Job Description
Duties and Responsibilities
Further to relevant mandates from the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (COP), UNODC started, in 2010, the development of the knowledge management portal known as SHERLOC (Sharing Electronic Resources and Laws on Crime).
SHERLOC is a UNODC on-going initiative aimed at facilitating the dissemination of information regarding the implementation of the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (UNTOC) and the Protocols thereto.
SHERLOC has become:
- A practitioner’s tool for police investigators, prosecutors and judges
- A monitoring tool for government policy-makers
- An awareness-raising tool for the public and media
- An information tool for researchers, legal drafters and all those responding to transnational organized crime
SHERLOC currently hosts six databases:
- Case Law Database
- Database of Legislation
- Bibliographic Database
- Directory of Competent National Authorities
- Database of Strategies
- Database on Treaties
SHERLOC also hosts:
The electronic version of the Legislative Guide, to assist States seeking to ratify or implement the Organized Crime Convention
Education for Universities (Edu4U) teaching modules, supporting university lecturers in teaching organized crime-related thematic areas
The internship is located in the Global Programme on Implementing the Organized Crime Convention in the Conference Support Section (CSS), Organized Crime and Illicit Trafficking Branch (OCB), Division for Treaty Affairs (DTA), United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Vienna, Austria.
The Intern will report to the Officer supervising the SHERLOC Project.
The internship is UNPAID and full-time (five days per week, 40 hours) under the supervision of a staff member.
For more information on the work of UNODC, visit: www.unodc.org
The intern shall undertake the following duties (may include, but are not limited to):
- Conduct legal research on aspects related to organized crime, and contribute to the preparation of background documents, presentations and summaries
- Upload laws, case law and other documents to the SHERLOC knowledge management portal
- Assist in the review of legal documents on organized crime
- Assist in the preparation of inter-governmental meetings
- Attend and take notes at meetings
Qualifications / Special Skills
- Applicants must meet one of the following requirements:
- Be enrolled in, or have recently completed, a graduate school programme (second university degree or equivalent, or higher)
- Be enrolled in, or have recently completed, the final academic year of a first university degree programme (minimum bachelor’s degree or equivalent)
- Field of study in law or a related area is required, preferably with a specialization in criminal law, criminal procedure law, or criminology.
- Familiarity with transnational criminal law is an asset.
- No professional work experience required, but a relevant field of study is required.
- Applicants must:
- Be a student in the final year of a first university degree (bachelor or equivalent), Master’s, or Ph.D. programme, or have completed one of these programmes
- Indicate which eligibility criteria they meet and attach proof to the application (official certificate to be provided later)
- Good knowledge of standard software applications (MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Teams) is required.
- Knowledge of data management software applications is an advantage.
Languages
- English and French are the working languages of the United Nations Secretariat.
- Fluency in spoken and written English is required for the internship.
- Knowledge of an additional official UN language is an advantage.
- Official UN languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish.
DEADLINE: AUGUST 24, 2025
