Information and Evidence Officer

The Information and Evidence Officer supports the Investigation and Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Crimes under International Law in Syria. The role involves leading complex eDiscovery projects, managing evidence systems, mentoring staff, and providing expert advice on evidentiary protocols and system design.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategy, planning and implementation of complex eDiscovery projects including technical objectives, evidence system population, data structure analysis, and expert advice on evidence handling.
• Manage, develop, empower and mentor information and evidence officers including supervision, training, and enforcing evidence handling standards.
• Lead complex aspects of system design, evaluation and application support including advising on evidentiary protocols, developing technical documents, overseeing training programs, and acting as eDiscovery tools administrator.
• Liaise with third parties such as vendors, experts, government entities, NGOs, individuals, or legal counsels on technical issues related to defensible evidence handling and data transfer.
• Provide expert consulting services to judicial and prosecutorial entities regarding technical aspects of review, analysis and information retrieval.
• Review and finalize custodian questionnaires and identification frameworks for investigations and collections.
• Monitor project progress against plans and benchmarks ensuring compliance with standards and guidelines.

Requirements

• Advanced university degree (Master's degree or equivalent) in information science, information systems, computer science, library science, law, social science or related field.
• A first-level university degree in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
• Certification in eDiscovery, or an eDiscovery related system is required.
• Certification in data protection is desirable.
• Certification in Nuix or encase is desirable.
• Certification in mobile forensics is desirable.
• Certification in project management is desirable.
• A minimum of seven years of progressively responsible work experience in information management or related area, of which a minimum of five years in eDiscovery is required.
• Prior experience in the legal industry is required.
• Experience in electronic evidence acquisition is required.
• Experience with the proper handling of physical evidence, including developing standard operating procedures, is required.
• Handling experience, including chain of custody, provenance, verification, authenticity and auditing is required.
• Experience in litigation project management is required.
• Prior experience in international criminal law is desirable.
• Experience with documents using right-to-left script and in information retrieval techniques for Arabic is desirable.
• Experience in both left-side and right-side EDRM activity including the collection and preservation of digital evidence is desirable.
• Experience supervising a team is desirable.
• English language proficiency at UN Level III is required.
• Arabic language proficiency at UN Level II is desirable.

Skills

• eDiscovery
• Data Protection
• Nuix
• EnCase
• Mobile Forensics
• Project Management
• Information Management
• Electronic Evidence Acquisition
• Physical Evidence Handling
• Standard Operating Procedures Implementation
• Chain of Custody Procedures
• Evidence Verification
• Evidence Authenticity
• Evidence Auditing
• Litigation Project Management
• International Criminal Law
• Information Retrieval Techniques
• EDRM Activity
• Team Supervision

Languages

English, Arabic