Description
Job Description
As a post-master legal trainee within the Sentence Enforcement Office, you analyse and monitor cases of convicted persons from the implementation of the criminal sentence until their final release.
You always act in accordance with our values: "Loyalty, Solidarity, Credibility".
Responsibilities
- Collaborate in the management of sentence enforcement and penal measures and address legal issues concerning convicted persons.
- Provide support to the OEP Directorate regarding legal matters related to the management of criminal sentences, including drafting decisions or referrals to judicial authorities.
- Accompany legal professionals at interdisciplinary meetings concerning convicted persons under the authority of the OEP as well as their hearings.
For further information, please contact Ms Eliane Cornu, legal expert, at 021 316 48 07.
Qualifications
- Holder of a Bachelor and a university Master’s degree in law, respectively in magistracy or criminology.
- Excellent writing and synthesis skills.
- Very comfortable with IT tools.
- Knowledge of a foreign language is desirable.
- Strong interest in criminal law and the enforcement of sentences and measures, with already good theoretical knowledge in this area.
- Empathetic, rigorous, very good stress resistance, able to maintain the necessary distance from detainees.
6-month internship, paid CHF 1,810.- / month
Our employment conditions require you to be Swiss or hold a C permit, free of debt enforcement records (an extract from the Debt Collection Office must be presented during the process), and your criminal record must be clean. There is a right to consult the criminal record under the Federal Law on the Criminal Record by the hiring authority for this position.
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- Publication Date29/06/2026 07:53
- LocationPenthalaz, Gros-de-Vaud, Switzerland
- Apply by12/07/2026 21:55
- Start Date1st September 2026 or to be agreed
- Salary Grade-
- Contract TypeFixed-term monthly auxiliary contract
- Work Rate80-100%
- AddressPenitentiary Service
Human Resources Unit
Chemin de l'Islettaz, Building A
1305 Penthalaz
spen.candidatures@vd.ch
