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Visiting Professional - Trust Fund for Victims (Resource and Partnership Development)

The Hague | nl

  • Organization: ICC - International Criminal Court
  • Location: The Hague | nl
  • Grade: Internship - Internship
  • Occupational Groups:
    • Development Cooperation and Sustainable Development Goals
    • External Relations, Partnerships and Resource mobilization
    • Public, Private Partnership
    • Fundraising
    • Visiting Professional
  • Closing Date: Closed

The Trust Fund for Victims | 18674

Organisational Unit: The Trust Fund for Victims
Duty Station: The Hague - NL
Contract Duration: 6 months
Deadline for Applications: 14/02/2019

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 500 words).
  • Two reference letters (professional or 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 Trust Fund (maximum of 750 words, single spaced, type written).

Contract Duration

Visiting professionals are required to work full time for a period of three to six months (to be agreed to prior to commencement).

Organisational Context

The Trust Fund for Victims (TFV) at the International Criminal Court (ICC) was created by the Rome Statute (Art 79). It is governed by a Board of Directors, elected every three years by the Assembly of States Parties. The Board is supported by a Secretariat, which carries out the daily management of the TFV’s activities.

The TFV has been entrusted by the Assembly with two reparative justice mandates: (i) to implement Court-ordered reparations to victims in a convicted case; and (ii) to provide assistance (physical and psychological rehabilitation and material support) to victims and their families in ICC situation countries.

The mission of the TFV is to respond to the harm resulting from the crimes under the jurisdiction of the Court by ensuring the rights of victims and their families through the provision of reparations and assistance.

The strategic goals of the TFV aim to:

  1. Ensure reparative justice for victims to overcome their harm and transform their lives
  2. Facilitate assistance and reparations by ensuring financial growth and sustainability
  3. Advocate for the rights of victims in the international public domain
  4. Ensure good governance, accountability and transparency by creating an effective organisational structure

The mandate-related activities of the TFV are funded from voluntary contributions and donations. Reparations awards may be funded by asset recovery and fines imposed on convicted persons by the Court.

Donors can earmark contributions, at the invitation of the TFV, towards thematic activities (e.g., benefiting victims suffering harm from conflict related sexual and gender based violence or victims suffering mental harm), country programmes or specific projects, such as (components of) reparations awards.

In regard of resource development, the TFV functions as a multi-donor trust fund seeking stable and long-term partnerships, both public and private. Whenever appropriate and feasible in the operation of its mandates, the TFV acts as a grant-making mechanism to locally based implementing partners. According to the TFV Regulations, the TFV receives administrative support from the Registry. In as far as not determined by the TFV Regulations, the TFV’s financial-administrative practice complies with the Court’s relevant regulatory provisions.

Duties and Responsibilities

Under the guidance and supervision of the Fundraising and Visibility Officer (in absence: Associate Executive Officer), the visiting professional will support the TFV in the areas of resource and partnership development. This includes the following responsibilities:

  • Undertake research and advice on international funding trends and financing mechanisms, both public and private, in areas relevant to the reparative justice mandates of the TFV, including but not limited to peace and security, stabilisation and post-conflict recovery and transitional justice. Thematic focus areas include: victimisation of conflict related sexual and gender based violence, mental harm, physical rehabilitation, education and vocational training, and livelihood development;
  • Undertake donor specific research into priority policy / funding areas, geographical spread, and partnership policies and, for private donor prospects, suitability in view of the TFV’s Guidelines for private donations;
  • Support the exploration of in-kind partnerships to strengthen programme implementation or resource and partnership development;
  • Assist in conducting research on individual giving approaches and possibilities;
  • Provide advice and contribute to the development of international and localised fundraising campaigns and related events supporting the reparative justice mandates of the TFV, including supporting media and products;
  • Develop partner-specific visual representations of TFV’s mission, goals, and impacts;
  • Liaise with the Court’s organs and external stakeholders on joint development of campaigns, events and outreach messages supporting the reparative justice mandates of the TFV;
  • Support donor reporting commitments, follow up and alerting on upcoming deadlines, provide support to review and quality assurance of narrative donor reporting;
  • Assist in administrative and substantive support to meetings, preparation of background documents, arrangements and follow up for upcoming events;
  • Perform other related duties.

Required Qualifications

Education:

All candidates must have a degree at a recognised university in marketing and resource development; or to possess demonstrable marketing and resource development skills in combination with a degree in international law, social sciences, international relations, development, public administration, business/management, communications, journalism or a related field. Candidates are expected to have a strong record of academic performance.

Experience:

Visiting professionals must have minimum three years professional experience in fields relevant to international marketing and resource development

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

  • Interest and motivation in working in an international organization;
  • Good research and drafting skills, analytical skills in gathering and consolidating data and research for practical implementation;
  • Initiative-taking person with a goal-oriented mindset;
  • Be confident, responsible and detail-oriented when working with documents and material;
  • Ability to work under pressure and work on unfamiliar tasks;
  • Communicates effectively when working in teams and independently;
  • Good in organizing and structuring various tasks and responsibilities;
  • Responds positively to feedback and differing points of view;
  • Consistently approaches work with energy and a positive, constructive attitude;
  • 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 English is required and working knowledge of French is desirable. Knowledge of another official language of the Court (Arabic, Chinese, Russian and Spanish) is an asset.

Remuneration

Please note that the ICC is not able to provide participants in the Internship and Visiting Professional Programme with remuneration, nor is it possible to provide reimbursement for any expenses incurred during the internship or Visiting Professional placement. Accordingly, applicants must have the necessary resources or other financial support for the duration of the placement for which they have been selected.

If a State Party to the Rome Statute provides a donation to the Internship Programmes Fund, it may be possible to offer a limited number of interns a stipend for cost of living and travel. If funding is available, the Human Resources Section will conduct an assessment of the candidate determining eligibility for funding in accordance with the Court’s Policy on Internships and Visiting Professionals and relevant funding conditions. In order to be eligible, the applicant must, among other criteria, be a national from a country that is a State Party to the Rome Statute and appear on the United Nations Statistics Division’s list of developing regions.

Candidates eligible for funding shall receive detailed information and further instructions after the selection process is finalized. Stipends will always be agreed at the time of offering the internship. No funding will be provided at a later stage.

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