Overview
Serve as a lead officer handling appeals matters and provide legal advice on complex legal issues. The role involves legal research, analysis, and preparation of legal documents.
Key Responsibilities
- Serve as a lead officer handling appeals matters.
- Independently handle a wide range of multi-discipline and complex legal matters.
- Provide legal advice on diverse substantive and procedural questions.
- Perform extensive legal research and analysis and prepare legal opinions, studies, briefs, reports, indictments, and correspondence.
- Prepare legal submissions/motions as necessary.
- Service diplomatic conferences, commissions, committees, task forces, expert groups, and other bodies.
- Review, advise on and drafts complex legal documents.
- Develop new legal modalities to meet unique needs/circumstances.
- Advise on and participate in negotiations and settlement of claims and disputes.
- Provide legal advice on the interpretation and application of staff regulations and rules.
- Prepare draft amendments to the staff regulations and rules.
- Prepare draft administrative issuances or amendments thereto.
- Verify consistency with existing staff regulations and rules.
- Prepare analyses and evaluations of human resources policies and practices.
- Represent the organization on more complex cases before arbitral and other tribunal or administrative proceedings.
- Serve on various standing boards, committees, ad hoc working groups and task forces, as required.
- Promote the work of the United Nations and represent the organization at meetings, conferences, seminars, etc.
- Coordinate and direct teams of other legal officers.
- Mentor and supervise the work of junior officers on specific projects.
- Contribute to review and design of new, or new applications of, legal instruments, policy, guidelines, etc.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Required Experience
A minimum of seven years of progressively responsible legal experience is required. Of the seven years, two years of experience in litigation at the international level and first-hand experience appearing and leading evidence of witnesses before a court, tribunal, or equivalent administrative boards or bodies is required. Experience, at the international level, in administrative and/or employment and labour law is required. Experience with staff regulations and rules, policies, procedures and operations of the United Nations or other similar international organization is desirable.
Qualifications
Advanced university degree (Master’s degree or equivalent) in law is required. A first-level university degree (Bachelor’s degree or equivalent) in combination with two additional of relevant work experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
