Legal Officer P4, LEGC

Overview

To provide sound legal advice, services, and representation on complex legal matters to protect the interests of the organization and minimize liabilities, while serving as the lead officer in specialized legal areas.

Tasks Summary

• Serve as a lead officer in one or more areas of concentration and independently handle multi-discipline and highly complex legal matters.
• Deliver expert legal advice on governance, privileges and immunities, and institutional agreements.
• Develop policies, directives, guidelines, procedures and other internal or corporate documents.
• Provide legal advice on diverse and complex procedural questions, draft and negotiate complex contracts and agreements.
• Provide advice and participate in negotiations and settlement of claims and disputes.
• Undertake extensive legal research and analysis and prepare legal opinions, studies, briefs, reports and complex correspondence.
• Provide efficient legal services on various standing boards, committees, working groups and task forces and represent organization at meetings, conferences and other events.
• Facilitate increased awareness of potential liability exposure and proactive minimization of risk.
• Build productive partnerships with other Legal Offices across UN system.
• Supervise, coach and build capacity of other staff.

Experience Requirements

At least eight years or more (three of which international) of relevant progressively responsible experience in law and provision of a wide range of legal services including to the senior managers or important clients. Experience in advising on governance matters or international organizations is desirable. Strong experience in international public law is also desirable.

Qualification Requirements

Advanced University degree in Law, or First University degree in Law with additional relevant experience and training in private, commercial or public Law. Must be qualified to practice or admitted to practice by a recognized national or state bar or law society.

Other Details

Languages Required: Fluency (level C) in English language.

Languages Preferred: Intermediate knowledge (level B) of a second official UN language: Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, Spanish, and/or Portuguese (a WFP working language).

Contract Duration: fixed-term contract with a probationary period of one year

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