Responsibilities
- Drafts legal opinions and provides legal advice on complex legal matters, on the interpretation and application of OSCE Staff and
Financial Regulations, decisions and instruction, especially for the field operations
- Prepares legal advice on diverse substantive and procedural questions including matters involving the status, mandate, institutional and
operational modalities of the OSCE institutions and especially the field operations
- Deals with multidisciplinary and complex legal matters, including contentious claims which require the application of law and legal
analysis of detailed technical, commercial and financial facts, especially in relation to the field operations and extra-budgetary activities
- Reviews and provides advice on draft contracts, agreements, and other legal documents, in particular related to extra-budgetary activities
- Participates in negotiations with senior executives of various commercial and non-commercial organizations for the purpose of concluding
major contracts
Requirements
- Advanced university degree in law with specialisation in international, commercial labour or comparative law
- Minimum of six years of directly related professional experience, including four years at the international level
- Professional fluency in the English language, including excellent drafting skills; knowledge of other OSCE working languages would be an
asset
Deadline: 18 July 2013