Summary
Date Posted: Friday, June 07 2024, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Duties and Responsibilities
• Org. Setting and Reporting The Registry of the United Nations International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (“Mechanism”) invites applications for internships with the Library starting from 01 July 2024 to 31 December 2024 in Arusha, United Republic of Tanzania.
• The Mechanism was established by the Security Council of the United Nations in 2010 to carry out a number of essential functions of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (“ICTR”) and the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (“ICTY”), after the completion of their respective mandates.
• The Registry, operating from both branches of the Mechanism, located in The Hague,
• The Netherlands, and in Arusha, the United Republic of Tanzania, provides administrative, legal, policy and diplomatic support services.
• The Registry’s main duties include the provision of administrative services to the Mechanism, including court support services; the supervision of the enforcement of sentences; monitoring of cases referred to national courts; preservation of and access to ICTR, ICTY and Mechanism archives; the protection of victims and witnesses; and assistance to national jurisdictions.
• The internship is located in the Library of the Mechanism’s Registry in Arusha, and under the direct supervision of the Library Assistant.
• The library offers a wide selection of books covering various fields including international law, international criminal law, genocide, and human rights.
• Additionally, the library offers a diverse range of services such as Online Public Access Catalogues, document delivery via email for both internal and external users, as well as in-person reference services and research assistance tailored to individual user needs information including:
• Programme Guidelines; internship programme; and
• Terms and Conditions of the Mechanism’s Internship Programme. Responsibilities Under the supervision of the Library Assistant, interns provide the following support:
• Assist in compiling daily news summaries from local, regional, and international media sources, including radio, TV, newspapers, press conferences, and interviews;
• Assist in public relations and protocol services;
• Assist in library activities such as locating online journal articles, responding to reference queries and carrying out circulation tasks;
• Assist in the planning and implementation of Mechanism’s public relations activities, including drafting social media messaging and researching archival material for supporting visuals and outreach related to court activity;
• Assist in responding to information requests and inquiries;
• Assist in preparations for official visits;
• Research, compilation and presenting basic information for use in the preparation and production of communications products/services;
• Process information by cataloguing and indexing library materials and maintaining the library management system;
• Providing guidance to library users;
• Daily library administration; and
• Other duties as assigned by the Library Assistant.

Qualifications/special skills
• Candidates must at the time of application meet one of the following requirements:
• Be enrolled in, or have completed, the final academic year of a first university degree programme (minimum bachelor’s level or equivalent)
• Be enrolled in, or have completed, a graduate school programme (second university degree (Master Degree) or equivalent, or higher).
• The degree must be in a relevant field, such as library/information science, information management, communications, journalism, multimedia studies or similar.
• No working experience is required to apply for the United Nations Internship Programme. Your training, education, advance course work or skills should benefit the United Nations during your internship. Knowledge of major social media platforms is required. Knowledge of photography and/or audio-visual production is desirable.
• Applicants must be computer literate in standard software applications.

Languages
• English and French are the working languages of the Mechanism. Fluency in oral and written English is required. Knowledge of French, Kinyarwanda or Kiswahili is desirable.


Job Experience: No Requirements

Work Hours: 8

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Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

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