Associate Electronic Evidence Officer

The Associate Electronic Evidence Officer supports the unified investigation and prosecution teams by providing technical and data analytic support related to electronic evidence. The role involves supervising technicians, developing technical scripts, assisting in data processing, and ensuring forensic integrity of electronic evidence within the Office of the Prosecutor's framework.

Responsibilities

• Supervise technicians and processes associated with securing electronic evidence at the seat of the Court.
• Write technical scripts and programs that transform the structure of data to become useful in the Office’s evidence management systems.
• Translate the objectives of investigations into technical activities to assist teams in their examination of electronic content.
• Interact with teams to assist in the assessment of the significance of an electronic device and the identification of relevant information.
• Analyse and understand the structures and purposes of collected data and advise teams on appropriate measures to extract relevant information while maintaining forensic integrity of the evidence.
• Populate evidence selection systems to allow teams to select potentially relevant items for registration as evidence.
• Assist in the preparation, ingestion, and processing of digital materials including structured and unstructured data.
• Enrich A/V material, including format conversion, fingerprinting, transcript alignment, voice isolation, and other forms of audio-video enhancement.
• Apply OCR, face detection, and/or translation enrichment, ensuring multilingual data is tagged/searchable and facilitate integration of human or machine-generated translations (including post-processing), maintaining traceability and ensuring translated materials align with the source data.
• Assist with the preparation and processing for disclosure by applying and validating redactions, tagging material for disclosure categories, and ensuring proper formatting and packaging in line with Registry and Court standards.
• Participate in quality control and final validation checks.
• Other duties as required.

Requirements

• An advanced university degree in data science, computer science, information science, computer programming, business management, law, social science, 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.
• A minimum of two years of relevant professional experience (four years with a first-level university degree) in eDiscovery, digital evidence, or legal technology setting is required.
• Familiarity with the EDRM framework and chain of custody protocols is required.
• RelativityOne Skilled certification (such as Relativity Analytics Specialist, Relativity Data Management Specialist, Relativity Infrastructure Specialist, Relativity Processing Specialist, Relativity Project Management Specialist, or Relativity Review Management Specialist) is required.
• Experience supporting RelativityOne or similar platforms (e.g., Nuix, iPro) in a technical or user-support capacity is required.
• Experience in a legal, investigative, and/or law enforcement environment, of which at least one is at the international level, is preferred.
• Experience in gathering, documenting, and assessing case-related user requirements is required.
• Experience in electronic evidence acquisition, handling, analysis, and exploitation, including chain of custody, provenance, verification, and authenticity, is required.
• Experience in data transformation, indexing, or analytics tools is preferred.
• Experience in handling sensitive or confidential information is required.
• Experience in supervision of staff is desirable.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and drafting skills.
• Strong analytical, planning, and organisational skills, with flexibility and ability to adjust in a highly dynamic environment is required.
• Excellent working knowledge of query languages such as SQL and dtSearch, and/or programming languages such as Python or JAVA is required.
• Ability to work effectively under strict deadlines and time pressures.
• Demonstrated ability to work in a multicultural, multi-ethnic environment and to maintain effective working relationships with people of different national and cultural backgrounds.
• Ability to keep strict standards of confidentiality; and Professional integrity.
• Proficiency in one of the working languages of the Court, French or English, is required.
• Working language of the other language is highly desirable.
• Knowledge of another official language of the Court (Arabic, Chinese, Russian and Spanish) would be considered an asset.

Skills

• eDiscovery
• Digital Evidence Handling
• Legal Technology
• EDRM Framework
• Chain of Custody Protocols
• RelativityOne
• Relativity Analytics
• Relativity Data Management
• Relativity Infrastructure
• Relativity Processing
• Relativity Project Management
• Relativity Review Management
• Nuix
• iPro
• Electronic Evidence Acquisition
• Evidence Analysis
• Data Transformation
• Data Indexing
• Query Languages SQL
• dtSearch
• Programming Languages Python
• Programming Languages JAVA
• User Requirements Gathering
• Case Documentation
• Handling Confidential Information
• Staff Supervision
• Technical Support
• Forensic Integrity
• Data Analytics
• Presentation Skills
• Report Drafting

Languages

English, French