Amnesty International Digital Forensics Fellowship 2025 (Stipend available) – YOA

Deadline: January 23, 2025

Applications are open for the Amnesty International Digital Forensics Fellowship 2025. Amnesty Tech – a world collective of advocates, hackers, researchers, and technologists – is worked up to announce the launch of the third Digital Forensics Fellowship (DFF).

This progressive Fellowship is an OPPORTUNITY for five – 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 abilities 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.  

Participants within the Digital Forensics Fellowship will be anticipated to: 

• Attend an in-particular person, week-lengthy convening the place the vast majority of trainings shall be performed. This coaching will happen in June 2025, the precise location is ready to be confirmed shortly.
• Dedicate roughly 10 – 12 hours per thirty days to the Fellowship, outdoors of the convening, by taking part in distant coaching classes and thru impartial work outdoors of scheduled classes to deepen understanding of coaching subjects.
• Engage with the programme cohort and the Security Lab in the course of the in-particular person and distant trainings, and in dialogue teams on an advert-hoc foundation.

Benefits

• Successful candidates shall be given a stipend of £500/month for his or her time.

Eligibility

• Applicants ought to have 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 determine digital assaults in opposition to civil society, with the aim 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 information.
• An understanding of how web infrastructure works, for instance the position of IP addresses, TLS certificates, and DNS queries.
• Technical familiarity with GNU/Linux working techniques, in addition to Android and iPhone techniques.
• Engaging with the English language as the first language all through the Fellowship.  

Application

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

• A duplicate of your most up-to-date CV.  
• 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. 

Click here to apply

For extra data, go to Digital Forensics Fellowship.