Overview
Lead the provision of senior institutional legal counsel, governance support, and co-ordination for legal, committee, and stakeholder-facing activities within the International Service for Remunerations and Pensions (ISRP).
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the provision of senior legal analysis and advice on pensions, remuneration, institutional obligations, governance arrangements, and interpretation of rules and regulations.
- Advise the Head of the ISRP, CRSG, CCR, CAPOC, and client organisations on complex legal, governance, and procedural matters.
- Oversee the preparation and quality assurance of legal opinions, technical notes, committee proposals, reports, and institutional documents.
- Ensure legal advice, institutional documents, and committee submissions are clear, consistent, risk-aware, and aligned with legal and governance frameworks.
- Lead the drafting, review, and presentation of complex legal, governance, policy, and institutional documents in English and French.
- Direct the Unit’s secretariat support to the CRSG, CCR, CAPOC, and related meetings.
- Ensure effective co-ordination with ISRP units, OECD legal services, committee representatives, Co-ordinated Organisations, and Associated Organisations.
- Represent the Unit in relevant discussions and maintain working relationships with senior stakeholders.
- Ensure clear and effective written and oral communication in English and French with committee representatives, senior stakeholders, Co-ordinated Organisations, and Associated Organisations.
- Lead and oversee the drafting, review, and negotiation of legal and institutional instruments.
- Support litigation-related work and complex individual cases by providing legal analysis, drafting input, and co-ordination.
- Provide legal analysis and drafting input in relation to dispute-related questions.
- Monitor legal and institutional developments affecting pension schemes, remuneration frameworks, and international administrative law.
- Oversee legal and governance aspects of data protection, confidentiality, and information handling.
- Ensure legal documentation, committee records, and sensitive information are handled in accordance with OECD rules and procedures.
- Orchestrate the implementation of data protection and information governance improvements.
- Ensure the Unit contributes effectively to the ISRP’s broader service delivery.
- Provide legal and governance input to cross-unit projects.
- Support the continuous improvement of Unit processes, documentation standards, and knowledge management practices.
- Lead, manage, and develop the Co-ordination Secretariat Unit, setting priorities, allocating work, and ensuring high-quality delivery.
- Foster a collaborative, inclusive, and accountable working environment.
Required Experience
Extensive professional experience providing legal advice in an international, intergovernmental or comparable institutional environment, including on the interpretation and application of rules, regulations and governance frameworks. Proven experience supporting or advising committees, governing bodies or senior management, including the preparation of legal opinions, technical notes, reports, proposals and institutional documentation. Strong knowledge of pensions, remuneration, international civil service law or institutional administrative law would be a distinct advantage. Proven ability to advise on complex legal, contractual and procedural matters, including memoranda of agreement, exchanges of letters, transfer of pension rights, dispute-related matters and governance documentation. Experience in managing, developing and motivating professional staff, setting priorities, ensuring quality control and supporting continuity of expertise. Proven ability to communicate complex legal, governance and procedural issues with clarity, tact and authority in a stakeholder-facing environment. Excellent drafting, analytical and communication skills in legal, governance, policy and international institutional contexts, with proven ability to prepare, review and present complex legal and institutional documents clearly and accurately in both English and French for senior legal and non-legal audiences.
Qualifications
An advanced university degree in law, preferably with a specialisation in public law, international administrative law, institutional law, international civil service law or another field relevant to the role.
