- Providing legal support to the management team in daily work - Supervising Legal Services staff and corresponding with outside legal representatives - Monitoring compliance with the requirements of Russian legislation and identification of the potential risk areas; - Drafting, revising different kinds of legal documents including negotiating and drafting various contracts - Interacting with public authorities

- Providing legal support of various activities, advice, revision and negotiation of supply, procurement, service contracts, copyright and license agreements. - Drafting legal documents (agreements, memoranda, legal opinions) - Developing of policy on IP issues for sharing of course materials etc. - Monitoring developments in the field of law at the international and national levels. - Strengthening Organization’s governance, development, modernization, and implementation of templates, internal policies and regulations; - Liaising with public authorities.

- Conducting legal research on issues relating to public international law, international administrative law, disciplinary law, and other areas required for legal representation of the UN staff members; - Assisting in client and file management including conducting client interviews, planning litigation strategy under the supervision of OSLA legal officers; - Drafting legal documents and submissions to the UN Dispute and Appeals Tribunals; - Evaluate employees' job performance and conformance to regulations; - Attending and taking notes at interviews, conferences and hearings; - Working on presentations for client outreach and promotion of Rule of Law in the UN system.

- General advisory work in the department; - Implementation of policies, procedures, and service standards; - Interpretation and communication of work procedures and organization’s policies to staff; - Collected and analysed information on approaches and developments in legislation and policy approaches in member states - Routine clerical and organizational work: maintaining and organizing files, drafting documents and messages, schedule appointments; - Assistance in the evaluation of Government compliance with international conventions - Preparation of documents, background information, newsletters, presentations, public information materials, including informal translation of documents.

- Performing legal research in the OSCE internal database and documents as well as in other publicly available sources, with a view to facilitating the preparation, by the Legal Services team, of legal opinions, memoranda, agreements or other documents for the attention of the Secretariat, - Negotiating and reviewing various contracts (cooperation, license agreements etc.) - Assisting colleagues in providing legal services - Analysing the findings of the research tasks assigned; - Participating in meetings of the OSCE structures and reporting to the Senior Legal Adviser on discussions at those meetings, with particular emphasis on the deliberations/issues that raise legal questions and/or are of relevance to the work of Legal Services;