Legal Associate

**ABOUT US**:
HyperionDev is the largest provider of software development education in Southern Africa, and one of the largest globally. Counted among the top education technology startups in EMEA with headquarters in Cape Town and London, we support learners from over 40 countries in changing into fulfilling tech careers. We are dedicated to closing the global tech skills gap and we achieve this by integrating tech education with human mentorship and expert code review, lowering the cost of accessing tech careers.

In 2017 we won first prize in Facebook's Innovation Challenge, with Facebook selecting us as the most socially impactful startup operating in Africa and financially backing us, alongside Google. In 2020-21, we closed one of the largest Series A fundraises in South Africa with nearly 1500 investors backing us in the biggest crowdfunding round in history for an Africa-linked startup.

We were originally launched from the University of Cambridge, and our leadership team consists of world-leading talent from companies such as Google, 2U, and GetSmarter. We are looking for team members who are ambitious, motivated and have a track record of over-achieving and exceeding targets.

Join us at a time when we are reinventing tech education and how technology can drive higher quality education at scale for markets that have some of the most underperforming tertiary institutions and schools globally.

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**ABOUT THE ROLE**:
As a full-time Legal Associate at HyperionDev you will be part of our PeopleOperations Department within the Wellness division, and work towards ensuring legally sound policies and practices at the company, representing the company and leading our preparedness for all legal matters, and provide general counsel to other departments.

In this role, you will be required to advise and work on a variety of legal matters arising from the company's dealings with individual and business customers, employees and contractors, and third parties. Your work will include drafting and reviewing in-house legal documents, drafting and reviewing third party contracts, agreements and leases, settlement of legal disputes, and research and preparation for ongoing and new cases of litigation at any court of law, tribunal or ombudsman.

To excel in this role, you should possess sound legal skills, experience in drafting and reviewing legal documents, a fine attention to detail, excellent time
- and task
- management skills and high levels of motivation and ambition.

**RESPONSIBILITIES**:
Your responsibilities will include but not be limited to:
Reviewing, drafting and managing contracts
- Reviewing and drafting contracts with employees and contractors
- Reviewing and drafting contracts and agreements with third parties including business clients, service providers and suppliers
- Negotiating and liaising with third parties to finalize contracts
- Ensuring that agreements are finalized, signed by relevant parties, and filed properly for internal reference
- Ensuring that contract end dates, notice periods, lock-in periods are tracked for renewing agreements.

Developing and reviewing policies and procedures
- Reviewing our legal terms and privacy and data protection policy for South African and international website users
- Reviewing the terms and conditions of use of our service by customers (e.g. refund policy, disenrollment policy, student undertaking)
- Reviewing internal workplace/human resources policies and procedures
- Ensuring that the business meets compliance norms with respect to relevant regulations or regulatory requirements
- Researching on legal matters and providing legal opinion
- Assisting in training department leads and employees on internal policies, processes and relevant regulations (e.g. labour law).

Support in litigation, legal representation and enforcing the company's rights
- Negotiating with third parties over disputes and settlement terms
- Supporting or representing the company at legal hearings including the CCMA
- Serving notice of breach, letters of demand, cease & desist letters through electronic means or via sheriffs, and seeing the matters through to conclusion.
- Research and preparation for ongoing and new cases of litigation at any court of law, tribunal or ombudsman.
- Preparation of documents for external counsel containing information pertinent to legal matters, including draft affidavits, pleadings, notices.

Legal Administration
- Drafting Board resolutions
- Ensuring that all legal correspondence, pleadings and notices are archived.
- Checking invoices from external attorneys against services rendered.

**REQUIREMENTS**:
**_Minimum_**:

- Should be an admitted attorney with an LLB degree
- 2+ years of post admission experience
- 2+ years labour law experience
- 2+ years of experience in drafting commercial law contracts
- Experience briefing counsel in litigation matters
- Meticulous attention to detail
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
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