Manager-Corporate Legal
Banqobi Consulting & Projects
Nơi làm việc
Johannesburg
Hình thức tuyển dụng
Toàn thời gian
Chi tiết công việc
Main Purpose: To provide the HDA with accurate and relevant legal, compliance management and advice to minimise legal risks. To ensure effective contractual arrangements and statutory compliance for the HDA
Key Performance Areas:
Strategic Management
• Review the HDA strategy from a legal perspective and ensure compliance
• Develop the HDA legal department with special emphasis on contractual, land legal and intergovernmental relations and legal compliance
• Develop implementation plans to ensure that the HDA legal strategy is implemented
• Monitor, manage and implement the plans to ensure that the legal strategy is achieved
Contract Management
_Drafting and/or reviewing of all contracts for the HDA including but not limited to:
• Commercial agreements
• Service provider contracts
• Land purchases and disposal contracts
• Land and building management contracts
• Service level agreements
• Project management agreements
• Memoranda of Understanding
• Intergovernmental relationship related contracts
• Terms and Conditions of Employment contracts
• MTOP's, IP etc.
_Managing and responsible for the reviewing of all contracts signed by the HDA
_Provide input and advice on appropriateness of all contracts and any other agreements and recommends any required amendments
_Guide the development of strategic contracting and contract management approaches
Develop process to support the HDA with contract management
_Recommend all contracts for signature or amendments to the authorized HDA signatories
Legal Management
• Review and interpret relevant documentation, statutes and information in order to determine the appropriate HDA position
• Provide legal advice to all HDA departments
• Review legal and contractual environment and identify potential risks
• Provide advice to manage legal risk against the HDA
• Review of all correspondence from CEO to any external stakeholder
• Provide advice on any disputes, litigation or arbitration related matters
• Represent HDA in litigation and dispute resolution processes and procedures as appropriate (internally and externally)
• Manage service providers providing legal advice or representation to HDA
• Represent the HDA in providing legal support and specialist advice to stakeholders and partners
• Participate in and contribute to the IGR legal forum
• Represent the HDA in internal and external litigation and dispute matters
• Be well versed in administrative and employment law and applicable legislation
Land Legal Management
• Ensure that effective legal agreements are in place for all land and properties under the HDA
• Review and assess all land agreements
Service Provider Management
• Establish legal panel for respective areas of expertise
• Procure legal service providers
• Instruct and manage legal service providers
• Monitor performance in line with briefs provided
• Manage all litigation undertaken by service providers
• Manage legal expenditure on service providers in line with the approved budgets
Statutory Compliance and Governance
• Ensure that the HDA regulations are relevant and updated to enable the HDA to carry out its mandate as per HDA act
• Review statutes and policies to ensure alignment to legislation and regulations
• Ensure HDA compliance with relevant legislation
• Review statutes and policies aligned to legislation and regulations
• Interpret statutes and potential implications for the HDA
• Identify legal obligations and risks for the HDA
• Develop and review policies and procedures to ensure legal compliance
• Ensure appropriate implementation by the HDA of appropriate legislation and regulations
• Ensure HDA complies with relevant legislation
• Management of all legal actives within the HDA
• Support the Management of all litigation within the HDA
People Management
• Select, assign, lead and manage people
• Set clear objectives for self and others and measure achievements against these objectives through implementation of the performance management systems
• Build and manage relationships with staff members
• Manage and support staff development
• Implement HDA HR policies and procedures as required
Qualifications and Experience
• Admitted as an attorney or advocate of the high court required
• 5-10 years post qualification experience required
• Contracts drafting and management experience required
Desired Skills:
• Admitted Attorney
• Admitted Advocate
• Legal Contract Management
• Legal Compliance Management
• Legal Land Management
• Service Provider Management
