Legal Assistant (Personal Assistant to the Under-Secretary-General)

Provides high-level personal, administrative and legal-office support to the UN Legal Counsel in New York. The role manages confidential correspondence, calendars, meetings, records, legal reference files and executive workflows while supporting senior office leadership.

Department: Office of Legal Affairs

• Manage the Under-Secretary-General's calendar, meetings, travel and confidential correspondence
• Maintain legal reference files, records, databases and document-retrieval processes
• Support committees, ceremonies, high-level meetings and legal-office logistics
• Draft, edit and finalize correspondence, memoranda and specialized legal documentation
• Guide office support staff and provide administrative support to senior office leadership

• High school diploma or equivalent
• Seven years of relevant experience, reduced to five with a first-level university degree or higher
• English at UN Level II
• Authorization to work in the United States because the post is locally recruited

• Initial appointment is for one year. This General Service position is locally recruited, and applicants outside the duty station are responsible for relocation costs.