Internship - Investigation Teams and Analysis - Office of the Prosecutor

18951 | OTP

Required Documents for This Application

Please note that you will need to have the following information ready in order to complete your application:

• A completed “Duties and Responsibilities Form” (refer to step 1 on your eRecruitment Profile page).
• Motivation letter (maximum of 400 words).
• Two reference letters (one academic).
• Scanned copies of university degrees and/or diplomas.
• Scanned copies of official academic transcripts that state your courses, results and completion date.
• One short essay on a subject relevant to the work of the Court (maximum of 750 words, single spaced, type written).

Contract Duration

Interns are required to work full time for a period of six months. Internship placements shall not be extended beyond six months.

Organisational Context

The Office of the Prosecutor investigates and prosecutes genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes committed by nationals of a State Party or on the territory of a State Party on or after 1 July 2002, the date of entry into force of the Rome Statute.

The Investigation Division (ID), under the overall management of its Director and management team, provides the investigative component of the integrated team which conducts the Office’s investigations and prosecutions under the responsibility of Prosecution Division’s Senior Trial Lawyer. ID recruits, trains and monitors the performance of investigators, analysts and data inputters within the integrated team.

Duties and Responsibilities

The candidate will be assigned to work within an investigative team, supporting its evidence collection and/or analytical activities.

Under the supervision of the Team Leader, the Head of the IAS or a designated analyst, and in compliance with the relevant protocols and methods, the candidate will perform one or more of the following duties:

• Provide support to the investigative team with the preparation of evidence collection activities, as well as with the handling, recording and processing of information and evidence in accordance with OTP standard operating procedures;
• Databases – Data entry and data cleaning (including structured and unstructured data) for relevant databases, such as the Fact Analysis Database (FAD) that collates and integrates evidence for every case by incidents, alleged perpetrators, victims, locations, groups and other issues relevant to the investigation.
• Crime pattern – Support for crime pattern monitoring and analysis for situations and cases under investigation, with the required collection of information from open or other sources, data entry and data cleaning, and storage of the relevant sources, using the required software tools.
• Telecommunications – Data entry and data processing to support the analysis of telecommunications and similar structured data (financial or other) through relevant software and databases.
• Searches – Conducts searches in databases or open sources as required to support investigations and analysis.
• Assist with all the logistics related with the planning and preparation of field missions, as well as post-mission activities (note: interns will not participate in field missions);
• Other – Any other support task required to assist investigators and analysis, including production of summaries and collations, corroboration checks, and sourcing of reports or other analytical products.

Required Qualifications

Education:

All Candidates must have a degree or be in the final stages of their studies at a recognised university. Candidates are expected to have a very good record of academic performance.

Experience:

Internship placements focus on candidates in the early stages of their professional careers therefore; practical experience is not an essential prerequisite for selection. However, practical experience that is relevant to the work of the Court may be considered an asset.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Confidentiality – Ability to keep strict confidentiality about the relevant information and procedures.
• Accuracy – Excellent attention to detail and accuracy when processing information.
• Able to adapt to multicultural and multilingual working environments.
• Possesses strong teamwork skills (listens, consults and communicates proactively).
• Has acquired a good standard of computer skills (including Microsoft Office applications, and databases).

Knowledge of Languages:

Proficiency in one of the working languages of the Court, French or English, is required. Working knowledge of the other is desirable. Knowledge of another official language of the Court (Arabic, Chinese, Russian and Spanish) is an asset.

Remuneration

Please note that the ICC is not able to provide all participants in the Internship and Visiting Professional Programme with remuneration, nor is it possible to provide reimbursement for expenses incurred during the internship or visiting professional placement.

Applicants should therefore be able to support themselves for the duration of their internship or placement. 

Limited funding may, however, be available through the ICC’s Trust Fund for the Development of Interns and Visiting Professionals, which receives donations from States Parties and other donors to fund nationals of States Parties from developing regions. These donations are equally divided between the four Organs of the Court.

If funding is available, the Human Resources Section shall assess a candidate’s eligibility in accordance with the terms of reference of the Trust Fund as agreed by the donors. 

In order to be eligible, the applicant must, among other criteria, be a national from a country that is a State Party to the Rome Statue and appears on the United Nations Statistics Division’s list of developing regions.

Candidates eligible for funding shall receive detailed information and further instructions after the selection process is finalized. Stipends will always be agreed at the time of offering the internship. No funding will be provided at a later stage.