Paralegal Officer

8 months ago


Sandton, South Africa IDC Full time

**Job Description** A fixed term contract exists at our Head office in Sandton for a Paralegal Officer within the Legal Services. This position will be based on a 12-month fixed term contract**.

**JOB PURPOSE**

Provide support to Legal Advisors and external lawyers on all commercial activities.

**Qualification and Experience**
**QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED**:

- Minimum: Paralegal Diploma

**EXPERIENCE & KNOWLEDGE REQUIRED**:

- 3-5 years relevant working experience in a legal firm or financial institution.
- Experience in issuing of instructions to external lawyers and conveyancers.
- Proficiency on Microsoft Packages.
- SAP, SharePoint & Docupedia (Advantageous).

**TECHNICAL/FUNCTIONAL COMPETENCIES**
- Administration and telephone skills
- Planning and organizing skills
- Attention to detail
- Ability to liaise and engage with clients
- Stakeholder Engagement Skills
- Minute taking skills
- Follow through skills

**BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES**
- Interpersonal skills
- Good Communication Skills (both written and verbal)
- Good ethics, integrity, and high level of professionalism
- Coping with Pressures and Setbacks

**Roles and Responsibilities**
- Providing support to legal advisors in respect of all commercial activities.
- populating agreements.
- Attend to administrative tasks.
- Timeous generation of standard agreements and documents (i.e. loan agreements, security documents (including guarantees, deeds of cession and subordination agreements), addenda, Letters of Amendments (LoAs) and Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs).
- Taking of minutes of meetings.
- Maintaining the general filing system and file all correspondence, as well as maintain electronic filing on Docupedia.

Job Reference: IDC00023


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