International Centre for Tax and Development

Senior Policy Analyst, Legal

International Centre for Tax and Development

part-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Burkina Faso

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Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • Contribute to identifying challenges, emerging issues, and solutions
  • Promote a culture of high performance, continuous improvement, and shared learning
  • Manage own time and inputs into projects so as to deliver research outputs on time and to budget
  • Support fundraising efforts by contributing to proposals for funding and business development materials
  • Identify fundraising opportunities based on existing work or new ideas
  • Undertake research and contribute to publications to raise awareness, build knowledge, and propose policy recommendations for investment treaties, national investment laws, and investment contracts reform
  • Develop and conduct capacity-building sessions for government policy-makers at the national and regional levels (along with civil society organizations) on investment governance, legal, and policy frameworks reforms
  • Undertake legal and policy review of existing investment legal and policy frameworks
  • Track, engage, and contribute to global and regional reform processes relevant for investment treaties, laws, and contract reforms
  • Keep up to date regarding emerging issues related to the workstream
  • Contribute to the development of communications materials to communicate the workstream's work and its components to a broader audience
  • Present the workstream work at forums, conferences, and public events
  • Identify and maintain contacts with domestic and international project partners
  • Contribute to the organization and documentation of webinars, meetings, trainings, and public consultations as required
  • Participate in project missions, arranging elements of missions as appropriate.

Requirements

  • 3–5 years of relevant work experience in policy and/or research in the legal sector or an equivalent combination of education and professional experience
  • Proven experience in legal research
  • Excellent research and writing skills, including proven experience designing and carrying out policy-oriented research
  • Strong qualitative and quantitative data analytical skills
  • Working fluency in English and French
  • Excellent computer skills, including Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and automated referencing software
  • Excellent organizational, presentation, and planning skills
  • Ability to travel internationally, particularly in Africa
  • Experience conducting technical assistance or capacity-building projects in developing countries would be an asset
Benefits
  • IISD is committed to fostering a more equitable and sustainable world
  • Reasonable accommodations in our recruitment process
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