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Legal Officer (Temporary Job Opening)
- Job TypeContract
- QualificationBA/BSc/HND , MBA/MSc/MA
- Experience7 years
- LocationNairobi
- Job FieldLaw / Legal 
Responsibilities
- Under the supervision of the Chief of the Appeals Section, the Legal Officer will be responsible for the following duties:
- Serves as a lead officer handling appeals, from field operations, notably from MINUSMA. Independently handles a wide range of multi-discipline and complex legal matters involving issues of international, public, private, and administrative law, to include interpretation and application of instruments in that area of concentration.
- Provides legal advice on diverse substantive and procedural questions of considerable complexity, which may include those related to administration and management, institutions support, procurement and contracts, peacekeeping and other operational matters, separately administered programmes and funds, criminal investigations, and prosecutions, etc.
- Performs extensive legal research and analysis and prepares legal opinions, studies, briefs, reports, indictments, and correspondence; provides legal advice to the division.
- Prepares legal submissions/motions as necessary in the course of investigations and prosecutions.
- Services 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.
- Reviews, advises on and drafts complex legal documents; develops new legal modalities to meet unique needs/circumstances.
- Advises on and participates in negotiations and settlement of claims and disputes, or pleas of guilty, to include establishing strategy and approach, deciding on the legal text for terms and conditions of contracts, on the recommendations on the merit of claims, etc.
- Provides legal advice on the interpretation and application of staff regulations and rules, including the review of administrative decisions; prepares draft amendments to the staff regulations and rules; prepares draft administrative issuances or amendments thereto and verifies their consistency with the existing staff regulation and rules; prepares analyses and evaluations of human resources policies and practices in consultation with the Human Resources Policy Section of OHR
- Represents the organization on more complex cases before arbitral and other tribunal or administrative proceedings, including disciplinary cases.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Education
- 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.
Work Experience
- A minimum of seven (7) years of progressively responsible legal experience is required.
- Of the seven years, two years of experience in litigation at the international level and first-hand experience appearing and leading evidence of witnesses before a court, tribunal, or equivalent administrative boards or bodies is required.
- Experience in handling disciplinary matters in the context of field operations of the United Nations or other similar international; organization is desirable.
- Experience, at the international level, in administrative and/or employment and labour law is desirable.
- Experience with staff regulations and rules, policies, procedures and operations of the United Nations or other similar international organization is desirable.
Method of Application Interested and qualified? Go to United Nations on careers.un.org to apply
