Overview
Provide legal advice and services on institutional law and programme support, serving as a lead legal officer for a wide range of legal matters.
Key Responsibilities
- Serve as a lead legal officer and independently handle a wide range of legal matters.
- Provide legal advice on public international law, including mandate, status, governance, privileges and immunities of IOM, relationship with the UN, and legal aspects of operations and policies.
- Undertake legal research and analysis, preparing legal opinions, studies, and background notes.
- Draft, review, and provide legal support for negotiations of host country agreements.
- Provide legal support in connection with governing bodies’ meetings.
- Review and comment on organizational regulations, rules, policies, procedures, and guidelines.
- Provide support to LEG deliverables under its annual workplan.
- Supervise and coordinate the work of assigned legal officers.
Required Experience
- Seven years of relevant professional experience providing advice in public international law, of which at least five years within an international organization preferably in the UN system.
- In-depth experience handling legal matters related to the status, privileges and immunities, governance, mandate and operations of international organizations.
Qualifications
Master’s degree or equivalent in International Law or a related field from an accredited academic institution; or, Bachelor’s degree in above fields.
