JOB DESCRIPTION

24255 | Registry

Organisational Unit:: Gender Equality Focal Point

Duty Station:: The Hague – NL

Contract Duration:: Six months

Deadline for Applications:: 20 February 2026 (midnight the Hague time)

Due to the volume of applications received, only successful applicants will be contacted by the Court.

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 400 words in French or English).
• Two reference letters (one academic).
• Scanned copies of university degrees and/or diplomas.
• Scanned copies of official academic transcripts that state your courses, subject, results and completion date.
• One short essay on a subject relevant to the work of the Court (maximum of 750 words, single spaced, type written).

Contract Duration

Interns are required to work full time for a period of six months (to be agreed to prior to commencement). Internship placements shall not be extended beyond six months.

The Opportunity

The International Criminal Court (ICC) investigates and, where warranted, tries individual charges with the gravest crimes of concerns to the international community: genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and crime of aggression. The Court is participating in the global fight to end impunity, and through the international criminal justice, the Court aims to hold those responsible accountable for their crimes and to help prevent the crimes from happening again. You can contribute to this cause by joining the ICC.

Organisational Context

The President, the Prosecutor and the Registrar have agreed as a priority to establish a Focal Point for Gender Equality (“Focal Point”) at the International Criminal Court. The purpose of the Focal Point will be, inter alia, to assist the Principals in improving the development of Court-wide gender policies and to assist in addressing gender issues related to conditions of employment at the Court.

The Focal Point would accomplish this through six main functions: (i) monitoring, (ii) advocacy, (iii) individual counselling; (iv) raising awareness; (v) advising on gender parity targets; and (vi) role in recruitment and selection processes.

Duties and Responsibilities

Under the direct supervision of the Focal Point, the intern will perform the following duties:

• Conduct background research on gender equality, gender parity and gender mainstreaming related issues, assist in the preparation of policy and briefing notes.
• Assist in the preparation and design of knowledge products and advocacy materials, brochures, newsletters, Intranet page content, etc.
• Assist in monitoring, evaluating and reporting on gender equality and gender mainstreaming activities.
• Help to organize events, internal coordination meetings and trainings.
• Update reference database and intranet resources, and perform other administrative tasks as required.
• Collaborate with the HR Section to identify and support gender related improvement projects
• Provide support to the Focal Point, as requested.

Essential Qualifications

Education:

All candidates must have a degree or be in the final stages of a relevant study at a recognised university. Candidates with a background in Gender Studies, Social Studies, Business Administration, Communication Studies, Communication Science, and International Development with a gender focus are strongly encouraged to apply as this will be considered an asset. Candidates are expected to have a very good record of academic performance.

Experience:

Internship placements focus on candidates in the early stages of their professional careers; therefore practical experience is not an essential prerequisite for selection. However, practical experience that is relevant to the work of the Court may be considered an asset.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• 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). Graphic design and webpage management skills are considered as an asset.
• Possesses excellent report writing/drafting and communication skills.

Knowledge of Languages:
Proficiency in one of the working languages of the Court, French or English, is required. Working knowledge of the other is desirable. Knowledge of another official language of the Court (Arabic, Chinese, Russian or Spanish) is considered an asset.

Other criteria:
It is the Court’s objective to have diversity and gender balance. And in line with the ICC’s efforts to improve geographical representation among staff, nationals of non-represented and under-represented countries at the ICC are encouraged to apply. The list can be found here.

Remuneration

Please note that internship and visiting professional placements at the ICC are unfunded. The ICC is not able to provide participants in the Internship and Visiting Professional Programme with any remuneration, nor is it possible to provide reimbursement for expenses incurred prior, during or after the internship or visiting professional placement.

Applicants must therefore be able to support themselves for the entire duration of their internship or visiting professional placement.

Limited funding may, however, be available through the ICC’s Trust Fund for the Development of Interns and Visiting Professionals, which receives donations from States Parties and other donors.

If funding is available, the Human Resources Section will advertise a funded vacancy announcement in accordance with the terms of reference of the Trust Fund as agreed by the donors.

In order to be eligible for a funded placement, if advertised, the applicant must, among other criteria, be a national from a country that is a State Party to the Rome Statue and appears on the United Nations Statistics Division’s list of developing regions.