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Join Our Team: Legal Professional (Family and Estates Department) at LAW FOR ALL – Cape Town

At LAW FOR ALL, we're focused on making legal services accessible to all South African's. We're hiring a Legal Professional for our Family and Estates department in Cape Town who can use the law to help our policyholders make informed decisions and solve their legal challenges. In this role, you'll give legal advice, mediate disputes, negotiate on behalf of clients, and draft important legal documents. You'll be part of a talented team that works together in a supportive, collaborative environment.

Salary and Benefits:

• R240,000 per annum, depending on experience and qualifications.
• Discovery Health Medical Aid
• Retirement Annuity Contribution
• Healthy Company Benefits

What You'll Be Doing:

• Talking with clients to understand their needs and providing quick, clear legal and product advice.
• Helping mediate disputes, working towards settlements and preparing documents
• Attending to family and estate files
• Drafting legal documents and correspondence tailored to the needs of each client.
• Drafting of letters and contracts such as warning letters, referrals, letters of demand, lease agreements and any other letters as required;
• Keeping detailed and organized case file notes, with regular updates to make sure everything is clear and accurate.
• Updating clients on their cases, so they always know what's happening.
• Explaining legal issues in a way that's easy to understand and recording them properly on case files.
• Reviewing cases and offering clear legal and merit opinions to help policyholders make informed decisions.
• Following the company's procedures and policies to maintain high standards in all your work.

Qualifications:

• An LLB degree
• Admitted as an attorney or advocate
• At least 2+ years post admission experience in Family and Estates related disputes
• Must demonstrate proficiency in two official African languages, of which Sotho /Tswana should be one

Key Competencies:

• Strong legal knowledge and understanding of legal principles
• Ability to communicate effectively in two official languages of which Sotho /Tswana should be one
• Self-driven and able to lead when needed.
• Clear communicator who works well with others.
• Friendly and easy to get along with.
• Good at working with the team to meet goals.
• Able to plan and think ahead with effective time management skills
• Strong problem-solving and critical thinking skills.
• Can spot risks and take steps to avoid them.
• Professional and approachable.
• Makes ethical decisions that support both clients and the company.

Why LAW FOR ALL?

• Join an award-winning team recognized as one of South Africa's top employers.
• Be part of an agile, mission-driven environment that offers opportunities for professional growth and development.

Benefit from the flexibility of a hybrid working model, with offices in Cape Town.

This position is available for our Cape Town office

If you're ready to advance your legal career while helping make legal services accessible for all South African's, we'd love to hear from you

Join Our Team: Legal Professional (Civil Department) at LAW FOR ALL - Pretoria

At LAW FOR ALL, we're focused on making legal services accessible to all South African's. We're hiring a Legal Professional for our Civil department in Cape Town who can use the law to help our policyholders make informed decisions and solve their legal challenges. In this role, you'll give legal advice, mediate disputes, negotiate on behalf of clients, and draft important legal documents. You'll be part of a talented team that works together in a supportive, collaborative environment.

Salary and Benefits:

• R240,000 per annum, depending on experience and qualifications.
• Discovery Health Medical Aid
• Retirement Annuity Contribution
• Healthy Company Benefits

What You'll Be Doing:

• Talking with clients to understand their needs and providing quick, clear legal and product advice.
• Helping mediate disputes, working towards settlements and preparing documents
• Attending to civil files such as consumer protection, claims by clients, contractual and debt related disputes;
• Drafting legal documents and correspondence tailored to the needs of each client.
• Drafting of letters and contracts such as warning letters, referrals, letters of demand, lease agreements and any other letters as required;
• Keeping detailed and organized case file notes, with regular updates to make sure everything is clear and accurate.
• Updating clients on their cases, so they always know what's happening.
• Explaining legal issues in a way that's easy to understand and recording them properly on case files.
• Reviewing cases and offering clear legal and merit opinions to help policyholders make informed decisions.
• Following the company's procedures and policies to maintain high standards in all your work.

