Org. Setting and Reporting

This place is situated within the Workplace of the Authorized Counsel, Workplace of Authorized Affairs. The incumbent reviews to the Assistant-Secretary-Normal, Head of the Workplace of the Authorized Counsel. The general goals of this programme are to offer a unified central authorized service for the Secretariat and the principal and different organs of the United Nations, to contribute to the progressive growth and codification of worldwide public and commerce regulation, to advertise the strengthening and growth in addition to the efficient implementation of the worldwide authorized order for the seas and oceans, to register and publish treaties, and to carry out the depositary capabilities of the Secretary-Normal.

Obligations

Beneath the path of the Assistant-Secretary-Normal, the Principal Authorized Officer: • Leads, supervises and carries out the supply of authorized recommendation for and help employees beneath his/her accountability. Co-ordinates and oversees the preparation of authorized recommendation, and opinions on advanced authorized questions, together with questions involving public worldwide regulation, and the regulation and follow of the Group; counsels, acts for and, in main areas of a fancy or novel nature, represents the Group, together with its subsidiary organs and individually administered funds and programmes and Places of work in negotiations and earlier than arbitral and administrative tribunals; offers with a variety of multidisciplinary and complicated authorized issues that require an evaluation of present regulation and insurance policies; gives help and recommendation in reference to the Group’s accountability measures; formulates and negotiates options and options to issues for which no precedents exist and which contain main questions of worldwide regulation. • Co-ordinates and oversees the preparation of reviews for presentation to intergovernmental our bodies, such because the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Price range Questions, the Normal Meeting and different policy-making organs, as acceptable. • Reviews to intergovernmental our bodies on funds/programme efficiency or on programmatic/ substantive points, as acceptable, significantly these introduced in biannual and/or annual reviews. • Ensures that the authorized recommendation and help produced by the Workplace preserve high-quality requirements, that such service and recommendation is obvious, goal and based mostly on complete info and authorized evaluation. Ensures that each one authorized providers and recommendation produced by the attorneys and help employees beneath his/her supervision meet required requirements earlier than completion to make sure that they adjust to the relevant authorized framework of the United Nations. • Assists the Assistant-Secretary-Normal in getting ready the work programme of the Division, figuring out priorities, and allocating assets for the completion of outputs and their well timed supply. • Undertakes or oversees the programmatic or administrative duties needed for the functioning of the Workplace, together with preparation of budgets, reporting on funds and programme efficiency, analysis of employees efficiency (PAS), interviews of candidates for job openings, analysis of candidates and preparation of inputs for results-based budgeting. • Recruits employees, taking due account of geographical and gender stability. • Manages, guides, develops and trains employees beneath his/her supervision. • Fosters teamwork and communication amongst employees within the Division and throughout the Group, together with its individually administered Funds, Programmes and Places of work. • Leads and supervises the group of conferences or different seminars, and so forth., on substantive points being addressed by the Division. Manages the substantive preparation and group of such conferences or seminars. • Participates in worldwide, regional or nationwide conferences and gives authorized help or experience on situation regarding the actions of the Group, or holds programmatic/substantive and organizational discussions with representatives of different establishments, and represents the Division at worldwide, regional or nationwide conferences, as required.

