About Us
Global Rights Compliance, founded in 2013, is an international human rights law foundation specialising in international humanitarian law, international criminal law and business human rights. Global Rights Compliance’s mission is to provide justice through the innovative application of international law. We operate in conflict-affected and high-risk areas around the world in over 45 countries. With our main office in Kyiv, Ukraine, GRC is part of the Atrocity Crimes Advisory Group (ACA) initiated by the US, the EU, and the UK, to assist and facilitate Ukrainian law enforcement agencies in investigating and prosecuting international crimes. Special expert groups known as Mobile Justice Teams (MJTs) are composed of legal specialists and operate in both Kyiv and the regions to provide strategic advice and operational assistance to Ukraine’s Office of the Prosecutor General (OPG) in the investigation and prosecution of atrocity crimes in Ukraine.
Our legal specialists work closely with investigators and prosecutors to provide support in prosecuting international crimes, advising and assisting in the documentation, investigation, and prosecution.
GRC team members operate in senior roles as Prosecutors, Investigators, Lawyers and Legal Advisors leading and supporting major investigations and building prosecution cases with national prosecuting agencies on a global basis.
Starvation Track: GRC has a dedicated Starvation and Humanitarian Crisis Division. For the last six years, GRC has become the leading legal organization on prohibiting, preventing and seeking accountability for mass starvation and associated violations. We possess unrivalled expertise and granular knowledge of the crime of starvation, derived from a dedicated portfolio of analysis, accountability and investigative work. We have conducted multiple starvation investigations with partners and pursued advocacy and accountability documentation accurately and sensitively with often unseen datasets and political nuance, with extensive experience in partnering with OSINT providers to pursue innovative investigative avenues. Our principal geographic focus has been Syria, South Sudan and Yemen, Ethiopia, Ukraine with a more recent focus on Palestine. For more information on GRC’s starvation workstream, visit: https://starvationaccountability.org
We are seeking a Junior OSINT Researcher to join our international team. The Junior OSINT Researcher will have experience conducting open-source investigations and knowledge of international humanitarian law and international criminal law.
Duty Station: Remote.
Contract Duration: 4 months (with possible extension, subject to funding availability).
The Role
- Assistance in the collection of information for investigative purposes, with a specific focus on OSINT.
- Preservation of open source material collected by the team.
- Conduct legal research.
- Assistance in drafting project deliverable, including a report summarising preliminary investigative findings.
- Support the preparation of training.
Your Background
- 2+ years of relevant experience with open source investigations.
- Self-starter: can be given a ‘desired outcome’ and figure out the action areas required to reach it with minimal supervision.
- Flexible and creative; able to work in an unstructured, changeable & fast-moving environment; proactive; anticipating problems and solutions orientated.
- Practical thinker, able to break down and pursue the elements required to operationalise an investigative strategy.
- Administratively competent; able to manage competing urgent demands.
- Practical experience working with highly sensitive material and an ability to demonstrate the requisite skills in storing, sharing, and working with such material.
- Fluency in English and Ukrainian/Russian, written and verbal skills.
Desirable
- Experience working in/on a post-Soviet country/region, specifically Ukraine.
- Experience working with database and case management tools.
- Experience working with data visualisation tools.
- Advanced studies in public international law, ideally with a focus on international humanitarian law or international criminal law.
Note: Applicants should be aware that there may be a requirement to review graphic content.
How to apply
Please submit your CV and a short cover letter (in English) to Application Form – Junior OSINT Researcher by 21 January 2025.
Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.