Qualifications:

• An LLB degree
• Admitted as an attorney or advocate
• At least 2+ years post admission experience in Civil law related disputes

Must demonstrate proficiency in two official African languages,

Key Competencies:

• Strong legal knowledge and understanding of legal principles
• Ability to communicate effectively in two official languages of which Afrikaans should be one
• Self-driven and able to lead when needed.
• Clear communicator who works well with others.
• Friendly and easy to get along with.
• Good at working with the team to meet goals.
• Able to plan and think ahead with effective time management skills
• Strong problem-solving and critical thinking skills.
• Can spot risks and take steps to avoid them.
• Professional and approachable.
• Makes ethical decisions that support both clients and the company.

Why LAW FOR ALL?

• Join an award-winning team recognized as one of South Africa's top employers.
• Be part of an agile, mission-driven environment that offers opportunities for professional growth and development.
• Benefit from the flexibility of a hybrid working model, with offices in Cape Town.

This position is available for our Cape Town office

If you're ready to advance your legal career while helping make legal services accessible for all South African's, we'd love to hear from you

Industry

• Legal Services

We're looking for a driven Legal Professional in our Pretoria Office who will be responsible for rendering professional legal advice to Law for All policy holders. The successful candidate will act on behalf of Law for All policy holders by way of informal mediation and negotiations; This includes attending to the drafting of letters and other legal documents, also conducting consultations with policy holders with the intention of ensuring that their matters are resolved amicably.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

LLB degree, admitted as an attorney or advocate is advantageous,

Ability to speak, write and understand two official African Languages,

2+ years' post articles Civil experience in a Legal Environment.

Must possess qualities such as honesty and integrity,

Must be fully computer-literate and have good communication and administration skills,

Excellent team player,

Able to work without supervision;

Must be able to take initiative and innovative in their approach to their work,

Able to collaborate with other team members and departments ,

Strong drafting skills;

High level legal knowledge,

Positive mindset and motivated individual,

Also possess the attributes as set out under the heading skills, ability and knowledge.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

(Duties, as set out below, is not limited to same, any reasonable request made by LAW for ALL or demands that the office might require will be the responsibility of the Legal Professional to comply with and/or attend to)

Responsible for taking down comprehensive and clear instructions from policy holders during personal consultations or telephonically, or by receipt of written instructions by letter, email or fax;

Supply immediate basic legal and product advice once the instruction has been received from the policy holder;

Attendance to criminal, civil, family, labour and commercial files;

Drafting of new cases on Lawyerly ensuring to include all relevant dates and advise on prescription, time bars and/or dies dates where applicable;

Verification of the status of the policy before commencing with legal assistance;

The LAW FOR ALL process (advice, mediation and litigation) must be explained in detail to members as well as the exclusion procedure;

Attend to drafting of letters and contracts such as warning letters, OT7 referrals, letters of demand, lease agreements and any other letters as required;

Responding to correspondence and legal notices on behalf of policy holder such as summons, notice to vacate and other correspondence as per the departmental and organizational processes and procedures;

Making constructive attendances on files on each diary date

Keeping of comprehensive and complete legal case files with regular entries and notes as prescribed by the legal services manual, departmental how to guide and any other policy relevant to the department and/or organisation;

Supply regular progress reports and/or feedback to policy holders on their pending files. Feedback must be provided to policy holders at least twice a month or as often as the legal matter dictates;

Verbal and written interpretation of the law and legal matters and reflection thereof on the files in a comprehensive manner;

Providing policy holders with legal opinions, whether written or telephonically in a manner which is understandable to the ordinary person;

Research legal relevant topics to remain aware of all current laws and legal developments.

Follow instructions left by management in file notes or via e-mail or verbal instruction;

Maintaining effective relationships with legal, administration and support staff.

Drafting of letters, representations and appeals;

Mediate on matters for the purposes of settlement agreements and debt repayments and/or drafting of basic legal contracts and wills;

Assessing merits of legal cases for the purposes of legal advice to policy holders and/or for ascertaining whether member qualifies for litigation cover (product knowledge);

Managing litigation claims in cooperation with the Head of Department and in accordance with the guidelines provided by the Legal Services Manual and Departmental How To Guide;

Organising referrals/instructions to accredited panel attorneys;

Administration and payment of panel attorney invoices and correspondence;

Follow rejection/exclusion procedures in accordance with the legal professional guidebook and as required by law;

Proper administration of file load of pending case files; and diarising system;

Attending to call backs to clients, received via tasks on Lawyerly, by email or any other method;

Adherence to all departmental and Law for all processes, procedures and policies;

WHAT WE OFFER

• An Agile Team

Competitive (with benefits)

Professional Development

• A flexible schedule accommodating both office and remote work

Cool Team

LIPCO - LAW FOR ALL is an award-winning company, listed as one of the Top 20 places in South Africa by the Top Employers Institute.

