Chief of Section, Legal Affairs

The Office of Legal Affairs seeks a P-5 Chief of Treaty Section in New York to lead treaty-law work and operations. The chief will formulate the Section work programme, manage resources and staff, oversee complex treaty-law research and legal advice, supervise depositary and registration functions, promote treaty participation, direct treaty data and publication systems, organize capacity devel...

• Formulate Treaty Section work programme and allocate resources
• Manage Section administration, budgets and staff performance
• Supervise treaty-law research, legal advice and final-clause drafting
• Direct treaty registration and depositary functions
• Promote multilateral treaty participation and organize treaty events
• Oversee treaty data processing, publications and capacity development

• Advanced degree in law with public-international-law training
• Ten years of progressively responsible public international law experience
• Managerial experience in a multicultural international organization or government
• English fluency

• Treaty-law specialty
• Innovation, behavioral-science or strategic-foresight experience
• French fluency

• Treaty law
• International law
• Legal advice
• Legal research
• Strategic management
• Team leadership

• Treaty Information and Publication System
• Document management systems

• Initial one-year appointment subject to mandate and funding