UNITAID Seeks Legal Officer to Advance Global Health Initiatives and Partnerships
UNITAID Seeks Legal Officer to Advance Global Health Initiatives and Partnerships
- Contract Duration: 24 months
- Organization: UT/UTD UNITAID International drug purchase facility
- Location: Switzerland-Geneva
- Closing Date: Mar 24, 2025
UNITAID is hiring a Legal Officer to provide expert legal guidance and support. This role is crucial for enhancing global health initiatives, ensuring compliance, and fostering partnerships to combat health challenges worldwide.
Unitaid is a global development agency engaged in finding global health solutions, including new ways to prevent, diagnose and treat diseases more quickly, cheaply and effectively, in low and middle-income countries. Its mission is to maximize the effectiveness of the global health response by catalyzing equitable access to better health products. This includes providing funding to facilitate or accelerate the development or market entry of new health products or create sustainable markets for existing health products that are needed to expand or optimize prevention, diagnosis or treatment. Unitaid is hosted by WHO.
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Responsibilities
- Providing recommendations and high-quality legal services as the legal advisor on a wide range of legal issues designated by the Senior Legal Officer,
- Proactively identifying legal, commercial or ethical risks, together with any opportunities associated with Unitaid’s work and investments.
- Providing clear and timely advice, together with pragmatic recommendations on the management and mitigation risks and following up as necessary.
- Leading on the drafting, negotiating and/or advising on legal documentation
- Advising on data privacy issues and ethical requirements for clinical trials or other human subject research funded by Unitaid.
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Requirements
- A master’s level degree in law, with an emphasis in commercial law subjects.
- Studies with respect to more than one legal system.
- Studies with an emphasis in intellectual property law.
- At least 7 years varied experience as a lawyer practicing commercial, and/or public international law, whether within a law firm or legal department of a company or international organization
- Experience in dealing with complex commercial legal issues and in negotiating and drafting complicated agreements.
