| Job Title: |
Principal Legal Officer |
| Grade: |
KeNIA 4 |
| Basic Pay |
75, 245 |
| Job Purpose |
| To provide secretariat services to the Board and performance of the legal function at KeNIA. |
| Key Responsibilities / Duties / Tasks |
- Providing legal guidance on contractual and statutory obligations binding to the Agency;
- Safeguarding the Agency’s interests and ensuring that they are adequately defended before the courts;
- Liaising with the Agency’s appointed Advocates to ensure they act in the Agency’s interest while handling cases on its behalf;
- Providing and interpreting legal information, conducting training, and disseminating appropriate legal requirements to staff;
- Managing, reviewing, and monitoring the progress of all outstanding litigation;
- Ensuring the Agency complies with constitutional, regulatory, and all relevant laws in force through the provision of legal advisory services and contractual risks are efficiently managed;
- Documenting and maintaining a record of all enforcement and compliance assignments undertaken by the Agency personnel and developing legal accountability structures in relation to enforcement of assignments;
- Maintaining a Register of Regulations, Rules, Guidelines, and By-Laws that affect the Agency;
- Drafting of the Legal Agency’s regulations, rules, or guidelines;
- Establishing and managing the Agency’s Alternative Dispute Resolution Mechanism;
- Developing the Agency’s proactive and preventive legal policies and strategies aimed at forestalling disputes, controversies, and litigation;
- Preparing, reviewing, and modifying contractual instruments to assist and support various business activities, and negotiate, review and draft documentation for business transactions;
- Conducting legal due diligence on all prospective Lessees, Licensees, Partners or other third parties with whom the Agency is to enter a legal relationship with; and
- Developing and vetting policy papers and instruments with legal implications for approval by the Board.
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| Job Competencies (Knowledge, Experience and Attributes / Skills). |
| Academic Qualifications |
- Bachelors of Laws (LLB) degree from a recognized Institution;
- Postgraduate Diploma in Law (Advocates Training Programme) from the Kenya School of Law;
- Be admitted as an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya;
- Management course from a recognized Institution; and
- Proficiency in computer applications.
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| Professional Qualifications / Membership to professional bodies |
| Membership to the Law Society of Kenya (LSK) and the Agency of Certified Public Secretaries of Kenya (ICPS (K); |
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Previous relevant work experience required. |
| Served for a cumulative period of nine (9) years relevant work experience three (3) of which should have been in the grade of Senior Legal Officer or in a comparable position in Public Service or Private Sector; |
| Functional Skills: |
Behavioral Competencies/ Attributes: |
| 1) Managerial skills
2) Communication skills
3) Leadership skills
4) Team management skills
5) Critical thinking and Decision making
6) Problem solving skills.
7) Report and minute writing skills.
8) IT Proficiency skills
9) Organizational skills |
1) Interpersonal skills
2) Adaptability and decisiveness
3) Proactive, networking and negotiating skills.
4) Detail oriented.
5) Commitment to work
6) Integrity
7) Emotional intelligence
8) Ability to work in a multi-racial environment and appreciate other cultures |
