Overview
Serve as a lead officer handling appeals matters and provide legal advice on complex legal issues.
Key Responsibilities
- Serve as a lead officer handling appeals matters.
- Independently handle a wide range of multi-discipline and complex legal matters.
- Provide legal advice on diverse substantive and procedural questions.
- Perform extensive legal research and analysis and prepare legal opinions, studies, briefs, reports, indictments, and correspondence.
- Prepare legal submissions/motions.
- Service diplomatic conferences, commissions, committees, task forces, expert groups, and other bodies.
- Review, advise on and draft complex legal documents.
- Advise on and participate in negotiations and settlement of claims and disputes.
- Provide legal advice on the interpretation and application of staff regulations and rules.
- Represent the organization on more complex cases before arbitral and other tribunal or administrative proceedings.
- Serve on various standing boards, committees, ad hoc working groups and task forces.
- Coordinate and direct teams of other legal officers.
- Contribute to review and design of new, or new applications of, legal instruments, policy, guidelines, etc.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Required Experience
A minimum of seven years of progressively responsible professional experience in the practice of law, including the provision of legal advice and the handling of complex legal matters, is required. Of the seven years of experience, at least two years in international litigation, including experience appearing before and leading witness evidence before a court, tribunal, or comparable administrative body, is required. Experience in administrative law and/or employment and labour law, preferably in an international or multicultural organizational setting, is required. Experience with human resources policies, administrative procedures, and organizational operations in an international organization is desirable.
Qualifications
Advanced university degree (Master's degree or equivalent) in law is required. A first-level university degree (Bachelor's degree or equivalent) in combination with two additional of relevant work experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
