Legal Officer, Competition and Consumer Protection (Temporary Job Opening)

The role

The Legal Officer position is located in the Competition and Consumer Policies Branch of the Division on International Trade and Commodities of the United Nations Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in Geneva, Switzerland. The role involves conducting legal research, preparing reports, and providing technical assistance on competition and consumer protection laws and policies.

What you'll do

• Conducts extensive legal research and analysis and prepares studies, comparative studies, briefs, reports and correspondence on competition and/or consumer protection, including its relationship with trade and development.
• Undertakes basic or extensive review of legal documents, instruments, or other material; identifies important issues, similarities, and inconsistencies, etc.
• Prepares or assists in the preparation of drafts of background papers, studies, reports, legislative texts and commentaries on those texts, teaching materials in the field of international trade law and competition and/or consumer protection law for Government officials, enterprises, consumer organizations and academics.
• Prepares or assists in the preparation of agreements and contracts with governments, NGOs and other public and private entities, as well as in the negotiation and settlement of claims and disputes and in handling private international law and international trade, competition and/or consumer protection law matters.
• Services UNCTAD intergovernmental meetings dealing with competition and/or consumer protection law and policy, including the UNCTAD Intergovernmental Group of Experts on Competition Law and Policy and the Intergovernmental Group of Experts on Consumer Protection Law and Policy, including preparation of background materials, summaries of issues and views of delegations, meeting reports, etc.
• Prepares programmes of technical assistance and provides substantive backstopping to technical assistance activities on competition and/or consumer protection laws and policies, including the organization of field national and regional seminars and workshops for Government officials, enterprises, consumer organizations or academics on competition and/or consumer protection law and policy, and training of officials responsible for application of such laws.

What it takes

• Advanced university degree (Master’s degree or equivalent) in international law is required.
• A minimum of five years of progressively responsible experience in law, including legal analysis, research and writing is required.
• Experience in competition and/or consumer protection laws and policies is desirable.
• Experience in international competition and/or consumer protection research, policy formulation and analysis and technical cooperation and capacity building is desirable.
• Experience in intergovernmental support and project or programme management in the field of international competition and/or consumer protection is desirable.
• Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of French, Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), Russian, or Spanish is desirable.

What you'll bring

How to apply

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