Manager: Legal Cooperate Services - Pretoria at Secondments

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

• 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 
• An ability to apply knowledge at strategic and business level.
• Good communication, presentation and facilitation skills are essential. 
• Drafting, report writing, and analytical skills required
• Work with minimal 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

• Contribute to the compilation of centre budget and manage project expenditure related to functional area.
• Ensure compliance to company policies and procedures.
• Ensure compliance with internal processes and procedures.
• Manage supply chain processes within scope of work.