Submit your CV and copy of your qualifications today

If you haven't received any communication from us within two weeks following the deadline, please be advised that your application has not been successful.

Join Our Team: Legal Professional (Civil Department) at LAW FOR ALL - Cape Town and Pretoria

At LAW FOR ALL, we're focused on making legal services accessible to all South African's. We're hiring a Legal Professional for our Civil department in Cape Town and Pretoria who can use the law to help our policyholders make informed decisions and solve their legal challenges. In this role, you'll give legal advice, mediate disputes, negotiate on behalf of clients, and draft important legal documents. You'll be part of a talented team that works together in a supportive, collaborative environment.

Salary and Benefits:

• R240,000 per annum, depending on experience and qualifications.
• Discovery Health Medical Aid
• Retirement Annuity Contribution
• Healthy Company Benefits

What You'll Be Doing:

• Talking with clients to understand their needs and providing quick, clear legal and product advice.
• Helping mediate disputes, working towards settlements and preparing documents
• Attending to civil and/or Consumer Law files such as consumer protection, claims by clients, contractual and debt related disputes;
• Drafting legal documents and correspondence tailored to the needs of each client.
• Drafting of letters and contracts such as warning letters, referrals, letters of demand, lease agreements and any other letters as required;
• Keeping detailed and organized case file notes, with regular updates to make sure everything is clear and accurate.
• Updating clients on their cases, so they always know what's happening.
• Explaining legal issues in a way that's easy to understand and recording them properly on case files.
• Reviewing cases and offering clear legal and merit opinions to help policyholders make informed decisions.
• Following the company's procedures and policies to maintain high standards in all your work.

Qualifications:

• An LLB degree
• Admitted as an attorney or advocate
• At least 2+ years post admission experience in Civil and/or Consumer Law related disputes
• Must demonstrate proficiency in two official African languages, of which Afrikaans should be one

Key Competencies:

• Strong legal knowledge and understanding of legal principles
• Ability to communicate effectively in two official languages of which Afrikaans should be one
• Self-driven and able to lead when needed.
• Clear communicator who works well with others.
• Friendly and easy to get along with.
• Good at working with the team to meet goals.
• Able to plan and think ahead with effective time management skills
• Strong problem-solving and critical thinking skills.
• Can spot risks and take steps to avoid them.
• Professional and approachable.
• Makes ethical decisions that support both clients and the company.

Why LAW FOR ALL?

• Join an award-winning team recognized as one of South Africa's top employers.
• Be part of an agile, mission-driven environment that offers opportunities for professional growth and development.

Benefit from the flexibility of a hybrid working model, with offices in Cape Town / Pretoria.

This position is available for our Cape Town and Pretoria office

If you're ready to advance your legal career while helping make legal services accessible for all South African's, we'd love to hear from you

Industry

• Legal Services

Position Summary

1. Provide an optimum solution through a contract review and legal counsel.
2. Minimize the company's legal risks by responding to major disputes.

Role and Responsibilities

Contracts:

• Daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, annual reporting.
• Drafting and Review of template agreements
• Review and drafting of AO and SSA e-commerce contracts, sales and supply contracts, service level agreements, logistics and distribution contracts, third party and vendor contracts.
• Specialised Project work in relation to contract compliance and e-commerce
• Management of legal accounts/invoices and processing of payments
• Update and maintain contract review and completion statistics for management presentations
• Prepare and present presentations for Senior Management and other internal stakeholders (where required)
• Liaising with and the oversight of external attorneys in relation to Contracts.
• Draft, review and negotiate Contracts across all departments
• Management, reporting and utilisation of Electronic Contracts Management System ("ECMS")
• Attend weekly and monthly meetings with relevant departments and stakeholders
• Understanding business requirements and effectively mitigating risk

