Legal Advisor

**General Information**:
**Vacancy number**
- 963/2025

**Recruitment type**
- External recruitment (international)

**Type of contract**
- CDD

**Posted date**
- 04-Mar-2025

**Deadline to apply**
- 01-Apr-2025

**Duty station**
- The Hague

**Grade**
- A1/A2

**Entity**
- Register of Damage caused by the aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine

**Description & Requirements**:
**Your Team**

The **Register of Damage for Ukraine** was established in May 2023 through an Enlarged Partial Agreement of the Council of Europe. The Register has its seat in The Hague, Netherlands. It serves as a record, in documentary form, of claims and evidence on damage, loss or injury caused by the Russian Federation’s internationally wrongful acts in or against Ukraine. The Register receives claims from individuals, businesses and state and municipal entities in Ukraine about damage, loss or injury that they have suffered because of the Russian aggression in Ukraine, with the purposes of creating a factual and evidentiary basis upon which Ukraine and Ukrainians will seek reparations for Russia’s violations of international law.

The team within which you will work is the Legal Division of the Register. The main task of the legal team is to review and process incoming claims and to assist the Executive Director in formulating recommendations to the Board of the Register.

**Your Role**

As a** Legal Advisor**, you will:

- review and process incoming claims and pre-screen them against the established eligibility criteria for their inclusion into the Register (manually or with the use of specialised software and other digital tools);
- contribute to the formulation of recommendations to that effect to the Head of the Legal Division and the Executive Director;
- contribute to keeping an accurate record of claims brought before the Register;
- ensure that proper policies, procedures and guidelines for claims processing are applied;
- perform extensive legal research and analysis and prepare legal opinions, studies, briefs, reports and correspondence, as required;
- support the Head of the Legal Division and the Executive Director in assisting the Board with performance of its functions and in providing it with an efficient and high quality level Secretariat;
- support the Head of the Legal Division and the Executive Director in ensuring that policies, procedures and guidelines for claims processing are up-to-date and contribute to the drafting of amendments and internal rules and regulations;
- perform other job-related duties as required.

**Requirements to apply**

You must:

- hold a higher education degree or qualification in law, preferably equivalent to a master's degree (**2nd cycle of the Bologna process framework of qualifications for the European Higher Education Area**);
- after having obtained the relevant degree in law, have at least four years of professional or academic experience in a legal field, including some recent experience demonstrating a combined knowledge of questions of State responsibility, due process, and rules and standards of evidence, preferably in a civil litigation context (including but not limited to litigation, arbitration, or other dispute resolution mechanisms);
- have a very good knowledge of one of the Council of Europe’s official languages (English) and basic knowledge of the other (French) or the ability to acquire that basic knowledge on the job.

You must also:

- be a citizen of one of the member States of the Council of Europe or of a State that is a Participant or Associate Member of the Register of Damage for Ukraine, and fulfil the conditions for appointment to the civil service;
- have discharged any obligation concerning national service (military, civil or comparable);
- not be the parent, child, stepchild or grandchild of a serving staff member of the Council of Europe;
- be under the age of 65 years.-
**Key competencies**
- Operational - Planning and work organisation
- Operational - Analysis and problem solving
- Interpersonal - Teamwork and co-operation
- Interpersonal - Adaptability
- Professional and technical expertise:

- thorough knowledge of international law;
- proven experience of drafting high quality legal texts in English.

**Desirable competencies**
- Operational - Concern for quality
- Operational - Learning and development
- Professional and technical expertise:

- experience from working on large and complex litigations or mass claims with arbitral tribunals or institutions, national courts, or law firms;
- knowledge of Ukrainian.

**What we offer**

This job vacancy is for an international external recruitment. You can consult the conditions of employment (salaries, allowances, pension scheme, social insurance, etc.) on the webpage **What we offer**.

**Applications and selection procedure**

**Important information