- Experience with geospatial data collection and analysis is required.
- Experience with image analysis techniques and algorithms is required. Also, experience with the application of AI-based classification is desirable.
- Experience with imagery enhancement and exploitation software is required.
- Experience in Aerial Imagery and Earth observation satellite sensor data is required.
- Experience in writing reports is required.
- Experience in the concept of chain of evidence is desired.
- Experience in operating in high-risk environments following strong security protocols is required.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Knowledge of aerial and spacebased sensors and parameters.
- Knowledge of targeting ability to organize complex and voluminous amounts of information.
- Problem-solving skills.
- Ability to engage collaboratively with others in the pursuit of the overall OTP's goals, and to learn willingly from other people's diverse perspectives
- Ability to communicate effectively with relevant partners and networks.
- Technological awareness: keeps abreast of relevant technologies, understands applicability and limitation of these technologies and actively seeks to apply them to appropriate tasks, shows willingness to learn new technological developments.
- Ability to produce written reports according to the court standards.
- Integrity, tact and discretion in all matters.
Knowledge of languages:
- Proficiency in one of the working languages of the Court, French or English, is required. Working language of the other language is an asset. Knowledge of another official language of the Court (Arabic, Chinese, Russian and Spanish) would be considered an asset.
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General Information
- Candidates appointed to posts at a P-5 grade or in the Director category are subject to a maximum aggregate length of service of seven years. This is pursuant to a decision of the Assembly of States Parties (ASP Resolution ICC-ASP/23/Res.2 - ICC-ASP-23-Res.2-ENG) to implement a tenure policy at the Court as of 1 January 2025.
- The selected candidate will be subject to a Personnel Security Clearance (PSC) process in accordance with ICC policy. The PSC process will include but will not be limited to, verification of the information provided in the personal history form and a criminal record check.
- Applicants may check the status of vacancies on ICC E-Recruitment web-site.
- Post to be filled by a national of a State Party to the ICC Statute, or of a State which has signed and is engaged in the ratification process or which is engaged in the accession process. This is pursuant to a decision of the Assembly of States Parties (ASP Resolution ICC-ASP/23/Res.3 - ICC-ASP-23-Res.3-ENG) to introduce a moratorium on the recruitment by the ICC of staff of non-States Parties’ nationality.
- In accordance with the Rome Statute, the ICC aims to achieve fair representation of women and men for all positions, representation of the principal legal systems of the world for legal positions, and equitable geographical representation for positions in the professional category.
- Applications from female candidates are particularly encouraged.
- Personnel recruited at the General Service level are not entitled to all of the benefits granted to internationally-recruited staff;
- The International Criminal Court applies the Inter-Organization Mobility Accord and can support secondment of staff from organizations of the United Nations Common System.