Legal Project Manager

5 months ago

Cape Town, South Africa Cognia Law Full time

**Cognia Law is recruiting a Legal Project Manager. This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a global team driving change in legal services delivery.**
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**COMPANY PROFILE**:
Cognia seamlessly extends corporates, banks and law firms’ legal capability to deliver sustainable outcomes. Our goal is to connect the legal sector, moving it from a siloed approach to integrated partnerships. We help in-house legal teams by bringing simplicity to complex matters and replacing broken procedures with efficient processes.

Cognia is a Chambers-ranked law company which integrates how legal services are provided so our team, partners, clients and communities thrive together with people at the heart of what we do. We encourage our people to bring their whole self to work and focus on enabling them to realise their full potential.

**ROLE DESCRIPTION**:
**KEY RESPONSIBILITIES**:

- End-to-End project management of legal projects: from project scoping and set-up, through to execution and successful completion.
- Working as part of Cognia’s Delivery team to understand our clients challenges and requirements, and help deliver practical and innovative solutions.
- Facilitate team briefings and training, encompassing material creation and execution.
- Effectively manage teams of 10+ resources, ensuring productivity and maintaining high-quality standards.
- Proactively address risks, issues, and changes throughout project life cycles.
- Skilfully manage stakeholder relationships to foster collaboration and understanding.
- Lead lessons learned and project close-out activities for continuous improvement.
- Exercise control over project scope and budget to meet client expectations.
- Manage relationships clients, end-clients and other external stakeholders.
- Plan, organise, and control the delivery of work, ensuring efficiency and effectiveness.
- Develop new Project Management tools and methodologies to enhance project delivery efficiency.

**REQUIREMENTS**:

- A tertiary qualification in Law, Commerce or Information systems - with law being desired.
- Experience in eDiscovery would be advantageous.
- 1-5 years experience as a business facing project manager in Legal services sector. (Experience in Financial services or Professional services sector will be considered).
- Maturity and professionalism to be directly customer facing with international law firms, corporate clients and investment banking institutions.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, with the ability to analyse data and generate insightful reports.
- Articulate and confident.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
- High attention to detail.

**Additional Beneficial Skills**:

- Admitted Attorney
- Legal Tech certification would be advantageous(e.g Relativity, Nuix, RAVN, Kira)
- Experience in eDiscovery
- Numeracy
- Data Analytics/AI Data Modelling

**CANDIDATE COMPETENCIES**:

- Honest communication_
- Effectively articulates own views and rationale for them
- Communicates complex topics/concepts in simple ways
- Practices active listening
- Where they do not know the answer, they will be open but then take steps to find out and provide an update
- Being agile_
- Self-starter that is results focused
- Make suggestions for improvement from observations of other areas of the business or from external market
- Quickly understands complex information and applies it to current situations
- Adapts to fast-moving work environment where requirement and deadline frequently change
- Bringing the values alive_
- Prepares own development plan and takes responsibility for driving it, whilst utilising the resource and opportunities Cognia provides
- Suggests ways to further reinforce the Cognia values
- Highlights if other team members are struggling to balance work and wellbeing.
- Building strong relationships_
- Takes time to understand team members’ pressures in a wider context
- Publicly acknowledges help from others
- Actively encourages collaboration with others from across the business in projects
- Develops network inside and outside Cognia
- Delivering excellence_
- Views work as an opportunity to highlight ability and value to Cognia
- Retains focus and delivering best outcome
- Uses own time productively to deliver best outcome
- Delegates effectively but remains accountable for outcome
- Keen to take on tasks that benefit the wider business

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