Knowledge Management and Collective Intelligence Expert at United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Under the supervision of the Head of the Collective Intelligence Unit, the Knowledge Management and Collective Intelligence Expert will: Provide Legal expertise to the development of knowledge tools of the Environmental Governance Sub-programme including the further development/refinement of legal toolkits and other content on the UNEP-LEAP Montevideo V Programme website, and facilitate the further development and expansion to stakeholders of the Negotiator’s Toolkit and Global Goals sections of the InforMEA platform.
• Provide Legal and Taxonomic expertise to support Semantic indexing and retrieval on InforMEA, LEAP and other related platforms, and for the conversion, tagging and presentation of Akomo Ntoso/machine-readable content.

Qualifications/special skills

• An advanced university degree (master’s degree, or equivalent) in international environmental law is required. A first-level university degree in Law combined with two years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
• A minimum of 10 years of progressive working experience in Law, including Legal analysis, research and writing, is required.
• Experience at the international level, including with the United Nations system organizations is desirable.
• Excellent Taxonomy development and legal curation experience is required. This includes direct working experience in the development of specialist online tools and guides for policy makers and other key environmental law stakeholders, plus the effective presentation and tagging/indexing of online legislation and other datasets.