Legal Officer, P3 at United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

Responsibilities

• Provide legal and procedural support to the intersessional INC process
• Provide legal support to the process to INC Secretariat towards preparations and conduct of intergovernmental meetings.
• Conduct research into substantive and procedural legal questions; including advice on rules of procedure.
• Preparation of pre-session documents that address legal questions, including drafts texts of a legal instrument.
• Provides legal and procedural support to the in-session processes of the INC
• Supports the INC Bureau
• Supports the servicing of meetings, for example sessions of the INC, Heads of Delegation meeting
• Supports preparation of procedural advice on the conduct of business of the INC
• Respond to in-session legal questions that may arise
• Undertakes basic or extensive review of legal documents, instruments, or other material; identifies important issues, similarities, and inconsistencies, etc. Prepares or assists in the preparation of drafts of background papers, studies, reports, legislative texts and commentaries on those texts, teaching materials in the field of international trade law and private international law, etc.
• Prepares or assists in the preparation of legal opinions/advice on a wide range of international public or private law issues, including the United Nations Charter, General Assembly resolutions and decisions involving, inter alia, issues relating to privileges and immunities, peace and security, criminal prosecutions, institutional questions, treaty law and practice, procedural issues arising during meetings of United Nations organs, constitutional and administrative law of the Organization.
• Prepares or assists in the preparation of agreements and contracts with governments, NGOs and other public and private entities, as well as in the negotiation and settlement of claims and disputes and in handling private international law and international trade law matters.
• Reviews, advises on and drafts indictments or legal motions/submissions.
• Assesses evidence for relevance and admissibility.
• Prepares and assesses briefs of evidence.
• Provide legal and technical support in the operations of the INC Secretariat
• Handles a range of issues related to constitutional, international, public, private, administrative, and, for Tribunals, criminal (substantive, procedural and comparative) law, including the interpretation and application of constitutive, legislative and other instruments governing United Nations activities and operations, in consultation with senior Legal Officers or Prosecuting Trial Attorneys.
• Conducts extensive legal research and analysis and prepare studies, comparative studies, briefs, reports and correspondence.
• Services or assists senior colleagues in servicing diplomatic conferences, commissions, committees, task forces, expert groups and other bodies, including preparation of background materials, summaries of issues and views of delegations, meeting reports, etc.
• • Assists in representing the Organization before arbitral and other tribunals or administrative proceedings, including disciplinary cases, in Tribunals, acts on behalf of the Prosecutor as junior co-counsel in proceedings before Trial or Appeal Chambers.
• Provides legal advice on human resources matters, and reviews administrative matters.
• Administers programmes of legal technical assistance.
• Prepares or assists with the preparation of international trade law seminars and symposia, lecture on various legal issues at such events.
• Provides guidance to more junior staff.
• Collects and analyzes data to identify trends or patterns and provide insights through graphs, charts, tables and reports using data visualization methods to enable data-driven planning, decision-making, presentation and reporting.
• Performs other duties as may be assigned.

Job - Specific Qualification

• Admission to the practice of law in the Member State of the candidate's nationality or in another Member State of the United Nations is required.

Work Experience

• A minimum of five (5) years of progressively responsible experience in law, including legal analysis, research and writing including at least two (2) years of service with the legal office of a government department or ministry or of the secretariat of an international organization with a specialization in international law, procedures of intergovernmental meetings and governance, is required.
• Experience in professional legal work relating to the rules of procedure and institutional questions of intergovernmental bodies administered by the United Nations that focus on the environment is required.
• Experience with Staff Regulations and Rules, policies, procedures and operations of the United Nations or other similar international organization is desirable.
• A minimum of two (2) years or more of experience in data analytics or related area is desirable.