Rand Water previously known as the Rand Water Board is a South African water utility that supplies potable water to the Gauteng province and other areas of the country and is the largest water utility in Africa. The water is drawn from numerous sources and is purified and supplied to industry, mining and local municipalities and is also involved in sanitatio...
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Must have a minimum of 3 (three) to 8 (eight) years of experience in an in-house role of a leading organization dealing with the duties outlined above
Valid driver’s license.
Desirable:
Must have strong litigation experience and is able to assist Rand Water with litigation management and management of external stakeholders such as external law firms.
Must have experience advising on transaction on construction matters, cross-border transactions, and financial sector regulatory framework, conducting due diligence exercise, negotiation, drafting and execution of documents forming part of the transactions.
Strong knowledge and understanding of Public-Private Partnerships.
Must have experience of providing advice on public sector procurement law, specifically advising on areas such as PPPFA, PFMA etc.
Must be able to negotiable, draft and vet contracts in the areas of general contract, cross-border transactions, preparations of particular conditions of contracts for FIDIC contracts e.t.c
Primary Duties
Manage and execute on all legal instructions allocated as and when required.
Provide strategic legal support, advice, guidance and provide direction to the Rand Water Group
Management of litigation/arbitration for and on behalf of Rand Water and liaise with internal stakeholders and be able to assist with development of best litigation strategies to be adopted for each matter and being able to formulate legal strategies in resolving litigation
Develop and implement legal strategies in support of Rand Water’s strategy and growth pillars.
Assessment of business needs and provide operational advice regarding contracting, projects implementation and assistance with operational support for the entire Rand Water Group.
Provide legal support to different committees which may be constituted subject to business needs such as providing support to Bid Committees, etc.
Preparing of memoranda, contracts, opinions, and other legal documents.
Ability to liaise external stakeholder such as appointed law firms in handling of litigation.
Ability to advise the organisation on prospects of success of each litigation, negotiate settlement of matters and advise on the best settlement terms as and when required.
Prepare instructions to external attorneys promptly and accurately and ensure that instructions are timeously given to the external law firms.
Conduct legal research and advise the organisation on the best and available legal strategies in line with the new, relevant, and correct legal principles.
Provide legal training to different business units on applicable legal issues which is relevant for a particular business unit;
Review and provide comments on bills, draft regulations, instruction notes and any other legal instruments which may have an impact on Rand Water Group.
Any other instruction of commercial and non-commercial nature based on Rand Water’s business needs.
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