Junior Legal Consultant at United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

• Support the development, refinement, and organization of legal templates, standard operating procedures, and internal guidance materials.
• Maintain and update legal databases, case management systems and document repositories, ensuring proper version control and tagging.
• Support the development of knowledge management initiatives and products, including legal resources for internal and external use
• Provide administrative support, including organizing legal meetings and workshops, assist with legal training, preparing agendas, and drafting meeting minutes.
• Provide administrative support including preparing meeting summaries, assisting with legal correspondence, and coordinating follow-up actions from legal meetings.
• Conduct legal and policy research relevant to UNEP's mandate, including administrative law, and institutional legal frameworks and present findings in short memos
• Assist Legal Officers in reviewing agreements and legal documents, preparing summaries, and tracking key legal issues.
• Draft background notes, legal memos, and templates under the guidance of Legal Officers.

• First level university degree in law. A practicing certificate is desirable.
• Minimum of 1-3 years of relevant experience in legal research, practice, or advisory services is required.
• Experience in database management and drafting legal advice is required Experience in an international context is desirable

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