Overview
The Legal Officer handles appeals and disciplinary matters, conducts legal research and analysis, and provides legal advice on human resources matters.
Key Responsibilities
- Handles appeals and disciplinary matters and a range of issues related to international, public, national, administrative law.
- Conducts extensive legal research and analysis and prepares legal opinions, studies, briefs, reports and correspondence.
- Undertakes basic or extensive review of legal documents, instruments, or other material.
- Prepares or assists in the preparation of drafts of background papers, studies, reports, legislative texts and commentaries.
- Prepares or assists in the preparation of legal submissions/motions.
- Assesses evidence for relevance and admissibility.
- Prepares and assesses briefs of evidence.
- Services or assists senior colleagues in servicing diplomatic conferences, commissions, committees, task forces, expert groups and other bodies.
- Represents or assists in representing the Organization before arbitral and other tribunals or administrative proceedings.
- Provides legal advice on human resources matters; reviews administrative matters.
- Provides guidance to more junior staff.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Required Experience
A minimum of five years of progressively responsible legal experience is required. Of the five years, two years of experience in litigation at the national or 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 in handling disciplinary matters in a large and complex national or international organization 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 years of relevant work experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
