Internship - Unified Teams - Investigation and Analysis

22840 | OTP

Due to the volume of applications received, only successful applicants will be contacted by the Court.

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 between three and six months (to be agreed to prior to commencement). Internship placements shall not be extended beyond six months.

The Opportunity

The International Criminal Court (ICC) investigates and, where warranted, tries individual charges with the gravest crimes of concerns to the international community: genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and crime of aggression. The Court is participating in the global fight to end impunity, and through the international criminal justice, the Court aims to hold those responsible accountable for their crimes and to help prevent the crimes from happening again. You can contribute to this cause by joining the ICC.

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 Unified Teams (UTs) are multidisciplinary teams comprising investigators, analysts, lawyers, an international cooperation adviser, an information management assistant, a case manager, trial support assistants, and other specialists as required. Under the leadership of the Head of Unified Team (HUT), these professionals work together conducting high quality investigations and prosecutions. Unified Teams work alongside the Preliminary Examination Section (“PES”), which oversees that legal and factual assessment of all referred situations and article 15 communications in order to determine whether an investigation into a situation should be initiated.

Duties and Responsibilities

The candidate will be assigned to work within a Unified Team or PES, supporting its evidence collection and/or analytical activities.

Under the supervision of the Team Leader or the Lead Analyst, and in compliance with the relevant protocols and methods, the candidate will perform one or more of the following duties:

• Information and Evidence collection – Support for the collection, handling, recording and processing of information and evidence in accordance with OTP standard operating procedures, particularly in relation to open sources;

• Databases – Data entry and data cleaning (including structured and unstructured data) for relevant databases used by the teams to process and analyse information and evidence.

• 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.

• Searches – Conducts searches in databases or open sources as required to support investigations and analysis

• 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.
• Software skills – acquired computer skills, Including Microsoft Office applications, applications for internet searches and databases.
• Diversity – Able to work with highly diverse teams (multiple cultures, gender, languages, etc.).
• Teamwork – Listening, communication and sharing skills.

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.

Other criteria:
It is the Court’s objective to have diversity and gender balance. And in line with the ICC’s efforts to improve geographical representation among staff, nationals of non-represented and under-represented countries at the ICC are encouraged to apply. The list can be found here.
 
Remuneration
Please note that internship and visiting professional placements at the ICC are unfunded. The ICC is not able to provide participants in the Internship and Visiting Professional Programme with any remuneration, nor is it possible to provide reimbursement for expenses incurred prior, during or after the internship or visiting professional placement.
 
Applicants must therefore be able to support themselves for the entire duration of their internship or visiting professional 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.
 
If funding is available, the Human Resources Section will advertise a funded vacancy announcement in accordance with the terms of reference of the Trust Fund as agreed by the donors.
 
In order to be eligible for a funded placement, if advertised, 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.