Apply for Legal Affairs Specialist, P-3, Executive Director’s Office (OED), Outposted, Geneva, Switzerland, #110146 Unicef Job Vacancy | Unicef Careers

UNICEF works in over 190 nations 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 pleased with 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 employees numerous alternatives for private {and professional} growth that can assist them develop a satisfying profession whereas delivering on a rewarding mission. We delight ourselves on a tradition that helps employees thrive, coupled with a sexy compensation and advantages package deal.

Visit our website to study extra about what we do at UNICEF.

For each child, dedication

UNICEF’s Legal Team helps the group’s enterprise items 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 to anticipate traits and challenges and develops systemic options, and we defend UNICEF by figuring out authorized, reputational and different dangers, and serving to to mitigate these dangers. Our legal professionals are situated in a number of UNICEF places, together with Geneva the place UNICEF’s Private Sector Fundraising and Partnerships (PFP) Division in addition to its Eastern Europe and Central Asia Regional Office are headquartered.

Our crew in Geneva helps UNICEF’s PFP Division (in addition to different enterprise items globally) on a broad vary of issues associated to UNICEF’s non-public sector fundraising and partnerships perform (in addition to different capabilities) starting from industrial contracts to information and digital, disputes, and institutional issues.

How are you able to make a difference? 

We search to rent a Legal Affairs Specialist underneath a hard and fast time period appointment to affix the Legal Team on a two-year contract, with the potential for extension.

Under the general steering of the Senior Legal Affairs Specialist in Geneva and the direct supervision of Legal Affairs Specialist in Geneva, the Legal Affairs Specialist will present steering and recommendation on non-public sector fundraising issues and personal sector partnerships, information safety, digital merchandise, in addition to institutional and industrial procurement, donor agreements and contracts associated to programme assist and venture implementation to make sure adherence to organizational monetary, procurement, contracting and authorized insurance policies, guidelines and procedures; and to make sure that the group is protected against authorized publicity.

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 general course 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:

• Advising on the authorized dimensions of multinational, construction and implementation of UNICEF collaborations with exterior companions, with a concentrate on partnerships with the non-public sector (foundations, corporates, excessive internet price people) and civil society and by creating draft agreements and time period sheets, figuring out dangers and attainable mitigation methods, creating and supporting on negotiation methods.
• Advising on industrial contract negotiations for the procurement of products and companies, together with however not restricted to, these referring to digital fundraising and digital merchandise.
• Researching and advising in relation to negotiations with host governments in relation to UNICEF’s presence in nation.
• Advising on the decision of disputes, significantly these disputes involving attainable legal responsibility for the Organization (underneath the overall steering of the Chief Legal Counsel and Senior Legal Affairs Specialist).
• Advising on the authorized interpretation of selections, laws, guidelines, insurance policies, procedures, together with however not restricted to UNICEF’s Policy on Personal Data Protection & Privacy.
• Supporting the design and implementation of latest and current crew administration, information sharing {and professional} growth initiatives.
• Supporting the coordination of tasks managed by the Office all through their total lifecycle, together with design & planning, stakeholder engagement, monitoring & analysis.
• Conducting different duties as directed.

The Legal Affairs Specialist shall be anticipated to:

• Take possession of issues; proactively highlighting potential points and current attainable 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, assume outdoors the field). 
• Support extra senior members of the Office in taking management in motion and being responsive with purchasers. This includes speaking with the shopper often, sustaining excessive ranges of responsiveness to the shopper, maintaining your supervisor often knowledgeable and looking for their enter and steering appropriately, managing the expectations of the shopper and figuring out when to escalate.
• 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 strategy, prioritizing and, the place issues warrant your funding, taking a forward-looking strategic strategy – 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 regulation diploma (for instance. LL. B post-graduate; LL.M.; J.D.) in a related discipline of regulation (e.g. worldwide regulation, industrial regulation) or equal is required;
  • A primary-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 5 (5) years’ of progressively accountable expertise within the observe of regulation in a related discipline is required (e.g. worldwide regulation; industrial regulation), with a concentrate on transaction administration and industrial transaction negotiation. 
  • Experience in a regulation agency, in non-public observe or as in-house counsel is very fascinating.
  • Experience in a global group (UN and worldwide monetary establishments, growth banks, regional banks) is fascinating.
• Skills:
  • A constructive and client-oriented strategy 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 employees in any respect ranges, and the power to work with utmost discretion in dealing with delicate and confidential issues are required.
• Language Requirements: 
  • Fluency in spoken and written English is required. Proficiency in Spanish and/or Portuguese is very fascinating.
  • Knowledge of one other official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, or Russian) or an area language.

Desirables:

• Developing nation work expertise and/or familiarity with emergency.

Please deal with your expertise with transaction administration and industrial negotiations in your application letter.

 

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 publish 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, regardless of gender, nationality, non secular or ethnic background, and individuals with disabilities, to apply to change 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 using versatile working preparations. 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 embody 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 variety 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’re an applicant with a incapacity who wants digital accessibility assist in finishing the web 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 targets of the United Nations and UNICEF, together with sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination primarily based 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 youngsters. All chosen candidates will, due to this fact, bear rigorous reference and background checks, and shall be anticipated to stick to those requirements and ideas. Background checks will embody the verification of educational credential(s) and employment historical past. Selected candidates could also be required to offer 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 shall 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 shall 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 lively dedication to range and inclusion is important to ship the most effective outcomes for youngsters. For this place, eligible and appropriate Females/Males from Programme nations 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 fitting to withdraw a suggestion of appointment, with out compensation, if a visa or medical clearance shouldn’t be obtained, or mandatory inoculation necessities will not be met, inside an affordable interval for any purpose. 

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.

Mobility is a situation of worldwide skilled employment with UNICEF and an underlying premise of the worldwide civil service.

All UNICEF positions are marketed, and solely shortlisted candidates shall be contacted and advance to the subsequent stage of the choice course of. An inside candidate performing on the stage of the publish within the related practical 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 may be discovered here.