Competencies

• Professionalism: In-depth data of public worldwide regulation and of the United Nations Constitution and the regulation and follow of the United Nations together with the regulation and authorized regimes of its subsidiary organs. Complete data of UN insurance policies, procedures and operations. Potential to conduct complete, impartial authorized analysis. Demonstrates skilled competence and mastery of material; is conscientious and environment friendly in assembly commitments, observing deadlines and attaining outcomes; is motivated by skilled quite than private issues; exhibits persistence when confronted with tough issues or challenges; and stays calm in tense conditions. • Communication: Speaks and writes clearly and successfully; listens to others, appropriately interprets messages from others and responds appropriately; asks inquiries to make clear, and reveals curiosity in having two-way communication; tailors language, tone, type and format to match viewers; demonstrates openness in sharing info and retaining folks knowledgeable. Potential to draft shortly, to arrange written reviews which can be clear, concise and significant and to evaluation the work of others. Potential to speak advanced ideas orally, to defend and clarify tough points with respect to key choices and positions to employees, senior officers and members of intergovernmental our bodies. • Shopper Orientation: Considers all these to whom providers are supplied to be “shoppers” and seeks to see issues from shoppers’ perspective; establishes and maintains productive partnerships with shoppers by gaining their belief and respect; identifies shoppers’ wants and matches them to acceptable options; screens ongoing developments inside and out of doors the shoppers’ atmosphere to maintain knowledgeable and anticipate issues; retains shoppers knowledgeable of progress or setbacks in tasks; meets timeline for supply of services or products to shopper. • Management: Serves as a task mannequin that different folks need to observe: empowers others to translate imaginative and prescient into outcomes; is proactive in growing methods to perform goals; establishes and maintains relationships with a broad vary of individuals to know wants and acquire help; anticipates and resolves conflicts by pursuing mutually agreeable options; drives for change and enhancements; doesn’t settle for the established order; exhibits the braveness to take unpopular stands. Offers management and takes accountability for incorporating gender views and guaranteeing the equal participation of men and women in all areas of labor; demonstrates data of methods and dedication to the purpose of gender stability in staffing. • Judgment/Choice-making: Identifies the important thing points in a fancy state of affairs, and involves the center of the issue shortly; gathers related info earlier than making a choice; considers constructive and unfavorable impacts of selections prior to creating them; takes choices with a watch to the influence on others and on the Group; proposes a plan of action or makes a suggestion based mostly on all out there info; checks assumptions towards info; determines that the actions proposed will fulfill the expressed and underlying wants for the choice; makes powerful choices when needed.

Training

Superior college diploma (Grasp’s diploma or equal diploma) in worldwide regulation or the regulation of worldwide organizations is required. A primary stage college diploma in regulation and an extra two years of qualifying expertise could also be accepted in lieu of a complicated diploma.

Job – Particular Qualification

Not out there.

Work Expertise

At the least 15 years of progressively accountable skilled expertise in public worldwide regulation is required. Expertise in offering authorized providers to a world group is required. Expertise supervising an workplace, unit or part is fascinating. Expertise overseeing programmatic/administrative duties essential to the functioning of a piece unit, together with the preparation of budgetary inputs, reviews on funds/programme efficiency, evaluations of employees efficiency and enter for results-based budgeting is fascinating. Skilled authorized expertise advising on points regarding worldwide judicial and non-judicial accountability mechanisms is fascinating.

Languages

English and French are the working languages of the United Nations Secretariat. For this put up, fluency in English is required. Fluency in French is fascinating. Information of one other United Nations language is a bonus.

Evaluation

Analysis of certified candidates might embrace an evaluation train which can be adopted by competency-based interview.

Particular Discover

• This place is quickly out there till 30 September 2024. If the chosen candidate is a employees member from the United Nations Secretariat, the choice shall be administered as a short lived project. • Whereas this momentary project might present the profitable applicant with a possibility to realize new work expertise, the choice for this place is for a restricted interval and has no bearing on the longer term incumbency of the put up. • Topic to the funding supply of the place, the eligibility for this momentary job opening could also be restricted to candidates based mostly on the responsibility station. • This momentary job opening could also be restricted to “inner candidates,” who’ve been recruited via a aggressive examination administered in line with employees rule 4.16 or employees choice course of together with the evaluation of a central evaluation physique established in line with employees rule 4.15. • Employees members of the United Nations frequent system organizations who will attain the obligatory age of separation or retirement throughout the length of the present momentary want interval aren’t eligible to use.Submitting an software or choice for the present momentary job opening doesn’t delay or enhance the obligatory age of separation. • Retirees above the obligatory age of separation who want to be thought of for the present momentary job opening should point out the explanation for his or her final separation as “retirement.” Such retirees shall not be employed by the Group, until (a) the operational necessities of the Group can’t be met by employees members who’re certified and out there to carry out the required capabilities; and (b) the proposed employment wouldn’t adversely have an effect on the profession growth or redeployment alternatives of different employees members and represents each an economical and operationally sound resolution to satisfy the wants of the service.

