Business Analysis Manager

UNICEF's Legal Office supports the organization's business units around the world – our clients – by delivering strategic legal solutions through collaboration. We provide legal advice that is risk-informed, timely, responsive, and pragmatic. We empower clients and build their capacity to self-help. We proactively engage with clients to anticipate trends and challenges and develop systemic solutions; and we protect UNICEF by identifying legal, reputational and other risks, and helping to mitigate those risks.

Our lawyers are based in several UNICEF locations, including New York Headquarters, and in several other outposts, including Geneva, Copenhagen and Brussels and may expand to new locations in Asia.

UNICEF works in some of the world's toughest places, to reach the world's most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential.

Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.

And we never give up.

For every child, a champion

UNICEF's mission is to promote the rights of every child, everywhere, in everything the organization does. Our focus on equity accelerates progress towards realizing the human rights of all children, while also supporting the equitable development of nations.

We seek to hire an experienced lawyer to join the Legal Office team in New York Headquarters and to create a Talent Group for all our other locations, including New York, Geneva, and potential new locations in Asia.

The Lead, Legal Affairs Specialist in New York will support UNICEF's public partnerships, the international financial institutions portfolio and UNICEF's financial transactions, as well as supporting other business units globally on a broad spectrum of legal matters ranging from commercial contracts to partnerships, hosted partnerships, disputes, programmes, and institutional matters. The Lead, Legal Affairs Specialist in New York will report to the Chief of Public Partnerships, Institutional & Commercial.

Lawyers selected for inclusion in the Talent Group may be considered by the approval authority for other positions within the Legal Office as they become available without having to go through a separate competitive process. Being placed in the Talent Group does not guarantee automatic appointment to such posts. The decision to invite lawyers in the Talent Group to take up other positions is at the sole discretion of the Director of the Legal Office.

Members of the UNICEF Legal Office are expected to be open-minded and resourceful, responsive, and dynamic, transparent and approachable, and clear and authoritative. The overall direction of the Legal Office is set by the Director of the Legal Office in New York.

How you will make a difference

The Lead, Legal Affairs Specialist will independently, working closely with other team members and under the supervision of the Chief:

• partnerships with governments, international financial institutions, global philanthropic organizations and foundations, civil society organizations and private sector entities
• financial transactions, including both operational financial arrangements and grant agreements, direct and indirect financing transactions, and advising on the structuring and negotiation of novel financial instruments
• commercial transactions with UNICEF's wide variety of suppliers and contractors
• policy development and interpretation
• human resources matters (except tribunal cases)