Manager: Corporate Legal Services - Pretoria, South Africa - Secondments Recruitment

Secondments Recruitment

Verified Company

Pretoria, South Africa

1 week ago

Posted by:

Thabo Mthembu

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Description

Job Advert Summary:

The purpose of this position is to guide, assist and support the company to execute its audit mandate, functions, and powers in accordance with the law.

In addition to the ordinary suite of commercial legal services, the incumbent assists leadership to manage all litigation and relevant external legal relationships of the company.

Minimum Requirements:

TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES
Technical Competencies

Relationship management

Ability to effectively establish and manage sound relationships with stakeholders.

Analytical skill

Ability to gather and analyze data, employ creative thinking, demonstrate problem solving and draw effective conclusions.

Business and report writing

Ability to create purposeful, precise, succinct, and unique reports and documents.

Research skills

Ability to look for, identify, gather, interpret, and evaluate relevant information.

GENERAL REQUIREMENTS
Minimum requirement

Formal Education

LLB
Admitted as attorney or advocate of the High Court of South Africa
Post graduate qualification in civil law/law of evidence will be an added advantage.
Post graduate qualification in constitutional or administrative law will be an added advantage.

Experience

5 years post admission litigation and dispute resolution experience in a law firm or at a society of advocates (Bar) with court experience (has run cases from inception to conclusion, including pre-trial/hearing, post-trial/hearing, and litigation/dispute resolution settlement experience)
Experience in developing and implementing a litigation strategy.
Experience in civil law, civil procedure, and law of evidence
Experience in commercial litigation
Experience in constitutional and administrative law litigation
Good communication, presentation and facilitation skills are essential.
Drafting, report writing, and analytical skills required
Work with mínimal supervision and often outside of normal business hours
The knowledge of relevant legislation and statutory requirements i.e., to monitor, evaluate, analyze, and interpret statutory requirements and compliance.

Duties and Responsibilities:

KEY PERFORMANCE AREAS (KPA's)

Strategic Function

Provide authoritative legal advice and support to the company's governance structures.

Provide authoritative legal advice and support on company's core (audit and investigation) and non-core functions with a strong focus on managing the litigation risk for the organization, including the resolution of disputes prior to litigation.

Contribute to the financial viability of the institution through debt collection.

Product Management

Norms and standards for quality control

Conduct local and international research to identify best practice.
Draft uniform norms and standards for quality assurance of legal products.
Assist in the development of related training material and the presentation thereof to all affected legal advisors.
Track and monitor the compliance with the norms and standards.

Legislative development

Conduct continuous research to gauge the adequacy and relevance of the company enabling legislation.
Draft company enabling legislation, amendments thereto and regulations.
Assist the leadership to pass legislative changes through the parliamentary process.
Assist the organization to implement and align to changes to the enabling legislation.
Regulatory instruments
Provide legal input into regulatory instruments developed by instrument owners.

Knowledge and information management

Develop and maintain a centralized database of legal guidance and legal opinions.
Gather and management information from other legal teams.

Stakeholder Management

Establish, build, and maintain collaborative working relationships with relevant internal stakeholders.
Build and maintain positive and value-adding relationships with relevant external stakeholders.
Co-ordinate stakeholder engagements/meetings for the management team and ensure proper record keeping.
Scan the environment to ensure a clear understanding of stakeholder needs.
Proactively interact with stakeholders to determine their needs and deliver on them accordingly.

Engage with both internal and external stakeholders to identify and evaluate performance barriers and success in order to continuously improve on the service delivery.

Work in collaboration with colleagues in the centre to ensure timeous delivery of the work.
Establish and maintain relations with recognized professional bodies within their own professional sphere.
Manage service level agreements (SLAs).

People Management

Manage own and team performance.
Motivate, coach and mentor staff to ensure maximum productivity and development of the staff to their full potential.
Provide leadership and direction to the team.
Participate and/or take lead in the business unit transformation/culture plans.
Provide support to the management team with regard to centre management and other people related tasks.

Financial management and operational management

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