About this role
Responsibilities
- Prepare legal opinions;
- Provide legal risk reviews and providing legal advice; and
- Review ongoing cases and advising management accordingly.
- Provide and interpret legal information;
- Conduct training and disseminating appropriate legal information to staff;
- Review and draft contracts, agreements internal policies and ensuring that they are in compliance with statutory or legal requirements;
- Monitor and report non-compliance issues;
- Handle pre-litigation legal disputes and inquiries;
- Participate in policy development and advising on legal policy issues
- Ensure compliance with principles and values of good governance;
- Implement strategic plans and objectives in respect to the legal function;
Qualifications / Work Experience
- Professional Cumulative service period of three (3) year relevant work experience as a Legal Officer II or in a comparable position
- Academic Bachelors of Laws (LLB) Degree from a recognized Institution
- Academic Post graduate Diploma in Law (Advocates Training Programme) from the Kenya School of Law
- Professional Membership to the Law Society of Kenya (LSK);
- Professional Admitted as an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya