Legal and Compliance Specialist

7 months ago

Cape Town, South Africa Root Platform Full time

Root is a fast-growing tech startup and we’re on a mission to build the future of insurance. We're looking for a creative, solutions-driven individual who has an interest in legal and compliance to join our Legal team.

As Legal and Compliance Specialist at Root, you will execute on our day-to-day legal and compliance operations under supervision from Root’s Head of Legal, ensuring the business meets its legal and contractual obligations while supporting the wider team.

This full-time role is based at our De Waterkant office in Cape Town, offering a flexible hybrid working model.

**️ What you'll do**:
**Provide proactive legal support to the Root team**
- Deliver high-quality legal advice and research on commercial, regulatory, and compliance matters.
- Draft and negotiate contracts that protect Root from risks but also foster positive, long-term relationships.

**Root's legal and contract management frameworks are maintained**
- Maintain and manage all contract lifecycle events and obligations, ensuring up-to-date contract information is accessible by the team.
- Keep the Root team informed and trained on changes in laws and regulations.
- Manage and maintain risk insurance policies for adequate protection.
- Brief and manage local and foreign legal counsel.

**With support from the Head of Legal, ensure Root complies where we operate**
- Monitor and ensure compliance with relevant legislation and regulations, including POPIA and GDPR.
- Assist in monitoring and managing risk, contributing to risk assessments and privacy impact assessments.
- Ensure internal risk and compliance controls, including privacy and information security controls, are operating effectively.
- Maintain and implement all company policies, including information security, anti-corruption, anti-bribery, and data privacy policies.

**We are looking for someone with**:

- LLB degree.
- Newly qualified to 1 year of post-admission experience at a reputable law firm, or a similar role in an in-house legal or compliance department.
- Experience advising or working at technology startups is advantageous.
- An entrepreneurial mindset.
- Excellent drafting skills.
- Strong attention to detail.
- Exceptional organisational skills and a commitment to project completion.
- Effective communication and teamwork skills.
- A curious and analytical way of thinking, and able to creatively problem-solve.
- Motivation to learn, research, guide, and teach.
- Flexibility and adaptability to change.

***:
**Who we are**:
Our mission is to enable innovation in insurance by building the infrastructure required to reach the future of insurance. We are striving to be the global API standard for insurance.

*** Root Values**:

- **Lead by example**:“Lean in, take charge, and always set a positive precedent.”
- **Exceed expectations**:“Know your customer to delight your customer.”
- **Rally as one team**:“Put aside egos and personal agendas to triumph as one.”
- **Own the mission**:“Your job is not done until the job is done.”
- **Rise to the challenge**:“Meaningful change requires meaningful effort and the courage to make bold moves.”

**How we enable success**:
Our team is made up of smart, passionate, and kind individuals working together to build a world-class business. We take the time to develop personal relationships with each other. Over and above daily team lunches, we do frequent team outings and ad-hoc adventures.

We create and enable an environment for people to do their best work. To support this, we focus on a culture of autonomy, transparency and trust. As a startup, we care _a lot _about innovation, and believe in an iterative way of working to drive innovation forward. We encourage each other and foster a working culture of sharing early versions of our work and implementing feedback fast.

**Why join us?***:
We have ambitious goals. Our mission is to power innovators in insurance, globally, and we’re well on our way there. You’ll join at a very exciting part of the journey, and your contribution over the next few years will directly and visibly impact Root’s global success.

Our team is incredibly friendly and collaborative. If you care about solving challenging problems with people you enjoy being around, this is the place for you.

**_

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