Amnesty International Digital Forensics Fellowship 2025 for emerging leaders (£500 monthly stipend )

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Application Deadline: : 23 January 2025

Applications are actually open for the 2025 Amnesty International Digital Forensics Fellowship. This modern Fellowship is a chance for 5 – 7 human rights defenders (HRDs), journalists, and/or technologists working in civil society organisations around the globe to coach with Amnesty Tech’s Security Lab to construct expertise and data on superior digital threats and forensic investigation strategies. This is a part-time Fellowship that may final 3-4 months and can include a stipend.  

Fellowship begin and finish date: The Fellowship is predicted to run from April – July 2025. 

Location: Global dependent upon the acceptable applicant’s location. 

Remuneration: Successful candidates will likely be given a stipend of £500/month for their time.

Since 2017, Amnesty Tech’s investigations have uncovered huge and well-orchestrated digital assaults in opposition to activists and journalists in international locations resembling Morocco, Egypt, Azerbaijan, Qatar, Serbia, Mexico and Pakistan.  

Objectives and deliverables 

• Participants within the Digital Forensics Fellowship will be anticipated to: 
• Engage with the programme cohort and the Security Lab through the in-person and distant trainings, and in dialogue teams on an ad-hoc foundation. 
• Attend an in-person, week-long convening the place the vast majority of trainings will likely be performed. This coaching will happen in June 2025, the precise location is about to be confirmed shortly.
• Dedicate roughly 10 – 12 hours per thirty days to the Fellowship, exterior of the convening, by collaborating in distant coaching classes and thru impartial work exterior of scheduled classes to deepen understanding of coaching matters. 

Essential Requirements 

• An understanding of the technical threats, digital assaults and challenges confronted by journalists, HRDs, and civil society organisations of their native contexts.
• Demonstrated curiosity in conducting investigations to establish digital assaults in opposition to civil society, with the objective of constructing resilience amongst civil society actors within the face of surveillance after the Fellowship.
• Familiarity utilizing command line instruments and primary data of scripting languages like Bash and Python to analyse knowledge.
• An understanding of how web infrastructure works, for instance the function of IP addresses, TLS certificates, and DNS queries.
• Technical familiarity with GNU/Linux working methods, in addition to Android and iPhone methods.
• Engaging with the English language as the first language all through the Fellowship.  

Application directions: 

To apply, candidates will likely be required to submit the next by way of our recruitment system eArcu - please add all related paperwork to the CV part of the application portal.  

1. A duplicate of your most up-to-date CV.  
2. A canopy letter explaining your motivation and curiosity within the Fellowship and outlining the way you meet the important necessities outlined within the job description. 

Applications should be in PDF, Word, PowerPoint or Excel format.  

Application Process:  

• Shortlisted candidates will be invited to finish a report video interview week commencing tenth February, answering a collection of pre-set questions by way of video, which permits us to be taught extra about you and your suitability for the Fellowship.
• Successful candidates from this course of will be invited to a Microsoft Teams interview with the panel week commencing third March. 

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the Amnesty International Digital Forensics Fellowship