United Nations Concerns

In line with article 101, paragraph 3, of the Constitution of the United Nations, the paramount consideration within the employment of the employees is the need of securing the very best requirements of effectivity, competence, and integrity. Candidates won’t be thought of for employment with the United Nations if they’ve dedicated violations of worldwide human rights regulation, violations of worldwide humanitarian regulation, sexual exploitation, sexual abuse, or sexual harassment, or if there are affordable grounds to imagine that they’ve been concerned within the fee of any of those acts. The time period “sexual exploitation” means any precise or tried abuse of a place of vulnerability, differential energy, or belief, for sexual functions, together with, however not restricted to, profiting monetarily, socially or politically from the sexual exploitation of one other. The time period “sexual abuse” means the precise or threatened bodily intrusion of a sexual nature, whether or not by pressure or beneath unequal or coercive situations. The time period “sexual harassment” means any unwelcome conduct of a sexual nature that may moderately be anticipated or be perceived to trigger offence or humiliation, when such conduct interferes with work, is made a situation of employment or creates an intimidating, hostile or offensive work atmosphere, and when the gravity of the conduct warrants the termination of the perpetrator’s working relationship. Candidates who’ve dedicated crimes apart from minor site visitors offences might not be thought of for employment. Due regard shall be paid to the significance of recruiting the employees on as large a geographical foundation as attainable. The United Nations locations no restrictions on the eligibility of women and men to take part in any capability and beneath situations of equality in its principal and subsidiary organs. The United Nations Secretariat is a non-smoking atmosphere. Cheap lodging could also be supplied to candidates with disabilities upon request, to help their participation within the recruitment course of. By accepting a letter of appointment, employees members are topic to the authority of the Secretary-Normal, who might assign them to any of the actions or places of work of the United Nations in accordance with employees regulation 1.2 (c). Additional, employees members within the Skilled and better class as much as and together with the D-2 stage and the Area Service class are usually required to maneuver periodically to discharge capabilities in numerous responsibility stations beneath situations established in ST/AI/2023/3 on Mobility, as could also be amended or revised. This situation of service applies to all place particular job openings and doesn’t apply to momentary positions. Candidates are urged to fastidiously observe all directions out there within the on-line recruitment platform, inspira, and to check with the Applicant Information by clicking on “Manuals” within the “Assist” tile of the inspira account-holder homepage. The analysis of candidates shall be performed on the premise of the knowledge submitted within the software in line with the analysis standards of the job opening and the relevant inner legislations of the United Nations together with the Constitution of the United Nations, resolutions of the Normal Meeting, the Employees Rules and Guidelines, administrative issuances and tips. Candidates should present full and correct info pertaining to their private profile and {qualifications} in line with the directions supplied in inspira to be thought of for the present job opening. No modification, addition, deletion, revision or modification shall be made to purposes which were submitted. Candidates beneath critical consideration for choice shall be topic to reference checks to confirm the knowledge supplied within the software. Job openings marketed on the Careers Portal shall be eliminated at 11:59 p.m. (New York time) on the deadline date.

No Payment

THE UNITED NATIONS DOES NOT CHARGE A FEE AT ANY STAGE OF THE RECRUITMENT PROCESS (APPLICATION, INTERVIEW MEETING, PROCESSING, OR TRAINING). THE UNITED NATIONS DOES NOT CONCERN ITSELF WITH INFORMATION ON APPLICANTS’ BANK ACCOUNTS.