Legal and Ethics Officer at The South African Council for Educators (SACE)

Qualifications and Skills

• Matric Certificate, NQF Level 7 qualification in the field of law.
• 2-year relevant experience
• Computer literacy
• Investigation Skill, Prosecution skills, Alternative dispute Resolution skills
• Communication and interpersonal skills.

Investigate complaints

• Consult the complainant to establish jurisdiction and additional information
• Prepare and send out notices
• Visit the school
• Interview the Principal
• Interview Victim
• Interview the accused
• Interview witnesses
• Collect evidence and write the investigation report

Mediation of complaints

• Mediate were necessary
• Prepare and send out notices
• Mediation report

Prosecution in disciplinary hearings

• Send out summons and evidence
• Send out subpoenas
• Prepare a letter for the appointment of the presiding officer and/or prosecutor
• Conduct the hearing
• Submit the closing argument, mitigation, and aggravation circumstances
• Submit the report to the Manager for the Ethics Committee
• Prepare and send out a sanction letter
• Depending on the outcome, (unless there is an appeal) send out a memo to finance and/or registration divisions

Prosecution in appeal hearings

• Prepare and send out opposing statements
• Create a schedule
• Prepare and send out notices
• Appoint and appeal panel
• Prepare and send out bundles to the appeal panel
• Conduct the appeal hearing
• Depending on the outcome, send out a memo to finance and/or registration divisions
• Prepare and send sanction letter to the educator

Administration of the case management process

• Drafting of emails for all parties involved
• Responding to queries through emails and telephonic
• Quality assurance of reports from prosecutors, presiding offices, and investigators
• Make inputs on internal policies, SOPs, and legal opinions
• Open case files for media reported complaints