Chief, Law and Justice Section (S3)

Overview

The Chief, Law and Justice Section oversees the Section's core functions including monitoring, legal and policy engagement, institutional engagement, reporting, advocacy and programmatic delivery. The role involves coordinating and directing the work of respective teams and is responsible for all budgetary and non-budgetary activities of the Law and Justice Section.

Key Responsibilities

• Co-ordinating and directing LJS short- and mid-term strategy across the Section's core functions.
• Liaising with other programmatic sections of the Department, Regional Centres and LJS field staff, as well as other departments and offices of the Mission.
• Designing and implementing relevant LJS advocacy and projects, ensuring coherence and effectiveness, and overseeing monitoring and internal evaluation.
• Providing substantive legal and policy oversight on issues falling within the LJS mandate.
• Conceptualising, editing, and overseeing the drafting of all LJS regular, thematic, and ad hoc reports.
• Chairing relevant advocacy meetings with local and international stakeholders.
• Representing the Mission at high-level fora, donor meetings, and inter-agency co-ordination platforms.
• Contributing to Mission-wide and departmental strategic planning.
• Meeting with officials of Kosovo institutions and other relevant counterparts.
• Handling all staff management matters, including recruitment, performance management, disciplinary processes, and training for LJS staff.

Required Experience

Minimum 6 years of relevant, diversified and progressively responsible professional experience including at least 3 years at the management level relevant to the actual position. At least 10 years of courtroom experience (as a prosecutor, judge, advocate/lawyer, judicial clerk, or trial monitor) or in judicial reform, capacity building, or advocacy with human rights institutions (such as an Ombudsperson institution or National Human Rights Institution (NHRI)), dealing with human rights. Experience in drafting, editing, and commenting on legal documents. Demonstrated experience in planning, managing, and overseeing complex multi-stakeholder projects, including budget formulation, monitoring, and reporting, in a human rights or rule of law context; at least 5 years required. At least 5 years of experience managing and supervising multi-disciplinary teams, including in geographically dispersed or field-based environments. Demonstrated capacity for tact, discretion, and constructive stakeholder engagement. Ability to operate Windows applications, including word processing and e-mail.

Qualifications

Second-level university degree/certified training course in law or significant work experience in criminal justice and/or law enforcement. A first-level university degree in combination with two years of additional qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the second-level university degree. Second-level university degree in law.

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