International Legal Jobs: Senior Legal Officer, United Nations Environment Programme, Nairobi

International Legal Jobs: Senior Legal Officer, United Nations Environment Programme, Nairobi

Responsibilities

• Independently handle a wide range of multi-discipline, highly complex, and often sensitive and / or conflicting legal matters involving issues relating to international, public, private and administrative law, to include interpretation and application of instruments.
• Provide authoritative legal advice on diverse range of highly complex or novel substantive and procedural questions on UN administrative regulations and rules, which may include those related to administration, staff relations and management, institutions support, procurement and legal partnerships agreements with donors, implementing partners and multi-stakeholders platforms and initiatives as well other operational matters.
• Advise on and supervise the review, negotiation and drafting of major partnership agreements, institutional and operational modalities, legal submissions/motions, and other legal documents; develop new legal modalities to meet unique needs / circumstances.
• Identify policy gaps and propose development of instruments and guidelines to address these particularly as it relates to partnerships and special arrangements made with institutions for programme delivery.
• Organize and supervise research studies and the preparation of legal opinions, as well as perform extensive legal research and analysis on highly complex or novel legal issues /questions and prepare legal opinions, studies, briefs, reports, and correspondence.
• Ensure conduct and discipline cases are appropriately managed; acts as the key liaison officer for investigations managed by the Office of Internal Oversight services (OIOS); leads on management of assessments and investigative cases to be handled directly by UNEP.
• Supervise the defense and pursuit of claims on behalf of the organization; negotiate dispute settlements and prepare legal documentation relating to such settlements.
• Represent, supervise the representation of the organization before the Management Evaluation Unit (MEU) and the United Nations Dispute Tribunal (UNDT).
• Provide legal advice and training to senior officials and UNEP personnel at large on the interpretation of UN regulations and rules, including the review of administrative implications of MEU, UNDT and the United Nations Appeals Tribunal (UNAT) decisions.
• Lead the general management and administration of the Legal Unit in CSD, organize and prioritize the workload and provide general coordination and supervision of assignments as regards the legal work, including that of junior officers and managing the Unit’s budget.
• Serve on various standing boards, committees, ad hoc working groups and task forces, as required; promote the work of the United Nations and represents the organization at meetings, conferences and seminars.
• Leads team members efforts to collect and analyze data and provides insight to identify trends or patterns for data-driven planning, decision-making, presentation and reporting. Ensures that everyone can discover, access, integrate and share the data they need.
• Perform any other related duties assigned.

Education

An advanced university degree (Master’s degree or equivalent) in public law or related fields is required.

A first level university degree in law in combination with two (2) additional years of qualifying work experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.

Successful completion of both degree and non-degree programs in data analytics, business analytics or data science programs is desirable.

Work Experience

A minimum of ten (10) years of progressively responsible experience in law, including legal analysis, research and writing is required.

International experience in a multicultural setting is required.

A minimum of three (3) three years of leadership, supervision and management of teams is required.

Experience of preparing, coordinating and delivering trainings on international law, including UN regulations and rules or from similar international organization is required.

Experience in representing the organization in matters related to internal justice system is desirable.

Experience in the development of legal instruments is desirable.

Extensive experience and a thorough understanding of the United Nations system or other similar international organizations is desirable.

Experience in data analytics or related area is desirable.

Languages

English and French are the working languages of the United Nations Secretariat. For the post advertised, fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another United Nations official language is desirable.

Deadline: 13 July 2023

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