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Lecturer: Law (Public Law)
Posted 19 days ago
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Direct Reporting Line:
Head of Law
Varsity College is an educational brand of The Independent Institute of Education (The IIE). The IIE enjoys the reputation of being at the forefront of private higher education in South Africa, and is registered with the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) to provide higher education qualifications accredited by the Council on Higher Education (CHE).
The IIE's Varsity College, Waterfall Campus, has a vacancy for a Lecturer: Law (Public Law).
Duties and Responsibilities:
Lecturing
- Lecture on programmes (must lecture on an IIE qualification) across various modes of delivery where relevant
- Marking of assessments and feedback to students in subjects lectured. May be required to internally moderate assessment scripts that fall within their subject fields, where necessary across IIE sites of delivery
Lecturer Development and Support
- Assist in lecturer development and support processes and procedures. This may include conducting peer reviews, facilitating workshops and one-on-one consultations
Student Development & Support
- Championing/leading and managing academic development and support for a specific programme and its students
- Tracking student success and implementing support interventions where required
Research & Scholarship
- The incumbent is required to promote a culture of scholarship within their practice, discipline and campus/team and is also required to contribute towards The IIE’s Varsity College achieving its annual research output targets
Competencies Required:
- Superior communication (written and verbal) and organisational skills
- Demonstrated ability to manage work and self proactively
- Able to demonstrate a proven track record of effective teaching in subject area based on a reflective practice
- Able to demonstrate the ability to manage relationships with managers and staff effectively in terms of motivation, quality and performance
- Passion for Customer Service
- Experience in the use of technology to enhance learning is an added advantage
- Must display team work skills
- Good interpersonal skills
- Strong work ethic and conduct themselves with honesty and integrity
Minimum Education Requirements:
- Minimum of aLLM
- Preferably an admitted attorney/advocate or in possession of any relevant legal professional title
- Minimum of 2 to 3 years of lecturing experience (on law qualifications)
- Minimum of 3 years industry experience
- Competitive salary commensurate with experience.
- Lifelong learning opportunities through LinkedIn Learning subscriptions.
- Staff and family discounts on educational programs within our brand portfolio.
- Incentive bonus structure based on performance and achievement of goals.
- Birthday vouchers to celebrate your special day.
- Competitive annual leave allowance for well-deserved time off and rejuvenation.
- Due to the high volume of CVs received, please note that personal contact with all applicants may not be feasible. Only candidates whose qualifications and skills closely align with the position requirements will be contacted for interviews
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The IIE Varsity College, IIE Vega and IIE MSA arean Equal Opportunity Employer. However, preference may be given to previously underrepresented groups in accordance with the South African Employment Equity Act. The company reserves the right to close or place the vacancy on hold at any time, without prior notice.
#J-18808-LjbffrSMI 16489 - Attorney (Family Law & Estate Law) – Law Firm: West Rand
Posted 21 days ago
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A reputable law firm located in the West Rand.
Job Description
Our client is seeking a skilled and compassionate Attorney to join their boutique law firm, focusing on Family Law and Estate Law. The ideal candidate will have a solid background in both practice areas, excellent interpersonal skills and a strong commitment to delivering personalised legal services to the firms clients. They should also be someone who can hit the ground running and is motivated to build a long-term career in legal practice.
Key Responsibilities will include:
Family Law- Representing clients in divorce, child custody, maintenance and/or domestic violence matters
- Drafting legal documents, including parenting plans, settlement agreements and/or protection orders
- Attending court hearings, mediations and/or settlement conferences
- Advising clients on legal rights, obligations and/or potential outcomes
- Negotiating and mediating family disputes with sensitivity and professionalism
- Consulting with clients to understand estate planning needs
- Drafting wills, trusts, powers of attorney and/or healthcare directives
- Advising on tax implications and/or asset protection strategies
- Assisting with estate administration and probate proceedings
- Collaborating with financial advisors and accountants to ensure holistic planning
Qualifications
- LLB degree and admission as an Attorney in South Africa
Skills
The successful candidate will have:
- 3+ years of experience in family and/or estate law
- Strong drafting, negotiation and litigation skills
- Ability to manage emotionally sensitive cases with discretion
- Excellent communication and client relationship skills
- Proficiency in legal research and case management software
- Experience working in a boutique or client-focused firm
- Mediation or collaborative law training
- Familiarity with South African estate and family law statutes
- Ability to work independently and as part of a small team
Benefits
- Professional development support.
