Associate Electronic Evidence Officer (P-2) (24497)

Overview

The Associate Electronic Evidence Officer will supervise technicians and processes for securing electronic evidence, write technical scripts and programs for data transformation, and analyze data structures to assist investigation teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Supervise technicians and processes associated with securing electronic evidence at the seat of the Court;
• Write technical scripts and programs that transform the structure of data to become useful in the Office’s evidence management systems;
• Translate the objectives of investigations into technical activities to assist teams in their examination of electronic content;
• Interact with teams to assist in the assessment of the significance of an electronic electronic device and the identification of relevant information;
• Analyse and understand the structures and purposes of collected data and advise teams on appropriate measures to extract relevant information while maintaining forensic integrity of the evidence;
• Populate evidence selection systems to allow teams to select potentially relevant items for registration as evidence;
• Assist in the preparation, ingestion, and processing of digital materials including structured and unstructured data, namely: Enrich A/V material, including format conversion, fingerprinting, transcript alignment, voice isolation, and other forms of audio-video enhancement. Apply OCR, face detection, and/or translation enrichment, ensuring multilingual data is tagged/searchable and facilitate integration of human or machine-generated translations (including post-processing), maintaining traceability and ensuring translated materials align with the source data.
• Assist with the preparation and processing for disclosure by applying and validating redactions, tagging material for disclosure categories, and ensuring proper formatting and packaging in line with Registry and Court standards. Participate in quality control and final validation checks;
• Other duties as required.

Required Experience

A minimum of two years of relevant professional experience (four years with a first-level university degree) in eDiscovery, digital evidence, or legal technology setting is required. Familiarity with the EDRM framework and chain of custody protocols is required. RelativityOne Skilled certification (such as any of the following: Relativity Analytics Specialist, Relativity Data Management Specialist, Relativity Infrastructure Specialist, Relativity Processing Specialist, Relativity Project Management Specialist, or Relativity Review Management Specialist) is required; Experience supporting RelativityOne or similar platforms (e.g., Nuix, iPro) in a technical or user-support capacity is required; Experience in a legal, investigative, and/or law enforcement environment, of which at least one is at the international level, is preferred; Experience in gathering, documenting, and assessing case-related user requirements is required; Experience in electronic evidence acquisition, handling, analysis, and exploitation, including chain of custody, provenance, verification, and authenticity, is required; Experience in data transformation, indexing, or analytics tools is preferred; Experience in handling sensitive or confidential information is required; Experience in supervision of staff is desirable.

Qualifications

An advanced university degree in data science, computer science, information science, computer programming, business management, law, social science, or other relevant field, is required. A first level university degree in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience is accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.

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