Assistant Director, EDLA Executive Office

The Assistant Director reports directly to the Executive Director Legal Affairs and General Counsel and is responsible for overseeing the day-to-day functions of the EDLA Executive Office, managing legal, organizational, and administrative issues. The role involves strategic initiative development, negotiation, team management, and coordination of key deliverables and reporting to senior management.

Responsibilities

• Assist the Executive Director Legal Affairs and General Counsel in managing activities in the EDLA, providing advice and recommendations.
• Plan, coordinate and prioritize activities related to legal advisory services on sensitive and strategic issues, procedural and organizational matters.
• Make recommendations to enhance functioning of areas under Executive Director’s responsibility focusing on legal, strategic and procedural matters.
• Draft or supervise drafting of correspondence, reports and strategic documents for governing and supervisory bodies or external entities.
• Identify challenges and propose actions.
• Coordinate with all components of the Organization to develop, communicate and implement priorities and coordination.
• Liaise and coordinate with Director Institutional Affairs and Director Legal Support to Programmes to support activities and reporting.
• Manage the EDLA Executive Office ensuring effective delivery against priorities, activities and timeframes.
• Act as point of contact with other departments regarding legal, procedural and strategic advice, staffing, priorities and deliverables.
• Manage day-to-day performance of the EDLA Executive Office including budget and staffing.
• Assign, supervise and ensure quality and prompt delivery of work of staff members.
• Manage stakeholder relationships and consultations at high level internally and externally.
• Organize and convene internal and external meetings related to areas of responsibility.
• Represent EDLA in meetings with internal and external stakeholders conveying views of the Executive Director Legal Affairs and General Counsel.
• Draft required agreements and protocols.
• Maintain cordial and collaborative relationships with member country National Central Bureaus, representatives of member countries and international organizations.
• Supervise work of EDLA Executive Office staff on specific programs, projects or tasks.
• Guide project teams to share common strategy and performance standards.
• Monitor progress against milestones and deadlines.
• Keep Executive Director Legal Affairs and General Counsel informed of progress and significant matters.
• Perform other duties as required by hierarchy.

Requirements

• Higher education in law (Master's, JD, LLM, LLD or equivalent).
• Specialization in public international law or criminal law, desired.
• Ten years' professional legal experience at increasing levels of responsibility in a legal, law enforcement, or policing environment.
• Experience supervising teams of lawyers and administrative staff.
• Sound knowledge of the legal aspects of law enforcement or police operations or projects, desired.
• Previous project management experience in multi-disciplinary projects, desired.
• Professional fluency in English.
• Knowledge of a second official working language (Arabic, French, Spanish) would be desirable.
• Knowledge of a third working language of the Organization would be an asset.
• Strong communication skills, both in written and oral form (public speaking and delivery of presentations).
• Personal and professional maturity.
• Strong management and coordination skills.
• Ability to maintain objectivity and apply logical, specifically inductive, reasoning.
• Ability to work in teams as well as individually with a minimum of supervision.
• Ability to synthesize and organize data.
• Ability to work persistently and under pressure.
• Good social, specifically multicultural skills.
• Political awareness and critical mind.
• Ability to solve problems quickly and effectively.
• Ability to resolve conflict to reach mutual consensus.

Skills

• Public International Law
• Criminal Law
• Legal Supervision
• Law Enforcement Legal Knowledge
• Project Management
• Team Management
• Legal Research
• Legal Drafting
• Negotiation
• Strategic Planning
• Conflict Resolution
• Data Synthesis
• Multicultural Competence
• Oral Presentation
• Written Communication
• Inductive Reasoning
• Organizational Coordination
• Legal Reporting

Languages

English, Arabic, French, Spanish