Legal Advisor: Commercial

5 months ago

Pretoria, South Africa Technology Innovation Agency Full time

**Job Advert Summary**:
Technology Innovation Agency (TIA) is a talent driven, customer
- centric and impact focused organisation. In our endeavour to support technology innovation with socio-economic outcomes; we seek to infuse the organisation with team players that find resonance as value creators, agile thinkers, progressive attitudes, customer-centricity, dynamic work ethic and an optimistic disposition. We aim to harness these attributes in a manner that they culminate into a culture of teamwork, impact and accountability.

**Job Purpose**:
To provide legal services, including support and advice to all TIA Business Units, and, in respect of TIA projects/programs, to ensure that TIA is protected by sound legal contracts

**Minimum Requirements**:

- Bachelor’s degree in Law (e.g. LLB or related)
- Seven (7) years’ post admission
- Admission as an Attorney or Advocate
- Two (2) years’ experience in a commercial or intellectual property environment and/or prior exposure to the technology innovation environment.
- Litigation experience

**Knowledge and Skills**
- Knowledge of Laws, legislation and compliance requirements for the various operational aspects of TIA.
- Sound Knowledge of the Public Finance Management Act, 1999 (Act No. 1 of 1999).
- Investment trends for technology development (optional).
- Business acumen
- Commercial decision-making
- Communication - written and verbal
- Assertive
- Critical judgment
- Customer Centricity
- Impact and influence

**Duties and Responsibilities**:
**Financial management and revenue growth**
- Contributed towards saving for TIA by limiting operational costs, also complying with the National Treasure Cost Containment Measures

**Stakeholder management**
- Participate in establishing cooperative customer relationships with stakeholders internally and externally.
- Provide quality services that meets corporate programme and project needs of TIA.
- Represent the Head: Legal Services on various committees as may be required.

**Internal Processes**
- Provide input in the formulation of the operational business plan for the Legal Services BU.
- Provide input in the formulation of legal policies, guidelines, frameworks and business processes.
- Provide input in the review of the Standard Operating Procedures of the Legal Services BU.
- Monitor own turnaround times to ensure timeous completion of work.
- Capture all legal information relating to TIA operations on the applicable systems.
- Ensure an optimal process for workflow management is implemented in the BU.
- Produce workflow management status reports as and when required.
- Assist with quality assurance of work produced by the Legal Advisors.
- Keep record of his/her workflow (own database).
- Conduct due diligences on TIA’s projects and programs.
- Draft contracts for TIA operations, TIA projects and TIA programs.
- Draft legal opinions.
- Identify and report on potential legal risks
- Ensures that Departmental Information systems and tools are optimally utilised to execute core tasks.
- Identify and implement development opportunities to ensure continuous improvement of work effectiveness and efficiency.
- Identify root causes of delays in the processes and implement measures to address the delays.
- Project information accurately using the relevant information management systems in place

**Governance and Compliance**
- Participate in the internal and external audit exercise and resolution of all audit matters in the BU.
- Ensure compliance with applicable legislation.
- Ensure compliance with all TIA’s policies, frameworks, guidelines and systems (performance management, HR, Finance, Stakeholder information, fund management, reporting, etc).
- Ensure compliance with regards to the implementation of internal policies and procedures.
- Proactively identify and address internal and external risks to protect the organisation.

**Quality**
- Ensure information systems and tools are optimally utilised to execute core tasks.
- Quality assurance of all reports, memos, working papers.
- Proactively identify continual improvement strategies.
- Monitor agreed quality initiatives ensuring that it is aligned to business processes and delivered as agreed.
- Initiate new projects that will improve how the Legal Services BU supports the business

**Learning and Growth**
- Mentor other Legal Advisors to transfer knowledge and skill.
- Attend work-related, self-development courses including training (both external and internal) seminars, conferences, webinars and workshops

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