Legal Officer NGO Job UN-Habitat

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Responsibilities

• Advises and handles complex legal and policy issues on a wide range of areas related to human settlements, housing, water sanitations and infrastructure projects, constitutional, international, public, private, administrative, and, for Tribunals, (substantive, procedural and comparative) law, including the interpretation and application of constitutive, legislative and other instruments governing UN-Habitat’s activities and operations;
• Conducts extensive legal research and analysis and prepare studies, comparative studies, briefs, reports and correspondence relating on a wide range of legal issues. sustainable human settlements, the core focus areas of UN-Habitat’s work and the framework for the New Urban Agenda;
• Undertakes basic or extensive review of legal documents, instruments, or other material relating to sustainable human settlements, the core focus areas of UN-Habitat’s work for the New Urban Agenda and identifies important issues, similarities, and inconsistencies, etc.;
• Prepares or assists in the preparation of drafts of background documents, papers, studies, reports, legislative texts and commentaries on those texts, teaching materials relating to UN-Habitat’s work, its internal policies and procedures and in the field of international law;
• Prepares or assists in the preparation of legal opinions/advice on a wide range of legal issues involving international public or private law, human settlements projects, activities incidental to the implementation of UN-Habitat’s mandate 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 and review of agreements and contracts with governments, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) and other public and private entities, as well as in the negotiation and settlement of claims and disputes arising from such agreements and contracts;
• Assists colleagues in servicing meetings of the governing bodies, diplomatic conferences, commissions, committees, task forces, expert groups and other bodies, including provision of advice, preparation of background materials, summaries of issues and views of delegations, meeting reports, etc.;
• Assists in representing the Organization in legal disputes by providing written briefs, motions/submissions and in oral proceedings before arbitral and other tribunals or administrative proceedings, including disciplinary cases and other matters before the Management Evaluation Unit (MEU) and the United Nations Dispute Tribunal (UNDT);
• Reviews, advises on and drafts legal briefs, submissions and pleadings before the UNDT and United Nations Appeals Tribunal (UNAT);
• Provides legal advice on human resources matters; reviews administrative matters;
• Prepares or assists with the preparation of administrative and international law of the United Nations seminars and symposia, lecture on various legal issues at such events;
• Provides guidance and supervise newly recruited personnel in the Legal Unit;
• Carries out the necessary administrative duties for maintaining the Legal Unit’s database (electronic and online), posting and retrieving of legal materials;
• 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 assigned by the Head of the Legal Unit.

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Education

• Advanced university degree (Master’s degree or equivalent) in international relations and/or law is required.
• A first-level university degree 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.

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