UNICEF works in over 190 international locations and territories to avoid wasting youngsters’s lives, defend their rights, and assist them fulfill their potential, from early childhood by way of adolescence.
At UNICEF, we’re dedicated, passionate, and proud of what we do. Promoting the rights of each child is not only a job – it’s a calling.
UNICEF is a spot the place careers are constructed: we provide our workers various alternatives for private {and professional} growth that may assist them develop a satisfying profession whereas delivering on a rewarding mission. We pleasure ourselves on a tradition that helps workers thrive, coupled with a sexy compensation and advantages bundle.
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For each child, dedication
UNICEF’s Legal Team helps the group’s enterprise models all over the world – our purchasers – by delivering strategic authorized options by way of collaboration. We present authorized recommendation that’s risk-informed, well timed, responsive, and pragmatic. We empower purchasers and construct their capability to self-help. We proactively interact with purchasers to anticipate tendencies and challenges and develop systemic options; and we defend UNICEF by figuring out authorized, reputational and different dangers, and serving to to mitigate these dangers. Our attorneys are based mostly in a number of UNICEF places, together with at New York Headquarters, and in a number of different obligation stations, together with Geneva, Copenhagen and Brussels.
How are you able to make a difference?
We search to rent a Legal Affairs Specialist underneath a brief appointment to hitch the Legal Team workforce in Geneva. This short-term appointment is for 364 days.
The Legal Affairs Specialist in Geneva will help on a broad spectrum of authorized issues starting from business contracts to partnerships, disputes, programmes, and institutional issues. The Legal Affairs Specialist will report back to the Senior Legal Affairs Specialist Geneva, who studies to the Chief Legal Counsel.
Members of the UNICEF Legal Team are anticipated to be open-minded and resourceful, responsive, and dynamic, clear and approachable, and clear and authoritative. The total path of the Legal Team is ready by the Chief Legal Counsel in New York.
The Legal Affairs Specialist is predicted to carry out the capabilities of the function autonomously, collaborating intently with different workforce members, all underneath the supervision of the Senior Legal Affairs Specialist
The Legal Affairs Specialist will:
- Provide substantive authorized recommendation within the following areas from an information safety and privateness perspective:
- partnerships with governments and worldwide monetary establishments;
- business and monetary transactions;
- institutional issues, together with privileges and immunities;
- coverage growth and interpretation
- human sources matter (besides tribunal instances)
- dispute decision[MS1]
- Collaborate intently with the UNICEF Data Protection Team within the Division of Data, Analytics and Programmes, in addition to with groups throughout the group, on the headquarters / divisional degree, and on the regional and nation workplace degree, in broadly various growth and humanitarian contexts.
- Leads on representing the Legal Team within the Data Protection Programme Working Group and offering inputs and recommendation as needed. This contains advising on the event and roll-out of divisional and regional implementation plans. This could embrace growth of instruments and steering and collectively offering coaching with the Data Protection Team.
- Leads on advising on and negotiating information safety framework agreements with key companions, in addition to information processing agreements in any respect ranges. This might additionally contain engaged on advising on strucuturing and governance of UNICEF digital merchandise in addition to associated documentation.
- Leads on advising on information breaches and remedial actions, in addition to different info safety incidents as wanted.
- Advise on the authorized interpretation of choices, laws, guidelines, procedures, and different parts of the UNICEF regulatory framework, together with however not restricted to UNICEF’s Policy on Personal Data Protection & Privacy.
- Develop and supply coaching and capability constructing to groups throughout the group; proactively share data with different workforce members.
- Participate actively in tasks managed by the Office all through their whole lifecycle, together with design & planning, stakeholder engagement, monitoring & analysis.
- Take on different duties and duties as required.
The Legal Affairs Specialist will probably be anticipated to:
- Be alive to the larger image. Connect dots, establish tendencies, develop options. This entails: taking possession and having sense of accountability over your portfolio as a complete, consciously answering the necessity for creativity and resourcefulness in all conditions (i.e. present initiative, be proactive, create and use networks, assume exterior the field).
- Take management in motion and be responsive with shopper, whereas holding your supervisor posted. This entails speaking with the shopper usually, sustaining excessive ranges of responsiveness to the shopper, holding your supervisor usually knowledgeable and searching for their enter and steering appropriately, managing the expectations of the shopper and realizing when to escalate.
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Take cost – be accountable and be accountable. This entails:
- taking a risk-based method, prioritizing and, the place issues warrant your funding, taking a forward-looking strategic method – demonstrating coherence, rigor and thought over your issues;
- being pro-active in stakeholder administration, and following up on excellent issues and queries;
- being resourceful, for instance, use networks to unlock issues.
- Exercise good judgement on rising challenges, particularly the place there’s a must escalate in order to keep away from or overcome an deadlock and contain your supervisor in a well timed method.
To qualify as an advocate for each child you should have…
Minimum necessities:
- Education: A minimal of a post-graduate college legislation diploma (for instance. LL. B post-graduate; LL.M.; J.D.) in a related subject of legislation (e.g. worldwide legislation, business legislation) is required; or, on the discretion of the Chief Legal Counsel, a first-level college diploma together with a further two years of qualifying work expertise could also be accepted in lieu of a sophisticated college diploma.