Disputes:

• Daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, annual reporting.
• Provide support and assist with management of both SSA and AO disputes
• Assistance with the management of Government Investigations
• Review and management of customer complaints
• Liaising with and the oversight of external attorneys in relation to disputes.
• Management of external attorneys' invoices and billing
• Reporting and management of Disputes on Samsung internal Disputes and Government Investigations System (GLASS)

Other

• Attend to legal queries from both SSA, SSAP and AO Business units
• Provide support to both the Compliance Lead and Governance Lead in relation to both SSA and AO compliance, governance and regulatory issues
• Must be able to travel locally and to African countries when required.
• Conduct internal research and prepare legal opinions for business
• Management of legal accounts/invoices and processing of payments
• Both legal and non-legal administrative work

Skills and Qualifications

Qualifications:

• LLB Law degree.
• Admission as an attorney or Advocate

Experience:

• At least 7 years post-admission experience as a practicing attorney or in a legal advisory capacity dealing with legal commercial issues.
• At least 4 years' experience as an in-housel legal advisor
• Highly beneficial if the candidate has cross boarder experience in both contracting and disputes

PM Jacobs Group specialises in multiple sectors from Legal-; Accounting-; Tax-; Financial Planning-; Projects-; International-; Global Business Strategies- to Renewable Energy services. 

The PM Jacobs Legal Department would like to expand and invest in an ambitious, agile Paralegal/ Legal Assistant with 3+ Years experience in the Legal field; who is fluently Afrikaans speaking; who is committed to self-development; have a continuous learning mind-set with academic proficiency; demonstrate leadership qualities with an analytical mind-set; strong business acumen and organization skills; and your values & ethics are driven by your sense of integrity and honesty.

Individuals who share our values & passion will be part of a unique environment providing clients with the ultimate business solution.

Please note that your daily responsibilities will not be limited to Legal responsibilities and will include assisting with administration, finance etc.

Requirements for application:

• Bachelor’s degree in paralegal studies
• 3 + Years Experience in the Legal field
• Fluently Afrikaans speaking/ reading and writing skills is a definite need
• Experience in a client services environment
• Drafting Skills
• Administration and Finance experience
• This role requires a candidate who is ambitious regarding a career in the legal industry
• Computer Literate
• Certified Identity Document
• Curriculum Vitae with references
• Certified Copies of Qualification/s (Grade 12 certificate & Tertiary Qualification)
• Certified Copies of your Academic record/s
• Excellent Afrikaans/ English communication, reading and writing skills
• Strong Networking and Social Skills; and
• Clear Credit & Criminal check.

Advantages: 

• Additional Qualifications would be an advantage.

Procedure:

• Submit required documents
• Short listed candidates will be contacted, and suitable Interview dates will be provided accordingly.

PM Jacobs Group was established by Mr. Jacobs (Snr) in 2002, with over 30 years’ experience in Property Law and High Court Litigation.

Empowering Africa's tomorrow, together…one story at a time.

With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.

Job Summary

Responsible for identifying and managing legal risk for the South African and African business. Key point of contact on a day-to-day basis for the business team, and responsible for providing pro-active legal advice, support and risk management.

Job Description

Accountability: Negotiate, draft and review Agreements

• Ensure agreements are drafted as quickly and efficiently as possible while protecting the Bank and mitigating risks.
• Attend to queries as quickly as possible.
• Successful conclusion of agreements, taken into account how certain clauses would impact the Bank' strategy.
• Consider, comment, negotiate and give advice on commercial agreements and schedules.
• Assist in structuring, negotiating and drafting commercial agreements and schedules relating to standard agreements, technology agreements and related transactions.
• Address all probable risks by seeing to it that they are sufficiently mitigated in the agreements drafted.
• Conduct legal due diligences on transactions.

Accountability: Advisory and opinions

• Delivering excellent and effective legal advice and service to stakeholders, applying strategic thinking with advice given.
• Ensure technical correctness of agreements drafted by ensuring that the latest legal requirements have been included in the agreement.
• Staying up to date with all relevant laws, case law and regulatory directives and guidance, this is done by doing regular research on legal developments and attending training interventions.
• Ensure that all risks are sufficiently addressed in agreements entered by the Bank, understanding the requirements of business, legal issues and possible business risks and incorporating clauses in the agreements to address such risks and requirements.
• At all times ensure that sufficient legal knowledge has been obtained and updated with latest legal developments to ensure that they are correctly reflected in the agreements drafted.

