UNICEF works in over 190 nations and territories to avoid wasting kids’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 isn’t just a job – it’s a calling.
UNICEF is a spot the place careers are constructed: we provide our employees 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 employees thrive, coupled with a lovely compensation and advantages bundle.
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For each child, dedication
UNICEF’s Legal Team helps the group’s enterprise items world wide – our shoppers – by delivering strategic authorized options by way of collaboration. We present authorized recommendation that’s risk-informed, well timed, responsive, and pragmatic. We empower shoppers and construct their capability to self-help. We proactively have interaction with to anticipate tendencies and challenges and develops systemic options, and we shield 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 responsibility 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 affix the Legal Team in New York Headquarters. This short-term appointment is for 364 days.
Under the general steering of the Chief of Section in New York (Senior Legal Affairs Specialist) and the direct supervision of the Legal Affairs Specialist in New York, the Legal Affairs Specialist will assist on a broad spectrum of authorized issues starting from industrial contracts to partnerships, disputes, programmes, and institutional issues.
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 route of the Legal Team is about by the Chief Legal Counsel in New York.
The Legal Affairs Specialist will assist extra senior members of the Office in:
- Providing substantive authorized recommendation within the following areas:
- institutional issues, together with privileges and immunities;
- organizational governance, together with the Regulatory Framework and Delegation fo Authority
- coverage growth and interpretation, specifically for human sources associated insurance policies and procedures
- different authorized points in reference to issues dealt with by the Division of People and Culture, together with relationships and agreements with exterior companions
- dispute decision
- Collaborating carefully with groups throughout the group, on the headquarters / divisional degree, and on the regional and nation workplace degree, in extensively various growth and humanitarian contexts.
- Supporting the coordination of initiatives managed by the Office all through their complete lifecycle, together with design & planning, stakeholder engagement, monitoring & analysis.
- Conducting different duties as directed.
The Legal Affairs Specialist can be anticipated to:
- Take possession of issues; proactively highlighting potential points and current potential options to extra senior members of the Office. This includes 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, suppose exterior the field).
- Support extra senior members of the Office in taking management in motion and being responsive with shoppers. This includes speaking with the shopper recurrently, sustaining excessive ranges of responsiveness to the shopper, holding your supervisor recurrently knowledgeable and looking for their enter and steering appropriately, managing the expectations of the shopper and figuring out when to escalate.
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Take cost – be accountable and be accountable, proactively looking for assist of extra senior members of the Office when wanted. This includes:
- 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.
If you want to know extra about this place, please overview the entire Job Description right here:
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 area of legislation (e.g. worldwide legislation, industrial legislation) is required; or, on the discretion of the Chief Legal Counsel, a first-level college diploma together with an extra two years of qualifying work expertise could also be accepted in lieu of a sophisticated college diploma.
- Work Experience: A minimal of 5 (5) years’ of progressively accountable expertise within the follow of legislation in a related area is required (e.g. worldwide legislation; industrial legislation). Experience with coverage growth and interpretation in a global group is required. Experience in a legislation agency, in non-public follow or as in-house counsel, or within the authorized workplace of a global group is extremely fascinating
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Skills:
- 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, wonderful interpersonal abilities with employees in any respect ranges, and the power 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, notably 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 exhibit…
UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin all the things we do and the way we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Charter: UNICEF Values
The UNICEF competencies required for this publish are…
(1) Builds and maintains partnerships
(2) Demonstrates self-awareness and moral consciousness
(3) Drive to realize 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 totally different ranges.
UNICEF is dedicated to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, irrespective of gender, nationality, non secular or ethnic background, and individuals with disabilities, to apply to develop into a part of the group. To create a extra inclusive office, UNICEF provides paid parental depart, breastfeeding breaks, and affordable lodging for individuals with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages the use of versatile working preparations. Click here to be taught 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 embody those that have long-term bodily, psychological, mental, or sensory impairments which, in interplay with numerous obstacles, might 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 assist necessities of candidates and workers with disabilities. Also, UNICEF has launched a Global Accessibility Helpdesk to strengthen bodily and digital accessibility. If you might be an applicant with a incapacity who wants digital accessibility assist 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 kids (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, non secular or ethnic background or disabilities. UNICEF is dedicated to advertise the safety and safeguarding of all kids. All chosen candidates will, subsequently, endure rigorous reference and background checks, and can be anticipated to stick to those requirements and ideas. Background checks will embody the verification of tutorial credential(s) and employment historical past. Selected candidates could also be required to offer extra data 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 responsibility station is required for IP positions and can be facilitated by UNICEF. Appointments can also be topic to inoculation (vaccination) necessities, together with towards SARS-CoV-2 (Covid). Should you be chosen for a place with UNICEF, you both have to be inoculated as required or obtain a medical exemption from the related division of the UN. Otherwise, the choice can be canceled.
Remarks:
As per Article 101, paragraph 3, of the Charter of the United Nations, the paramount consideration within the employment of the employees 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 kids.
Government workers who’re thought of for employment with UNICEF are usually required to resign from their authorities positions earlier than taking on an task with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the correct to withdraw a proposal of appointment, with out compensation, if a visa or medical clearance is just not obtained, or vital inoculation necessities usually are not met, inside an inexpensive interval for any purpose.
UNICEF doesn’t cost a processing price at any stage of its recruitment, choice, and hiring processes (i.e., application stage, interview stage, validation stage, or appointment and coaching). UNICEF is not going to ask for candidates’ checking account data.
[CO/ HQ specific: visa residence requirements: i.e.: UNICEF shall not facilitate the issuance of a visa and working authorization for candidates under consideration for positions at the national officer and general service category.]
All UNICEF positions are marketed, and solely shortlisted candidates can be contacted and advance to the following stage of the choice course of. An inside candidate performing on the degree of the publish within the related useful space, or an inside/exterior candidate within the corresponding Talent Group, could also be chosen, if appropriate for the publish, with out evaluation of different candidates.
Additional details about working for UNICEF could be discovered here.
Legal Affairs Specialist, P-3, Office of Executive Director, NYHQ, PAT 131518, Temp Appointment
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