Result of Service

The Consultant will provide the following: • Legal expertise to the presentation of legislation and other content on the UNEP-LEAP and related websites, including the thematic toolkits on core areas of environmental law, and ensure alignment with processes to develop policy trackers in these areas. • Legal guidance of the further development and updating of the InforMEA Goals section and the negotiator’s toolkit. • Legal review and inputs to the correct application and use of semantic indexing tools and software to auto-tag, categorize and further enhance Collective Intelligence content.

Work Location

Home Based

Expected duration

6 months

Duties and Responsibilities

Background: The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) 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. The UNEP Law Division is the lead Division charged with carrying out the functions of UNEP in the field of environmental law, governance, and related policy issues, including those related to Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs). To fulfil its mandate, the work of the Law Division focuses on: leading the international community in the progressive developmental of environmental law; supporting States in the development and implementation of legal, institutional and policy measures that address emerging and important environmental challenges; facilitating cooperation and coordination among MEAs and between UNEP and those agreements; working with MEA Secretariats to support Parties to the respective MEAs in implementing their treaty obligations; and facilitating policy dialogue among States on issues relating to international environmental law and governance. The Collective Intelligence for Environmental Governance Project of the Law Division enhances the knowledge of key stakeholders of international environmental law and environmental treaties. The Law Division requires a Legal Expert to support the development of knowledge tools for the Environmental Governance Sub-programme through the provision of legal and semantic indexing expertise, including the development of legal toolkits on the UNEP-LEAP Montevideo V Programme website covering Air Pollution, Plastic Pollution and Climate Change, and related tools such as the UNEP Policy Tracker currently being developed. Duties and Responsibilities: Under the supervision of the Head of the Collective Intelligence Unit, the Knowledge Management and Collective Intelligence Expert will: I. Provide Legal expertise to the development of knowledge tools of the Environmental Governance Sub-programme including the further development/refinement of legal toolkits and other content on the UNEP-LEAP Montevideo V Programme website, and facilitate the further development and expansion to stakeholders of the Negotiator’s Toolkit and Global Goals sections of the InforMEA platform. II. Provide Legal and Taxonomic expertise to support Semantic indexing and retrieval on InforMEA, LEAP and other related platforms, and for the conversion, tagging and presentation of Akomo Ntoso/machine-readable content.

Qualifications/special skills

An advanced university degree (master’s degree, or equivalent) in international environmental law is required. A first-level university degree in Law combined with two years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree. A minimum of 10 years of progressive working experience in Law, including Legal analysis, research and writing, is required. Experience at the international level, including with the United Nations system organizations is desirable. Excellent Taxonomy development and legal curation experience is required. This includes direct working experience in the development of specialist online tools and guides for policy makers and other key environmental law stakeholders, plus the effective presentation and tagging/indexing of online legislation and other datasets.

Languages

English and French are the working languages of the United Nations Secretariat. For the position advertised, fluency in oral and written English is required.

Additional Information

Not available.

No Fee

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.