Internship - Office of the Director, Division of Judicial Services

22861| Registry 

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).

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 Division of Judicial Services (DJS) is responsible for providing support for the judicial proceedings of the International Criminal Court. It comprises the Office of the Director, the Court Management Section, the Information Management Services Section, the Detention Section, the Language Services Section, the Victims Participation and Reparations Section, the Counsel Support Section, the Office of Public Counsel for Victims and the Office of Public Counsel for the Defence. DJS provides a number of services that are crucial for the implementation of the Court’s core activities such as support for judicial proceedings by managing the courtrooms and organizing hearings, providing efficient interpretation and translation; the administration and management of victims participation and reparations, providing information services; administration of legal aid, etc.

The Office of the Director is responsible for ensuring a coordinated approach to the Division's aims and activities. Further to coordinating and supervising the work of each Section, the Office of the Director assists in preparing the annual budget and is responsible for creating synergies among the sections of the Division. The Office of the Director ensures coordination of judicial activities and the implementation of Chambers' orders and instructions where the Registry action is required.

Duties and Responsibilities

Interns providing services in the Office of the Director, Division of Judicial Services would be required to perform the following duties:

• Conduct legal research on all matters related to the mandate of the Office of the Director of the Division of Judicial Services.
• Provide support to the Office of the Director on specific projects related to its mandate;
• Follow all the cases before the Court and provide summaries of filings/decisions where required;
• Attend various meetings and take minutes;
• Draft correspondences, Draft memoranda and reports as required;
• Assist with managing the Registry’s list of experts database; and
• Provide any other assistance when required.
• In order to complete these services access will be granted to the Court’s own library as well as its wide range of legal databases.

Essential Qualifications

Education:

All candidates must have a degree or be in the final stages of their studies at a recognised university in the area of law, international relations or other relevant field. 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.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Maintains a service-orientated attitude at all times.
• Has a genuine interest in international law, particularly international criminal law, and legal research. 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).

Knowledge of Languages

Proficiency in either of the working languages of the Court (French or English) is required. 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. 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.