Summary
Date Posted: Monday, July 10 2023, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Job Summary
• The Legal Manager is responsible for providing legal advice to support business stakeholders and ensuring legal compliance in respect of business decisions, processes and documentation. The person in this role is also responsible for providing legal support for training programs for employees and vendors. He/she is also responsible to manage any outsourced legal partners.

Responsibilities /Key Deliverables
• Provide day to day legal and regulatory support to the functional areas covering general advisory and legal opinions.
• Support on commercial engagements with customers and negotiating, reviewing, and drafting customer contracts.
• Participate in procurement processes to ensure compliance with Company policies and vendor compliance with service levels in contracts.
• Support as a key account manager for assigned telecom operators/customers and address and respond to customer complaints, customer demands and offer legal advisory as required in a timely manner.
• Support in landlord and vendor management through amicable resolution of disputes to ensure they do not result into litigation.
• Effective litigation management through managing external legal counsel, update, and maintenance of a litigation diary, engaging with relevant departments, and identifying witnesses, notifying, and organizing pre-trial briefing for the Company’s witnesses and their attendance for hearing of suits; administration of the litigation files, and containment of legal costs in line with budget.
• Participate in drawing and vetting of other contractual instruments such as ground leases, vendor contracts and any other legal instruments.
• Support the property team with respect to legal due diligence of property related documentation through review of proof of ownership documents as well as landlord negotiations, managing vendors, site access issues, responding to letters, landlord disputes.
• Support in carrying out legal audits for compliance, and monitoring compliance with legal and statutory requirements of the Company.
• Support in mentoring legal or graduate trainees assigned to the department and within the organization.
• Ensure compliance to the Company Policies, Regulations, Standards and Procedures to enhance operational efficiency.

Job Description
• Generate reports to Line Manager on litigation matters, contracts, commercial transactions, and any other relevant assignments.

Person Specification
Education, Training,
Skills & Experience
Qualifications:
• Ability to work with all levels of management
• Good organizational and communication skills (written and verbal)
• Able to work independently as well as in a team
• Ability to multitask and meet deadlines
• Self-motivated and driven
• Ability to train others
• Good presentation skills (power point is an added advantage)
• High level of integrity
• Strong follow up and follow through
• Relationship management competency
• Strong negotiation skills
• Excellent communication skills
• Well organized
• Teamwork-driven
• Results-oriented

Education and Experience:
• LLB Degree or equivalent foreign qualification
• Admitted lawyer with 4 + years relevant experience in applying general commercial and corporate law.
• Helpful if the candidate also has 3+ years of property law and/or telecommunications law experience.

Environment
• Approximately 90% performed in climate-controlled internal office environment working under normal office conditions. Approximately 5-10% travel will be required in support of the position’s responsibilities.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand,walk, use hands and finger to feel and handle, reach with arms and hands, talk, and hear.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee frequently is required to stoop, kneel, and crouch, lift weight or exert a force up to a maximum of 12kgs.

Additional
• We are a dynamic organization in a rapidly changing industry. Accordingly, the responsibilities associated with this job will change from time to time in accordance with the Company’s business needs. More specifically, the individual may be required to perform additional and/or different responsibilities from those set forth above.
• The above declarations are not intended to be an all-inclusive list of the duties and responsibilities of the job described, nor are they intended to be such a listing of the skills and abilities required to do the job. Rather, they are intended only to describe the general nature of the job.

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 48

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

Job application procedure
• To apply, please send your Resume to s.ashaba@truenorthafrica.com  before 20th July, 2023. Ensure to indicate the role you are applying for in the subject.

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