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