Labour Law Consultant
Posted 8 days ago
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We currently have an exciting position available for a Labour Law Consultant to be based at our East London branch.
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Retaining all clients and servicing clients regarding all IR issues.
- Contacting clients as per schedule.
Typical Labour Law issues can include:
- Chairing disciplinary inquiries
- Drafting judgments for clients
- Assisting with issuing warnings to ensure compliance
- Drafting and implementing policies
More complex issues include:
- Wage negotiations
- Strike management
- Retrenchments
Package & Remuneration:
Salary: R17 850 CTC
Benefits: Cell phone, internet, laptop, excellent career growth opportunities, and a great commission structure.
Join Labournet, a market leader in HR Management Services, for a rewarding and challenging career. If you are committed to high standards and want to advance your career, Labournet is the place for you!
Qualifications:
You will need a customer-first mindset and the following skills:
- 3 years B. Degree or equivalent in HR / IR / LLB or related field
- Over 1 year experience in Industrial Relations
- Eagerness to learn labour law
- Excellent communication skills (written and verbal)
- Ability to work effectively under pressure in a fast-paced environment
- Valid driver’s license and own vehicle
What We Offer:
- Attractive salary
- Work in a multicultural and diverse environment
- Work-life integration and hybrid work policy
- Support for professional training and career development
- Benefits such as Employee Assistance Programme, pension fund, and risk benefits
- Branding allowance
If Labournet does not respond within 30 days, consider your application unsuccessful for this role.
Our Culture and Values:
- Flexible working environment focusing on output
- Managerial commitment to employee growth (servant leadership)
- Emphasis on work-life integration rather than balance
- Fostering purpose and success in work
Our Working Approach:
Our hybrid working model allows flexibility, combining virtual and physical work environments to enhance productivity and personal balance.
Why Join Labournet?
Be part of a mission to ensure client compliance through innovative, customer-centric services and solutions. Contribute to HR best practices and help shape the future of HR compliance across South Africa.
About Us:
Your Strategic Partner in Human Resource Solutions
Our team of dedicated consultants is passionate about translating workplace issues into accessible, flexible, and affordable HR solutions that align with your business goals. We aim to be an extension of your HR department, ensuring compliance and allowing you to focus on core activities.
What We Do:
We provide leading compliance solutions across South Africa, implementing best practices within our partner businesses.
Remote Work: Employment Type: Full-time
Key Skills:
Dewatering, Business Objects, Customer Care Service, Export Sales, Flooring, ACCA
Experience: 1+ years
Vacancy: 1
#J-18808-LjbffrATTORNEY (FAMILY LAW)
Posted 6 days ago
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- LLB Degree
- Admitted Attorney of the High Court of South Africa
- Minimum of 5 years' experience in Family Law
- Excellent drafting, negotiation, and litigation skills
- Strong interpersonal and communication abilities
- Ability to manage high-pressure situations and sensitive cases
- Managing a caseload of family law matters, including divorces, maintenance, custody, and protection orders
- Drafting and reviewing legal documents, pleadings, and agreements
- Representing clients in court and during mediation or settlement negotiations
- Providing professional legal advice and guidance to clients
- Ensuring compliance with all relevant legal and ethical standards
Consultant: Danielle Fortuin - Dante Personnel Johannesburg
LABOUR LAW ATTORNEY
Posted 19 days ago
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- LLB and admission as an attorney of the High Court of South Africa
- 4-5 years' post-admission experience in Labour, Commercial Law/Corporate Law and Public Governance Matters
- Experience working with Labour Disputes. Disciplinary Hearings, CCMA/Bargaining Council and Labour Court matters
- Experience in Drafting and Reviewing Commercial Contracts, Corporate Governance Documents
- Right of Appearance in the High Court
- In good standing with the LPC
Consultant: Elaine Braysher - Dante Personnel Pretoria Faerie Glen
Senior Labour Law Consultant
Posted 5 days ago
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We currently have an exciting position available for a Senior Labour Law Consultant to be based at our Pretoria branch office.
You are responsible for, including but not limited to:
- Retaining all clients as well as servicing clients in terms of all IR issues.
- Providing training to all clients as per LabourNet standards.
