Pollution Legal Specialist at United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Under the guidance of the Head of the Frontiers in Environmental Law Unit and in consultation with the Industry and Economy Division, the consultant is expected to handle a range of pollution-related legal issues including those connected with UNEP’s Plastics and Textiles Initiatives and UNEP’s work on minerals governance. Specifically, the consultant is expected to:
• conduct extensive legal research and analysis on regulatory measures to assist countries to transition towards a circular economy for plastics and textiles.
• undertake basic or extensive review of legal documents, instruments, and other materials on environmental law matters, with a focus on pollution-related legal issues.
• draft legal opinions/advice, as well as background papers, studies, briefs, reports, legislative texts, and correspondence on a range of environmental law matters, with a focus on pollution-related legal issues.
• provide legal technical guidance/advice to programme to support countries to transition towards a circular and sustainable economy, with a particular focus on plastics, textiles and minerals; including partnership arrangement with the governments, non-governmental organization, other public and private entities.
• provide expert support to the international environmental law seminars, conferences, or other fora, including the preparation of background materials, summaries of issues and views of delegations, meeting outcome reports, etc.
• collect and analyze data to identify trends or patterns and provide insights through graphs, charts, tables and reports using data visualization methods to enable data driven planning, decision-making, presentation and reporting; and provide substantive guidance to the delivery/implementation of the pollution action work.

Qualifications/special skills

• Advanced university degree (Master’s degree or equivalent) in environmental law, international law, human rights or a related field.
• A first-level university degree in law in combination with qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
• A minimum of five (5) years of progressively responsible experience in law, including legal analysis, research and writing is required.
• Prior experience working on international and/or national environmental law relating to pollution issues is required.
• Prior experience working with the UN or similar international organizations is required
• A minimum of two (2) years or more of experience in data analytics or related area is desirable.

Deadline : Nov 6, 2024