Overview
The Head of the Legal Division assumes a leading responsibility on ICRC legal matters both externally and internally, ensures excellency and consistency of the ICRC, supervises the management of all the Division’s units, and ensures the liaison with the pool of legal advisers in the field.
Tasks Summary
- Plays a leadership role in defining and developing the Legal Division’s priorities and strategic orientations.
- Manages in a participative manner their subordinate, in particular the heads of unit.
- Ensures adequate information flows among division members and record-keeping for institutional purposes.
- Has direct financial responsibilities for the division budget.
- Leads in proposing a prospective vision on the role of international humanitarian law.
- Defines global legal positions of and potential policy implications for the ICRC.
- Establishes priorities and defines strategic action plans and institutional positions.
- Ensures institutional coherence in major issues of IHL and other relevant norms and the provision of timely and adequate legal advice on operational issues.
- Engages with key and high-level external stakeholders on institutional legal issues.
- Represents and engages the ICRC on legal issues with key and high-level institutional interlocutors and in multilateral fora.
- Provides leadership in the development of an outreach strategy for the ICRC’s legal work and positions.
- Contributes and assists the Director of the Department in defining the departmental strategic and political orientations.
Experience Requirements
- Typically 15+ years professional experience
- Confirmed experience in carrying out a job with varied substantive and managerial responsibilities.
- Confirmed experience in managing and/or implementing ICRC programmes at Headquarters or in the field an asset
Qualification Requirements
• PhD or Master’s degree in law, or equivalent, with confirmed expertise in IHL and other relevant norms
