Manager: Legal Advisory Services

2 weeks ago

Pretoria, South Africa Only the Best Full time

**Skills**:

- LegalLegal AdviceLegal Administration

**Industries**:

- Government

**Description**:
**Providing Legal advice**
- Render professional legal advice to ensure all actions/resolutions are complying with the statutory requirements.
- Interact with other spheres of government in developing sound working relations and to minimise areas of dispute or potential dispute in the legal context.
- Provide legal advice/assistance in the formulation of policies and procedures to ensure that policies comply with all relevant legislation including the constitutional mandate.
- Interact with external legal advisors with regards to any legal matters.
- Review legal documents, instruments, or other material, identifying important issues, similarities and inconsistencies and advice accordingly.
- Prepare legal opinions/advice on a wide range of law issues.
- Litigation management and review of the recommendations of the Panel Attorneys and Law Advisors with regard to court cases and legal administrative affairs.
- Provide legal advice on human resources matters and assists in reviewing administrative decisions.
- Administer programmes of legal technical assistance.
- Serve on various legal committees.
- Give advice regarding problems of interpretation, legal liability, exercising of powers, other legal matters and the efficient functioning of the legal/judicial system.
- Prepare case files, draft legal documents for the Attorney/ Law Advisors to provide formal legal advice.
- Provide input to subordinates to prepare and draft legal documents.
- Give written instruction to subordinates to comply with review directives.
- Ensure that cases relating to administrative appeals of the Fund, are researched and prepared accordingly.
- Authorize payment of valid claims and determine method of payment.
- Provide advice to the Senior Management and the Line Managers across the range of the Department’s legal interests, risks and obligations.
- Contribute a legality assurance perspective to the Fund’s strategic and governance processes, particularly the executive decision-making process.
- Build understanding of legal issues, risks and obligations through advice, communications and training, especially for other legal services staff and managers.

**Preparing legal documents and reports**
- Draft reports or briefs on legal or legal policy.
- Research applicable legislation and principles relating to the legal document in question, achieving compliance.
- Draft various legal communications based on information provided, with proper consideration to legal implications of a response.
- Provide inputs within the stipulated time frames in the compilation of annual audit report at the financial year-end.
- Provide legal advice or comments on reports that has to be tabled before management.
- Compile interim audit reports required by the Senior Manager: Legal Services during the year, highlighting potential risk areas and making legal recommendations.

**Managing and developing staff**
- Monitor performance of direct reports, check that all is aligned with planned targets.
- Allocate work according to the urgency of the matter and according to the individual workload, expertise, and developmental needs of the individual.
- Identify development and succession planning requirements.
- Monitor that outputs achieve the business unit requirements.

**Company Description**:
A leading pension fund administrator is seeking an experienced Manager to head up their Legal Advisory Services

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