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Legal Consultant

OED/Legal, New York /Remote no journey, 4 months

UNICEF works in over 190 nations and territories to save lots of kids’s lives, defend their rights, and assist them fulfill their potential, from early childhood by means of adolescence.

At UNICEF, we’re dedicated, passionate, and pleased with what we do for so long as we’re wanted. Promoting the rights of each little one 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 skilled and private improvement that can assist them reinforce a way of goal whereas serving kids and communities the world over. We welcome everybody who desires to belong and develop in a various and passionate tradition, coupled with a lovely compensation and advantages package deal.

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

For each little one, the precise to advocacy

How are you able to make a distinction?

UNICEF Legal maintains the institutional file of UNICEF host nation agreements, fundamental cooperation agreements, exchanges of letters and associated treaty devices governing its privileges, immunities and operational presence worldwide. As a part of this file, a 2025 Legal Office overview recognized (a) devices requiring registration with the United Nations Treaty Section (UNTS), and (b) devices for which UNICEF presently holds solely a UNTS Limited Publication and will search full model(s) for UNICEF’s data.

Article 102 of the UN Charter requires treaties and worldwide agreements to be registered with UNTS. Registration ensures transparency, preserves the official treaty file, and permits the settlement to be invoked earlier than UN organs, together with the International Court of Justice.

The consultancy will help UNICEF in regularizing its treaty data by sourcing lacking full texts, figuring out if entry-into-force necessities have been glad and initiating UNTS registration the place doable.

If you wish to know extra about this consultancy, please overview the entire Terms of Reference right here:  ToRTMC0005217.pdf

To qualify as an advocate for each little one you’ll have…

Minimum necessities:

• Education: OTHER: The consultancy requires expertise in authorized data administration, institutional archives, worldwide agreements, governance documentation, data administration, analysis, or a associated discipline involving the group, overview and retrieval of official data. Experience working with the United Nations system, worldwide organizations, authorities establishments or comparable multilateral environments is fascinating.
• Work Experience: Minimum three years of expertise in treaty apply, treaty registration, and/or authorized data administration.

• Skills: Strong doc overview, analysis and analytical expertise.

• Experience sustaining trackers, databases or records-management methods.
• Ability to evaluate documentary proof and establish lacking data.
• Ability to coordinate with a number of stakeholders and establishments throughout totally different jurisdictions and time zones.
• Strong organizational expertise and a spotlight to element.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and doc administration instruments

• Language Requirements: Fluency in English required. Knowledge of French and Spanish fascinating.
• Desirables:

• Experience with the United Nations system, worldwide organizations, authorities treaty workplaces, archives, registries or institutional record-keeping features.
• Familiarity with worldwide agreements, treaty apply, treaty registration or associated institutional processes.
• Experience working with historic authorized data, official archives or treaty collections. .

For each Child, you display…

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

UNICEF promotes and advocates for the safety of the rights of each little one, in all places, in the whole lot it does and is remitted to help the belief of the rights of each little one, together with these most deprived, and our world workforce should mirror the range of these kids. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, regardless of their race/ethnicity, incapacity, gender identification, sexual orientation, faith, nationality, socio-economic background, minority, or every other standing.

UNICEF encourages functions from all certified candidates, no matter gender, nationality, spiritual or ethnic backgrounds, and from folks with disabilities, together with neurodivergence. We provide cheap lodging for individuals with disabilities. all through the recruitment course of. If you require any lodging, please submit your request by means of the accessibility e mail button on the UNICEF Careers webpage Accessibility | UNICEF. Should you be shortlisted, please get in contact with the recruiter on to share additional particulars, enabling us to make the mandatory preparations upfront.

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 targets 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 kids. All chosen candidates will, subsequently, bear rigorous reference and background checks, and shall be anticipated to stick to those requirements and rules. Background checks will embrace the verification of educational credential(s) and employment historical past. Selected candidates could also be required to supply extra data to conduct a background test, and chosen candidates with disabilities could also be requested to submit supporting documentation in relation to their incapacity confidentially.

Qualified candidates are invited to submit the next paperwork through the net recruitment portal, TMS (Talent Management System):

• An up-to-date TMS profile and curriculum vitae (CV)
• Cover letter
• A separate monetary proposal (solely acceptable within the format of the linked template)  Financial proposal TMC0005217.xlsx