National HLP Legal Officer

Provides specialist legal leadership for UN-Habitat Syria on housing, land and property rights, shaping policy and project design, advising state and inter-agency forums, producing legal analysis and training stakeholders to strengthen tenure security and rights-based urban recovery.

Department: UN-Habitat Syria HLP Unit

• Advise on housing, land and property strategy, workplans and legal priorities
• Integrate housing, land and property law into project design and quality review
• Provide legal leadership to housing and transitional justice working groups
• Engage state cadastral, legislative and municipal counterparts on legal reform
• Analyse legislative frameworks and emerging housing, land and property challenges
• Produce policy briefs, advocacy papers, research and analytical reports
• Deliver legal training and workshops to government, civil society and United Nations stakeholders
• Support project coordination, donor engagement, concept notes, proposals and reports

• Master's degree in Law, Social Sciences, Political Sciences with a housing, land and property background or another relevant field, or a bachelor's degree with two additional years of qualifying experience
• Five years of legal-framework and housing, land and property rights experience in humanitarian, recovery or development contexts
• Experience with United Nations agencies or international non-governmental organisations working on housing, land and property rights
• Experience leading capacity building, awareness raising, advocacy, legal support and legal research programmes
• Fluency in English and Arabic
• Syrian nationality

• Contract is for five months with possible extension subject to funding
• UNOPS contracts the role for UN-Habitat
• Appointment is subject to background checks