Closing date: Thursday, 20 April 2023
22882 | OTP
Organisational Unit:
Unified Teams, OTP
Duty Station:
The Hauge
Contract Duration:
6 months
Deadline for Applications:
20 April 2023
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)
- One reference letter
Contract Duration
Visiting Professionals are required to work full time for a period between three and six months (to be agreed to prior to commencement). Visiting Professional 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 two Deputy Prosecutors, under the delegated authority of the Prosecutor, manage two established Prosecution Pillars. The two Deputy Prosecutors manage an equal division of situations and cases based on a Unified Team concept.
The Unified Teams 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 overall leadership of the Head of Unified Team, these professionals work cohesively towards the common purpose of conducting high quality, effective and efficient investigations leading to successful prosecutions. Unified Teams and the Office of the Prosecutor more generally are supported by, amongst others, the Appeals and Legal Coordination Section (“APLCS”), and the Gender and Children Unit (“GCU”). The APLCS litigates before the Appeals Chamber and provides legal and strategic support. GCU provides legal, investigative and strategic advice during all phases, on sexual and gender based crimes and crimes against or affecting children. Unified Teams also work alongside the Preliminary Examination Section (“PES”), which oversees the 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. The Visiting Professional will be part of a Unified Team, APLCS, GCU, or PES.
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 either a law degree at a recognised university, preferably in Law or Criminology, or a diploma in criminal investigation from a law enforcement academy and/or relevant training in crime investigation techniques . [GB1]
Experience: Visiting Professional placements focus on candidates who have extensive experience in their professional careers in relevant fields of work. Applicants for placements in the Investigation Division would be required to have relevant professional experience in criminal and/or financial investigations, investigations of serious human rights violations and/or investigative analysis.
It will be considered an asset experience in conducting fact-finding activities: in complex and large-scale cases; involving personal interaction with victims, witnesses and criminal suspects; in a multicultural context; and/or placed in conflict or post-conflict areas.
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.