- Visiting all clients once per month.
- Contacting all clients as per schedule.
These typical Labour Law issues can range from:
- Chairing disciplinary inquiries.
- Drafting judgments for clients.
- Assisting with issuing warnings to ensure compliance.
- Drafting and implementing policies.
And more complex issues like:
- Wage negotiations.
- Strike management.
- Retrenchments.
Package & Remuneration:
Benefits: Cell phone, internet, laptop, pension fund, excellent career growth, and a great commission structure.
Embark on an exciting, rewarding, and challenging career move and join LabourNet, a market leader in HR Management Services. If you enjoy delivering work that meets or exceeds high standards and want to fast-track your career, LabourNet is where you want to be!
Qualifications:
You’ll need a customer-first mindset and the following skills to succeed in this role:
- 3 years B. Degree or equivalent in HR / IR / LLB or related field.
- 2+ years of experience in labour law (consultations on retrenchments, strikes, chairing disciplinary hearings, dispute resolution, etc.).
- All LAPS completed.
- Eagerness to learn the ins and outs of labour law.
- Excellent communication skills (written and verbal).
- Ability to function effectively within a pressurized and fast-paced environment.
- Valid driver’s license and own vehicle are essential.
What we offer:
- Attractive salary.
- Work in a multicultural and diverse environment.
- Work-Life Integration.
- Hybrid Work Policy.
- Support for professional training and career development opportunities.
- Benefits such as Employee Assistance Programme, Pension fund, and risk benefits.
- Branding Allowance.
Remote Work: Employment Type: Full-time
Key Skills: HR Development, Delivery, Flooring, Irrigation, ACCA, Document Management
Experience: 2+ years
Vacancy: 1
#J-18808-LjbffrLaw Graduate - Intern - Durban
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Legal Advisor / Consultant Employment Law FTC - Randburg
Posted 11 days ago
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Our client is looking torecruit a Legal Advisor / Consultant with experience in Employment law and Litigation.
Responsibilities
- The successful candidate should have experience in Employment law – drafting pleadings including heads of argument and litigation.
- Provide expert legal advice on a range of labour law issues.
- Draft legal documents and manage case preparation for CCMA.
- Advise the business on employment disputes, including disciplinary matters, dismissals, and other related issues
- Draft and review employment contracts, policies, and procedures to ensure compliance with legal standards
- Represent the company in negotiations and hearings related to labour matters
- Appearances at CCMA, Labour Court and Councils in Johannesburg and Pretoria.
Desired Qualifications and Experience
- Admitted Attorney
- Minimum 1-2 years post admission experience
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We are seeking a commercially minded professional to join EY’s Global Law team as an Associate Director, Global Market Enablement. This role plays a critical part in driving revenue growth by supporting the development and execution of sales strategies for EY Law’s global solutions across priority markets, sectors, and accounts.
You will work closely with Global Solution Leads, helping shape their go-to-market approach, create actionable sales plans, and coordinate across EY’s broader ecosystem to ensure successful execution. This includes identifying opportunities to increase market visibility, strengthen account-level positioning, and improve pursuit readiness. The ideal candidate brings strong experience in sales planning, execution of sales strategy — and is comfortable proactively working across global teams to align commercial priorities, develop practical sales tools, and help convert strategic ambition into measurable growth.
Essential functions of the job:
The Global Law Market Enablement (ME) role is an Associate Director-ranked role. The main responsibilities of the role include:
- Partner with Global Solution Leads to develop sales strategies and plans for EY Law’s global solutions, aligned to our ‘All In’ shape of Law business targets.
- Establish standards for Global Law solutions sales enablement collateral – consistency, availability, quality.
- Foster relationships with global account, sector, and sub-service line teams to support execution of sales plans — helping global solution teams build internal connections and identify opportunities.
- Foster relationships with global solution teams to ensure continuous feedback into sales strategies and plans; drive collaborative global sales culture.
- Develop joint go-to-market approaches with other EY Service Lines/Sub-Service Lines to accelerate the positioning of EY Law’s global solutions on strategic opportunities and top accounts.
- Collaborate with Global Tax Brand, Marketing and Communications (BMC) to design, deploy and drive campaigns and programs that raise awareness and generate interest in our global solutions.
- Demonstrate for Global Solution Leads high impact sales culture and support them in establishing same with their solution teams.