- Work Experience: A minimal of eight (8) years’ of progressively accountable expertise within the follow of legislation in a related subject is required (e.g. worldwide legislation; business legislation). Demonstrated expertise/experience in private information safety and privateness issues is required. Demonstrated expertise in advising on digital merchandise and options is extremely fascinating. Experience in a legislation agency, in non-public follow or as in-house counsel, or within the Legal Team of a world group is extremely fascinating.
- Skills:
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- A constructive and client-oriented method to decision of issues is required.
- Excellent analysis, authorized writing and drafting abilities are required.
- Excellent verbal communication and negotiation abilities, glorious interpersonal abilities with workers in any respect ranges, and the flexibility to work with utmost discretion in handing delicate and confidential issues are required.
- Knowledge of worldwide authorized procedures and devices is fascinating.
- Language Requirements:
- Fluency in English is required. Proficiency in one other language, significantly one of the opposite official languages of the United Nations (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, Spanish) is extremely fascinating.
Desirables:
- Developing nation work expertise and/or familiarity with emergency.
For each Child, you show…
UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin the whole lot we do and the way we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Charter: UNICEF Values
The UNICEF competencies required for this submit are…
(1) Builds and maintains partnerships
(2) Demonstrates self-awareness and moral consciousness
(3) Drive to attain outcomes for influence
(4) Innovates and embraces change
(5) Manages ambiguity and complexity
(6) Thinks and acts strategically
(7) Works collaboratively with others
Familiarize your self with our competency framework and its completely different ranges.
UNICEF is dedicated to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, irrespective of gender, nationality, spiritual or ethnic background, and individuals with disabilities, to apply to turn into a part of the group. To create a extra inclusive office, UNICEF presents paid parental go away, breastfeeding breaks, and affordable lodging for individuals with disabilities. Click here to study extra about versatile work preparations, well-being, and advantages.
According to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD), individuals with disabilities embrace those that have long-term bodily, psychological, mental, or sensory impairments which, in interplay with varied boundaries, could hinder their full and efficient participation in society on an equal foundation with others. In its Disability Inclusion Policy and Strategy 2022-2030, UNICEF has dedicated to extend the quantity of workers with disabilities by 2030. At UNICEF, we offer reasonable accommodation for work-related help necessities of candidates and workers with disabilities. Also, UNICEF has launched a Global Accessibility Helpdesk to strengthen bodily and digital accessibility. If you’re an applicant with a incapacity who wants digital accessibility help in finishing the net application, please submit your request by way of the accessibility electronic mail button on the UNICEF Careers webpage Accessibility | UNICEF.
UNICEF doesn’t rent candidates who’re married to youngsters (individuals underneath 18). UNICEF has a zero-tolerance coverage on conduct that’s incompatible with the goals and aims of the United Nations and UNICEF, together with sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination based mostly on gender, nationality, age, race, sexual orientation, spiritual or ethnic background or disabilities. UNICEF is dedicated to advertise the safety and safeguarding of all youngsters. All chosen candidates will, subsequently, endure rigorous reference and background checks, and will probably be anticipated to stick to those requirements and ideas. Background checks will embrace the verification of tutorial credential(s) and employment historical past. Selected candidates could also be required to supply extra info to conduct a background check, and chosen candidates with disabilities could also be requested to submit supporting documentation in relation to their incapacity confidentially.
UNICEF appointments are topic to medical clearance. Issuance of a visa by the host nation of the obligation station is required for IP positions and will probably be facilitated by UNICEF. Appointments might also be topic to inoculation (vaccination) necessities, together with in opposition to SARS-CoV-2 (Covid). Should you be chosen for a place with UNICEF, you both should be inoculated as required or obtain a medical exemption from the related division of the UN. Otherwise, the choice will probably be canceled.
Remarks:
As per Article 101, paragraph 3, of the Charter of the United Nations, the paramount consideration within the employment of the workers is the need of securing the best requirements of effectivity, competence, and integrity.
UNICEF’s energetic dedication to variety and inclusion is essential to ship the most effective outcomes for youngsters. For this place, eligible and appropriate candidates with various backgrounds are inspired to apply.
Government workers who’re thought of for employment with UNICEF are usually required to resign from their authorities positions earlier than taking over an project with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the appropriate to withdraw a proposal of appointment, with out compensation, if a visa or medical clearance will not be obtained, or needed inoculation necessities usually are not met, inside an inexpensive interval for any cause.
UNICEF doesn’t cost a processing charge at any stage of its recruitment, choice, and hiring processes (i.e., application stage, interview stage, validation stage, or appointment and coaching). UNICEF won’t ask for candidates’ checking account info.
All UNICEF positions are marketed, and solely shortlisted candidates will probably be contacted and advance to the following stage of the choice course of. An inner candidate performing on the degree of the submit within the related useful space, or an inner/exterior candidate within the corresponding Talent Group, could also be chosen, if appropriate for the submit, with out evaluation of different candidates.
Additional details about working for UNICEF might be discovered here.
Legal Affairs Specialist o/p GVA, P-4, Office of Executive Director, Geneva, PAT 131519, Temporary Appointment
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