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  • Posted: Nov 10, 2017
    Deadline: Nov 16, 2017
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    The Development Bank of Southern Africa ("DBSA”) is a development finance institution wholly owned by the South African Government. Its purpose is to accelerate sustainable socio-economic development to improve the quality of life of the people in South Africa, SADC and Rest of Africa by providing financial and non-financial investments in the social a...
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    Senior Legal Advisor

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    To proactively advise and support clients on the legal aspects of financing activities of DBSA. Ensuring that a particular situation, action, initiative or investment does not have an adverse reputational or other negative consequence for the DBSA. Provide guidance and leadership to more junior legal advisors

    The key accountabilities, interfaces and measures of this role is further elaborated below:

    • As a member of core project teams, assist Investment Officers in the structuring of various investment projects, with emphasis on project finance transactions.
    • Conduct comprehensive legal due diligence investigations.
    • Conduct advanced research into a wide variety of legal issues relating to various investment projects.
    • Provide advice and make legal inputs into the drafting of Appraisal Reports.
    • Serve and participate in various credit committees of the DBSA.
    • Prepare/review or negotiate full Term Sheets in respect of all investment projects with emphasis on project finance transactions
    • Lead negotiations with clients/co-Funders and stakeholders.
    • Draft/vet and review a wide variety of complex legal documents and agreements.
    • Provide substantial legal advice, support and opinions to various corporate support units of the DBSA.
    • Ensure compliance with various legislation, policies and regulations.
    • Monitor developments in the legal field and provide updates to colleagues and management.
    • Liaise with external attorneys and prepare comprehensive brief to attorneys where necessary and manage the transactions with external counterparts.
    • Assist in the execution and implementation of different investment projects from a legal and security point of view.
    • Provide general legal support to the operational and corporate small units of the DBSA
    • Expertise & Technical Competencies
    • LLB degree or other relevant post graduate qualification
    • Admitted Attorney/Advocate of the High Court of South Africa
    • At least 4 years post qualification experience in Project/Corporate/Structured Finance transactions.
    • Private Public Partnership experience will be an added advantage.
    • International/ cross –border experience will be an added advantage.
    • Any experience in Municipal Finance experience will be an added advantage.
    • Qualified and enrolled Solicitor of the Courts of England & Wales will be an added advantage.
    • Fluency in French/ Portuguese will be an added advantage
    • A minimum of 5 years post qualification experience in a commercial/finance/banking or corporate law environment gained at a commercial banking, specialist law firm/ corporate or similar institution.

    Required Personal Attributes The incumbent should have demonstrated the following competencies:

    • Information Seeking and Analysis
    • Driven by curiosity, inquisitiveness and desire to know more about things or issues. It also reflects understanding a situation, issue, problem by breaking it into smaller pieces, or tracing the implications of a situation in a step-by-step way.
    • Self Awareness & Self Control
    • The ability to keep one’s emotions under control and restrain negative actions when provoked, when faced with opposition or hostility from others, or when working under conditions of stress. It also includes the ability to maintain stamina under continuing stress.
    • Flexibility
    • The ability to adapt to and work effectively within a variety of situations, and with various individuals or groups. Flexibility entails understanding and appreciating different and opposing perspectives on an issue, adapting one’s approach as the requirements of a situation change, and changing or easily accepting changes in the job requirements or DBSA as a whole.
    • Decisiveness
    • Is the confidence and ability to take timely and appropriate decisions to further business objectives. It includes investing a level of effort which is appropriate to the decision in hand and ranges from taking routine decisions promptly to making decisions which may be risky or unpopular, and requires the use of judgment.
    • Impact and Influence
    • Implies an intention to persuade, convince, influence, or impress others (individuals or groups) in order to get them to go along with or to support own agenda.
    • Achievement Orientation
    • A concern for working well or for surpassing a standard of excellence. The standard may be one’s own past performance (striving for improvement); an objective measure (results orientation); outperforming others (competitiveness); challenging goals one has set, or even what anyone has ever done (innovation)

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