Accountability: Management of Legal Risks

• Proactive updating of templates and identification of clauses for continuous improvement.
• Ensure effective and appropriate verbal and written communication of the legal policies to internal clients.
• Proactive monitoring of compliance of the legal risk control framework.
• Adhere to Absa frameworks, policies and procedures applicable to the role, demonstrating sound judgement and responsible risk management and when required highlight breaches and request dispensations & waivers on a timely basis. Report all risk events/incidents/issues immediately upon discovery and escalate significant events/incidents/issues using the defined process for the business area.
• Understand why risk events/incidents/issues happened and identify how to prevent them in future - focusing on fixing root causes and taking ownership of identified actions.
• Actively raise the profile of the legal function and improve on Legal Key Risks
• Manage and create awareness by embedding legal policies and control requirements in all areas of the business
• Provide appropriate challenge and equally be robust in the face of challenges
• Build strong risk partnerships with colleagues in other functions (especially key control areas)
• Fully understand the role of legal in AGL and how it interacts with other functions and the business.
• Identify and escalate non legal and legal risk issues
• Contributes to the creation of policies and controls

Accountability: Stakeholder Management

• Build relationships with key senior stakeholders within the legal and business functions across the Bank and become a trusted advisor.
• Timeous, appropriate and collegiate engagement and collaboration with Legal colleagues from other teams, particularly where matters are business facing or are related to another area of expertise (e.g. employment law).
• Timeous and proactive escalation of issues to manager (technical, stakeholder related and where matters have been open for more than 3 months), blocking out contract review time with manager sufficiently in advance so as to avoid urgency and delays.
• Timeous and accurate matters reporting, providing adequate detail and drafted in a manner that can be easily copied into a General Counsel report.
• Explain legal concepts, clauses in agreements and risks to internal clients.
• Provide training that is beneficial / informative to internal clients by way of presentations, such as training on new legislation or recent legal precedents.
• Manage external counsel were applicable.
• Familiarization with the Bank' internal governance.
• Contribute to industry wide initiative and develop a good network amongst peer group externally.
• Proactively collaborate across different teams and geographies within Legal to break down silos.

Accountability: General

• Proactive stakeholder management and raising the profile of the team.
• Identify instances where contract automation can be implemented to ensure efficiency.
• Deal leadership – ability and experience in leading large and complex deals.
• Develop and maintain a network with senior stakeholders by encouraging informal interactions and catch-up sessions to achieve good visibility and raise the profile of the team.
• Perform duties in line with the Absa values and uphold Absa' values in transacting with stakeholders, customers and colleagues.
• Provide more than is required from stakeholders to ensure efficiency and excellence.
• Be an active and accountable member of the team by participating in initiatives and workstreams across the Legal function.
• Timeous conclusion of all mandatory training.
• Coach and mentor junior team members.
• Provide objective and constructive feedback and openly share knowledge and expertise.
• Contribute to the development and implementation of the team objectives and strategy.
• Make recommendations for and implement change.
• Works independent with minimal supervision and demonstrates the ability to supervise where appropriate.
• Ability to plan and manage projects and matters through to completion including around resourcing.
• Anticipates Market and Legal Developments and impact on Business

Professional/Technical experience:

• At least 7years' PQE in the field of commercial law
• Ability to advise at a senior business level and establish credibility with senior stakeholders
• Experience in drafting and negotiating agreements is preferred

Academic and Professional qualifications:

• Appropriate Law degree
• Admitted attorney in RSA
• Critical: Strong Commercial Law, Commercial Asset Finance, Vehicle/Fleet Management, Rental Finance
• Degree from a leading educational institution with good academic results

Personal attributes:

• Ability to work autonomously and as part of a team
• Very strong interpersonal skills
• Communication skills
• Well organized and efficient
• Excellent negotiating and influencing skills
• Integrity and reliability
• Excellent attention to detail
• Commercial acumen
• Business awareness, prioritization of risk and strong commercial focus.
• Ability to manage a large (and often fluid) workload with effective prioritization as well as deliver under pressure and at speed

Education

Bachelor Honours Degree: Law, Military Science and Security (Required)

Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank.

Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised

Empowering Africa's tomorrow, together…one story at a time.
With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.

Job Summary
Responsible for identifying and managing legal risk for the South African and African business. Key point of contact on a day-to-day basis for the business team, and responsible for providing pro-active legal advice, support and risk management.

Job Description
Accountability: Negotiate, draft and review Agreements

• Ensure agreements are drafted as quickly and efficiently as possible while protecting the Bank and mitigating risks.
• Attend to queries as quickly as possible.
• Successful conclusion of agreements, taken into account how certain clauses would impact the Bank' strategy.
• Consider, comment, negotiate and give advice on commercial agreements and schedules.
• Assist in structuring, negotiating and drafting commercial agreements and schedules relating to standard agreements, technology agreements and related transactions.
• Address all probable risks by seeing to it that they are sufficiently mitigated in the agreements drafted.
• Conduct legal due diligences on transactions.

Accountability: Advisory and opinions

• Delivering excellent and effective legal advice and service to stakeholders, applying strategic thinking with advice given.
• Ensure technical correctness of agreements drafted by ensuring that the latest legal requirements have been included in the agreement.
• Staying up to date with all relevant laws, case law and regulatory directives and guidance, this is done by doing regular research on legal developments and attending training interventions.
• Ensure that all risks are sufficiently addressed in agreements entered by the Bank, understanding the requirements of business, legal issues and possible business risks and incorporating clauses in the agreements to address such risks and requirements.
• At all times ensure that sufficient legal knowledge has been obtained and updated with latest legal developments to ensure that they are correctly reflected in the agreements drafted.

Accountability: Management of Legal Risks

• Proactive updating of templates and identification of clauses for continuous improvement.
• Ensure effective and appropriate verbal and written communication of the legal policies to internal clients.
• Proactive monitoring of compliance of the legal risk control framework.
• Adhere to Absa frameworks, policies and procedures applicable to the role, demonstrating sound judgement and responsible risk management and when required highlight breaches and request dispensations & waivers on a timely basis. Report all risk events/incidents/issues immediately upon discovery and escalate significant events/incidents/issues using the defined process for the business area.
• Understand why risk events/incidents/issues happened and identify how to prevent them in future - focusing on fixing root causes and taking ownership of identified actions.
• Actively raise the profile of the legal function and improve on Legal Key Risks
• Manage and create awareness by embedding legal policies and control requirements in all areas of the business
• Provide appropriate challenge and equally be robust in the face of challenges
• Build strong risk partnerships with colleagues in other functions (especially key control areas)
• Fully understand the role of legal in AGL and how it interacts with other functions and the business.
• Identify and escalate non legal and legal risk issues
• Contributes to the creation of policies and controls

Accountability: Stakeholder Management

• Build relationships with key senior stakeholders within the legal and business functions across the Bank and become a trusted advisor.
• Timeous, appropriate and collegiate engagement and collaboration with Legal colleagues from other teams, particularly where matters are business facing or are related to another area of expertise (e.g. employment law).
• Timeous and proactive escalation of issues to manager (technical, stakeholder related and where matters have been open for more than 3 months), blocking out contract review time with manager sufficiently in advance so as to avoid urgency and delays.
• Timeous and accurate matters reporting, providing adequate detail and drafted in a manner that can be easily copied into a General Counsel report.
• Explain legal concepts, clauses in agreements and risks to internal clients.
• Provide training that is beneficial / informative to internal clients by way of presentations, such as training on new legislation or recent legal precedents.
• Manage external counsel were applicable.
• Familiarization with the Bank' internal governance.
• Contribute to industry wide initiative and develop a good network amongst peer group externally.
• Proactively collaborate across different teams and geographies within Legal to break down silos.

