Legal Officer

Handles complex administrative-law and disciplinary matters involving critical incidents, standards of conduct and sexual exploitation and abuse across the UN Secretariat. The role advises managers, leads litigation and investigations, drafts legal instruments and represents the Organization before tribunals and other bodies.

Department: Administrative Law Division, Critical Incident Response Section

• Lead complex critical-incident, conduct and sexual-exploitation-and-abuse legal matters
• Advise on international, national, criminal, administrative and employment-law questions
• Conduct legal research and draft opinions, briefs, motions, reports, indictments and instruments
• Prepare and lead litigation, investigations, prosecutions and tribunal proceedings
• Negotiate settlements, claims and legal terms and advise on staff rules and administrative decisions
• Represent the Organization before tribunals, conferences, committees and expert bodies
• Coordinate legal teams and mentor or supervise junior officers on complex cases

• Advanced university degree in law, or a first-level law degree with two additional years of qualifying experience
• At least seven years of experience in administrative or employment law
• At least two years of national or international litigation experience, including appearing before a court, tribunal or equivalent body and leading witness evidence
• English at UN Level II

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