University Intern International Legal Assistance

Bern (and Homeoffice) | 80-100% |

This is your contribution

• Perform summary preliminary examinations of foreign legal assistance requests and delegate them to the competent enforcement authorities
• Examine and forward Swiss legal assistance requests abroad
• Participate in national and international sharing cases
• Control decisions of the Swiss legal assistance authorities, carry out legal clarifications, draft decisions and consultations for the courts
• Create official documents for domestic and foreign law enforcement authorities

What makes you unique

• Master's degree in Law (MLaw)
• Swiss citizenship is considered a requirement for employment
• Solid knowledge of the legal field, especially criminal law
• Editorial and communicative skills; exact, structured and independent way of working as well as the ability to implement legal knowledge practically
• Very good active knowledge of two official languages as well as English

In a nutshell

You will support the Fachbereich Rechtshilfe I (Seizure / Return of Assets) in all areas of work and will receive an in-depth insight into the administrative activities of an important federal authority during 6 months.

What we offer

• Working for Switzerland We are committed to the Swiss success model and work for the benefit of the population.
• Lived diversity Thanks to equal opportunity we develop our competencies and bring in different perspectives.
• Healthy at the workplace We support and advise our employees in the area of physical and mental health.

All benefits (https://www.stelle.admin.ch/stelle/de/home/bundesverwaltung/ihre-vorteile-auf-einen-blick.html)

The Bundesamt für Justiz (BJ) is the federal competence center for law. It manages, among other things, law-making projects in state, administrative, private and criminal law, accompanies all federal law-making transactions in an advisory capacity and is active in the international field. The BJ conducts its business in a multilingual environment.

Der Fachbereich Rechtshilfe I is particularly concerned with accompanying legal assistance procedures in the case of politically exposed persons as well as the seizure and return of assets. Furthermore, the transmission of spontaneous information, cooperation with international criminal courts and the sharing of confiscated assets are within its area of responsibility.

Additional information

Questions about the position

Michael Duttwiler
Chef RH I
+41 58 46 18878