Senior Legal Advisor

5 months ago

Midrand, South Africa DBSA Full time

The role of the Senior Legal Advisor is to provide leadership in the delivery of reliable, accurate, timely and well-informed advice to the DBSA on corporate legal issues including labour matters and the potential legal implications of various corporate strategies and business initiatives and projects. To provide guidance and leadership to junior legal advisors.

**Key Responsibilities**:
**Legal Advisory Functions**

Provide legal advice and support to DBSA’s corporate units including Finance, Treasury, Procurement, Strategy, Human Capital, Information Communications Technology (ICT), Communications and Marketing unit.

Research and communicate the risks and legal issues involved in a broad range of commercial transactions and operational issues specific to DBSA’s corporate unit.

Draft/vet and review a variety of corporate legal contracts including services, consultancy, software/hardware support, lease, finance and grant agreement.

Ensure compliance with various legislation, policies and regulations.

Provide general legal advice on procurement, supply chain and tender process.

Direct negotiation with the service providers and consultants.

Manage corporate litigation.

Participate in procurement and investment committees of the DBSA.

Monitor developments in the legal field and provide updates to management.

Identify matters requiring specialist legal input and instruct and liaise with appropriate external counsel.

Liaise with external attorneys and prepare comprehensive brief to attorneys where necessary.

Manage the legal budget for appointment of external legal service provider and ensure work is done cost effectively.

**Key Measurements of Outputs**

Time taken to prepare and or review contracts, agreements and legal opinions.

Quality and accuracy of agreements, opinions and solutions provided.

Effective management of legal claims and litigation risks.

Management of total case / agreement / opinion / other legal costs.

No litigation due to contractual errors and or omissions.

Effective monitoring of the contracts and agreements.

Clean audit.

**Expertise & Technical Competencies**:
**Minimum Requirements**:
A Bachelor of Laws degree (LLB) or Legal post graduate qualification.

Admitted Attorney/Advocate of the High Court of South Africa.

A minimum of 5 years’ experience in High Court litigation and/or corporate insolvency.

A minimum of 5 years post qualification experience in a commercial/finance/banking or corporate law environment gained at a commercial banking, specialist law firm/ corporate or similar institution.

**Desirable Requirements**:
Private public partnership experience.

Experience in legal investment.

**Technical Competencies**

***Written communication**:
Understands that different writing styles are required for different documents or audiences.

Write effective correspondence, prepares questions and reports, statements of circumstance and briefing notes.

Reviews others’ documents for clarity and impact.

Has a solid mastery of writing principles such as grammar, sentence construction etc.

**Presentation skills**:
Can reinforce key presentation points with examples.

Is able to translate technical terminology into language understandable to the audience.

Has insight into the audience’s behavior and motivation and responds appropriately and professionally, adapting communication style as appropriate.

**Reporting**:
Designs / customizes reports to meet user needs.

Prepares complex or tailored reports, gathers information from a variety of sources, analyses and includes in a report.

Keeps standard reports under review and proposes improvements to meet user needs.

**Legal Knowledge**:
Extensive knowledge and understanding of the principles of DBSA.

Wide-ranging knowledge of industry best practice, and keeps abreast of, interprets and informs on developments in the area of new laws and regulations relevant to DBSA.

**Legal Policy Knowledge**:
Ability to represent DBSA in the court of law when required.

Ability to draft non-standard legal documents per procedures.

Ability to draft more sensitive policy and legal procedures to be followed by stakeholders of DBSA, and review and refine in response to inputs from relevant stakeholders, for approval.

Ability to understand legal rights and responsibilities and the possession of authority to make legal decisions.

Protects the organisation’s legal rights, utilizing a broad knowledge base of all major legal disciplines.

**Presentation Skills**:
Has knowledge of various feedback mechanisms to check levels of audience understanding..

**Business Acumen**:
Takes actions to fit business strategy.

Assesses and links short-term tasks in the context of long-term business strategies or perspectives.

Anticipates possible responses to different initiatives.

Understands the projected direction of the industry and how changes might impact the organisation.

**Negotiations**:
Has an appreciation of cultural sensitiv

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