Key experience requirements:
- Minimum 10 years of experience in professional services, preferably legal services, with at least 5 years in a commercial, sales enablement, or go-to-market leadership role.
- Demonstrated success in supporting and executing sales strategies that have driven measurable revenue growth, such as:
- Directly contributing to solution or offering growth of $10M+ annually
- Supporting market entry or expansion strategies that led to double-digit year-over-year growth
- Leading or co-developing go-to-market plans that increased solution adoption or sales pipeline by 25% or more.
- Proven track record of developing and scaling sales enablement materials across a global network, with clear metrics around usage, adoption, or impact on win rates.
- Experience coordinating across service lines and functions to drive joint sales motions, including at least three cross-functional campaigns or strategic pursuits valued at $5M+ total opportunity size.
- Demonstrated ability to translate commercial strategy into execution plans, with experience tracking sales performance against KPIs, such as:
- Pipeline growth
- Pursuit volume and conversion rates
- Campaign response or lead generation metrics.
- Success in working across at least 3 global regions or priority markets, with demonstrated cultural awareness and ability to manage complex stakeholder dynamics.
- Must be proactive and a self-starter capable of translating strategy into tactical execution.
- Comprehensive knowledge and understanding of EY’s organization, strategy and culture.
- Expertise in managing market growth and enablement activities.
- Able to effectively navigate EY’s matrix organization to access, inform and engage the right people at the right time.
- Good understanding of the EY Tax practice and SSLs including growth drivers, sectors and solutions.
- Demonstrates knowledge, skills and abilities concerning global business fundamentals, ethics and cross-cultural/geographical sensitivities.
- Strategic thinking; ability to connect, identify less obvious opportunities, create impact without explicit direction.
- Team player with strong leadership, people management and interpersonal/relationship skills aligned to the firm’s culture and values.
- Strong skills and prior experience with work across geographically dispersed virtual teams
- Highly seasoned project management skills and experience with the ability to prioritize and manage multiple strategic, complex projects and initiatives simultaneously. Must be well organized to drive initiatives forward across a varied set of stakeholders and deadlines.
- Proven ability to work closely with stakeholders and colleagues at all levels, including senior leaders, to influence and deliver desired outcomes. Exceptional written and verbal communication, listening, and interpretation skills enable effective presentation and consultation. Adept at collaborating with varied personalities and work styles, while maintaining professionalism and integrity, especially in time-sensitive initiatives.
- Excellent attention to detail with a proven track record in supporting executive teams in a high-performing environment and ability to collaborate/develop thought leadership content.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, as well as pragmatism to drive outcomes that are both financially sound and operationally feasible.
- Strong proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint with high technology skills.
- Responsible for coaching and developing other team members and ensuring the core team collaborate and work effectively together.
- Directing other team members to support with delivery of high standard materials.
- Responsible for executing the strategic direction and operational excellence of Law and Tax, acting as role model to others.
- University/Bachelor’s degree in Law/Tax/Commerce/Business Management or related field.
- Additional professional qualifications, such as PRINCE2 or PMP, are desirable.
- 8+ years of experience in a professional services firm or large global organization in an advisory role.
- Considerable experience of operating and influencing across multiple levels of an organization and working with global virtue teams/networks.
- Project management experience and excellent stakeholder management and communication skills with a track record in managing complex stakeholder programs.
- Good understanding of project governance and change management principles.
- Understanding of P&L and general firm financials.
Global role; will require flexibility to work across time zones. Limited travel might be required.
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#J-18808-LjbffrLegal Counsel
Posted 3 days ago
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Our client in the Shipping Industry is seeking a Legal Counsel in their Supply Chain division to join their team.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Draft, review, and negotiate a wide range of commercial agreements including supply, distribution, logistics, services and procurement.
- Advise on legal risks associated with the sourcing of goods and services, supplier onboarding,
- Support procurement and supply chain teams with legal guidance on vendor relationships, contract performance, and dispute resolution.
- Monitor and ensure compliance with applicable laws and regulations
- Provide legal advice during audits or investigations involving supply chain activities.
- Assist in the development of standardized templates and best practices for supply chain contracts and processes.
Minimum Requirements :
Skills
Should you meet the above criteria, we invite you to apply directly to the advertisement. Should you not hear back from us within 2 weeks of application, kindly consider your application as unsuccessful
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