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 Law Division is the lead Division charged with carrying out the functions of UNEP in the field of environmental law, environmental governance and related policy issues including those related to Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs). The Law Division promotes the contribution of the environmental dimension of sustainable development through law, national and international governance and related policy issues, including those related to MEAs. This position is located with the Collective Intelligence Unit of the UNEP Law Division, located in Geneva. The Legal Officer will report to the Unit head as embedded within the Office of the Director of the Law Division and will perform the following duties;

• Handles a range of issues related to the progressive development of international environmental law, environmental governance and Multilateral Environmental Agreements, the environmental rule of law, human rights, trade and the environment (substantive, procedural and comparative). • Directs, trains, and oversees the systematic collection, collation and indexing of environmental legislation, case law, relevant policy, and MEA documents, and leads the conceptualization, validation and implementation of online tools and services for the relevant stakeholders of the law division, including MEAs. • Conducts extensive legal research and analysis in the field of international environmental law and prepares online training material, such as the negotiators and compliance sections on InforMEA, but also the curriculum across the many different course portfolios on the Law Division