Accountability: General

• Proactive stakeholder management and raising the profile of the team.
• Identify instances where contract automation can be implemented to ensure efficiency.
• Deal leadership – ability and experience in leading large and complex deals.
• Develop and maintain a network with senior stakeholders by encouraging informal interactions and catch-up sessions to achieve good visibility and raise the profile of the team.
• Perform duties in line with the Absa values and uphold Absa' values in transacting with stakeholders, customers and colleagues.
• Provide more than is required from stakeholders to ensure efficiency and excellence.
• Be an active and accountable member of the team by participating in initiatives and workstreams across the Legal function.
• Timeous conclusion of all mandatory training.
• Coach and mentor junior team members.
• Provide objective and constructive feedback and openly share knowledge and expertise.
• Contribute to the development and implementation of the team objectives and strategy.
• Make recommendations for and implement change.
• Works independent with minimal supervision and demonstrates the ability to supervise where appropriate.
• Ability to plan and manage projects and matters through to completion including around resourcing.
• Anticipates Market and Legal Developments and impact on Business

Professional/Technical experience:

• At least 7years' PQE in the field of commercial law
• Ability to advise at a senior business level and establish credibility with senior stakeholders
• Experience in drafting and negotiating agreements is preferred

Academic and Professional qualifications:

• Appropriate Law degree
• Admitted attorney in RSA
• Critical: Strong Commercial Law, Commercial Asset Finance, Vehicle/Fleet Management, Rental Finance
• Degree from a leading educational institution with good academic results

Personal attributes:

• Ability to work autonomously and as part of a team
• Very strong interpersonal skills
• Communication skills
• Well organized and efficient
• Excellent negotiating and influencing skills
• Integrity and reliability
• Excellent attention to detail
• Commercial acumen
• Business awareness, prioritization of risk and strong commercial focus.
• Ability to manage a large (and often fluid) workload with effective prioritization as well as deliver under pressure and at speed

Education
Bachelor Honours Degree: Law, Military Science and Security (Required)

Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank.
Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised

Overview

Legal Director – South Africa, AMEA Power. Location: South Africa. Position posted: .

Legal Director – South Africa. Reporting to: Head of Legal. Location: South Africa. The Legal Director will support AMEA Power’s growing portfolio across project development, construction, and financing, particularly in emerging markets across Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. The Legal Director will work closely with the business development, construction, and finance teams, providing legal leadership on complex renewable energy projects from inception through to operation.

• Provide end-to-end legal support on renewable energy and energy transition projects (solar, wind, battery storage, green hydrogen, etc.).
• Advise on project structuring, risk allocation, and compliance across multiple jurisdictions.
• Draft, negotiate, and advise on a wide range of project-related agreements, including Power Purchase Agreements, Engineering, Procurement & Construction Contracts and Operation & Maintenance Agreements. Experience of finance documents is also advantageous.
• Draft, negotiate and advise on preliminary project documentation including Joint Development Agreements, Confidentiality Agreements, Powers of Attorney and other ancillary documents including legal letters and notices.
• Draft and negotiate general contractual documentation including the provision of legal advice on the same including with respect to potential liabilities / exposures, warranties, indemnities, and other key terms and conditions.
• Draft and review board, shareholder resolutions and assist in corporate organization and restructurings.
• Support project finance transactions, including liaising with lenders, DFIs, and co-developers.
• Navigate legal complexities in emerging markets, with an ability to tailor risk analysis and contractual structures accordingly.
• Work with local counsel and stakeholders across legal, regulatory, environmental, and permitting matters.
• Support the compliance function by helping to develop and ensure that a good system of corporate governance is in place and adhered to (e.g. contract approvals procedure, authority/signing matrix, and internal policies and procedures are up-to-date, and staff receive appropriate trainings with regards to the same).
• Put in place standard contract templates and ensure staff know how to use them.
• Develop and maintain a precedent database of documentation.
• Conduct legal research and educate and advise business units as and when required.
• Make recommendations with regards to seeking external legal advice, draft and negotiate terms of legal engagement (scope and fees), liaise with external counsel as and when required.

• Minimum 8 years’ relevant experience in private practice and/or in-house (sector, industry, region).
• In-house legal experience.
• Bachelor’s degree minimum.
• Legal practical training course/JD/LLB.
• Trained at top tier international law firm (or equivalent legal department).
• Admitted to practice law in a primary legal jurisdiction (e.g. UK, Australia, USA).

• MS Office Suite.
• Written and oral communication.

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