Junior Legal Consultant

To strengthen the operational capacity and effectiveness of the Legal Unit by providing quality legal and administrative support, contributing to timely legal reviews, knowledge management initiatives, and improved agreement tracking, document management systems. and functional backup to administrative coordination during critical periods.

Nairobi

5 months

United Nations Environment Programme is the leading global environmental authority that sets the global environmental agenda, promotes the coherent implementation of the environmental dimension of sustainable development within the United Nations system and serves as an authoritative advocate for the global environment. UNEP's Corporate Services Division (CSD) is the guardian of UNEP's corporate interest, mitigating its exposure to risk and supporting the organization with management tools, plans and related capacity building. This consultancy is located in the Legal Unit of the Corporate Services Division. The Consultant will work under the direct supervision of the Head of the Legal Unit to provide legal research, document review, knowledge management, and legal coordination support to the Legal Officers. The Consultant will also serve as a backup to the Legal Assistant during periods of high demand or absence and will be expected to support the maintenance of filing and tracking systems, prepare meeting records, and support administrative coordination related to legal operations. Duties and Responsibilities: 1. Support the development, refinement, and organization of legal templates, standard operating procedures, and internal guidance materials. 2. Maintain and update legal databases, case management systems and document repositories, ensuring proper version control and tagging. 3. Support the development of knowledge management initiatives and products, including legal resources for internal and external use 4. Provide administrative support, including organizing legal meetings and workshops, assist with legal training, preparing agendas, and drafting meeting minutes. 5. Provide administrative support including preparing meeting summaries, assisting with legal correspondence, and coordinating follow-up actions from legal meetings. 6. Conduct legal and policy research relevant to UNEP’s mandate, including administrative law, and institutional legal frameworks and present findings in short memos 7. Assist Legal Officers in reviewing agreements and legal documents, preparing summaries, and tracking key legal issues. 8. Draft background notes, legal memos, and templates under the guidance of Legal Officers. 9. Act as a backup to the Legal Assistant, including during periods of absence or increased workload, by supporting legal filing, docketing and assignment of requests for legal support, agreement tracking, scheduling, and meeting preparation. 10. Assist in onboarding and knowledge-sharing for new staff including interns as needed. 11. Perform any other tasks requested by the Head of the Legal Unit to support efficient legal service delivery.

First level university degree in law. A practicing certificate is desirable. Minimum 2 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.

Fluency in English (oral and written) is required. Knowledge of another UN official language is an advantage. (NOTE: 'Fluency'' equals a rating of ''fluent'' in all four areas (read, write, speak, understand) and ''Knowledge of'' equals a rating of ''confident'' in two of the four areas.)

Not available.

THE UNITED NATIONS DOES NOT CHARGE A FEE AT ANY STAGE OF THE RECRUITMENT PROCESS (APPLICATION, INTERVIEW MEETING, PROCESSING, OR TRAINING). THE UNITED NATIONS DOES NOT CONCERN ITSELF WITH INFORMATION ON APPLICANTS’ BANK ACCOUNTS.