Information and Evidence Officer (TJO)

The Information and Evidence Officer supports the International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism (IIIM) in the investigation and prosecution of serious crimes committed in Syria. The role involves providing technical advisory and capacity-building support on evidence management infrastructures, data processing, and eDiscovery tools to ensure forensic integrity and support judicial processes.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical and advisory support for designing, establishing, and maintaining evidence management infrastructures in line with international standards.
• Advise on processes, methodologies, and tools for collection, ingestion, processing, preservation, and analysis of information and evidence ensuring forensic integrity and chain of custody.
• Support processing, structuring, and normalization of complex datasets including digital and physical evidence for efficient retrieval and analysis.
• Provide expert guidance on design and implementation of data models, taxonomies, and metadata schemas to support evidence-based factual and legal analysis.
• Facilitate interoperability and information-sharing between systems ensuring compliance with data protection, security, and confidentiality requirements.
• Design and deliver specialized training programmes, workshops, and capacity-building initiatives.
• Contribute to development of training materials, policies, standard operating procedures, and guidance notes to strengthen institutional capabilities in managing and analysing evidence.
• Coordinate with headquarters to process and prepare evidence assets for judicial processes.
• Perform evidence handling and custodial obligations including collection, preservation, registration, digitization, and secure storage maintaining chain of custody and authenticity.
• Manage data ingestion, processing, and indexing of registered material and populate review and analysis systems.
• Establish efficient procedures for review of evidence and information.
• Define, implement, and maintain end-to-end data models supporting efficient information flow and enforcing provenance and confidentiality.
• Develop eDiscovery requirements and workflows including technical specifications for data harvesting and processing.
• Contribute to design of Mechanism's eDiscovery protocols and technology infrastructure.
• Prepare technical documents, gather requirements, and initiate standardization and procurement practices per UN procedures.
• Provide training on eDiscovery and its tools for internal and external stakeholders.
• Act as administrator of eDiscovery tools.
• Perform other duties as requested.

Requirements

• Advanced university degree (Master's degree or equivalent) in information science, information systems, computer science, archival, law, social science or related field. A first-level university degree in combination with two additional years of qualifying work experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
• Certification in eDiscovery is desirable.
• Certification in project management is desirable.
• A minimum of five years of progressively responsible work experience in information management or a related area is required.
• Experience in analyzing information using specialized e-discovery and data analysis software platforms is required.
• Experience in data modelling, advanced information retrieval is desirable.
• Experience with database management and programming languages such as SQL, Python, and R is desirable.
• Experience in managing and analyzing large volumes of structured data across multiple languages is desirable.
• Experience working with complex datasets in the context of criminal investigations is desirable.
• Experience working in international criminal or human rights accountability mechanisms is desirable.
• English and Arabic language proficiency at UN Level II and III respectively.

Skills

• Information Management
• eDiscovery
• Data Analysis
• Project Management
• Data Modelling
• Information Retrieval
• Database Management
• SQL
• Python
• R Programming
• Multilingual Data Analysis
• Criminal Investigations Data Analysis
• Evidence Management
• Forensic Data Processing
• Judicial Proceedings Support

Languages

English, Arabic