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.
Qualifications
- 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.
How to Apply
