[UN OLA] Chief of Section, Legal Affairs
Ente: UN OLA - Office of Legal Affairs
Scadenza: 2026-10-11
Paese: INTL
Descrizione
Chief of Section, Legal Affairs UN OLA - Office of Legal Affairs Open positions at UN OLA / Open positions at UN New York ( United States of America ) Senior Legal Show advice for this position Application deadline in 1 month : Saturday 10 Oct 2026 at 03:59 UTC Open application form Contract This is a P-5 contract. This kind of contract is known as Professional and Director staff . It is normally internationally recruited only . It's a staff contract. It usually requires 10 years of experience , depending on education. Salary The salary for this job should be between 194,686 USD and 243,986 USD . Salary for a P-5 contract in New York The international rate of 110,869 USD, with an additional 75.6% (post adjustment) at this the location, applies. Please note that depending on the location, a higher post adjustment might still result in a lower purchasing power . 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Setting and Reporting The Office of Legal Affairs is the central legal service of the Organization and provides legal advice to the Secretary-General, Secretariat departments and offices and United Nations organs in the field of public and private law, represents the Secretary-General in legal conferences and in judicial proceedings; performs substantive and secretariat functions for legal organs involved in public international law, the law of the sea and ocean affairs and international trade law; and performs the functions conferred on the Secretary-General in Article 102 of the Charter of the United Nations. The position is located in the Treaty Section of the Office of Legal Affairs (OLA). The Chief of Treaty Section reports directly to the Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs. Responsibilities In the area of concentration and within delegated authority, the Chief of Treaty Section will be responsible for the following duties: - Formulates the work programme of the Section, particularly by determining priorities and identifying implementation modalities, and allocates resources accordingly for the completion and timely delivery of outputs; - Oversees the administration and management of the Section, including supervision of the preparation of budgets, reporting on budget/programme performance, preparation of inputs for results-based budgeting, evaluation of staff performance; - Manages the assignment and completion of tasks within the Section and maintains and evaluates programme performance; - Supervises the conduct of research and analysis on a variety of complex and intricate treaty law and other related international law issues; - Supervises the provision of legal advice and assistance on treaty-law related questions, including the drafting and interpretation of final clauses of multilateral treaties to be deposited with the Secretary-General and the discharge of the functions of the Secretary-General as depositary of more than 550 multilateral treaties; - Promotes the wider participation in the multilateral treaty framework, including through organizing treaty events and other activities; - Supervises the interpretation and application of the regulations adopted by the General Assembly to give effect to Article 102 of the Charter in order to determine the acceptability of registration requests by States and intergovernmental organizations and directs the execution of the registration or filing and recording of treaties/subsequent treaty actions; - Responds to inquiries from Member States, treaty bodies and international organizations, as well as private individuals; - Plans and supervises the activities aimed at the dissemination and wider appreciation of international law, including the dissemination of treaty-related information through the Treaty Information and Publication System; - Ensures that all outputs produced by the Section under his/her supervision meet high-quality standards; - Supervises the processing of treaty-related data and its availability for the desktop and web-publishing shortly after the registration or filing and recording of treaties/subsequent treaty actions, as well as the preparation for publication of the volumes of the United Nations Treaty Series; - Supervises the preparation and publication of other publications; - Supervises the functioning and further development of the Treaty Information and Publication System; - Supervises the organization and conduct of capacity-development activities at Headquarters and at the regional level, including in cooperation with other UN entities; - Participates in international conferences and seminars in the field of law of treaties, m
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