PARALEGAL: LEGAL ADVISORY SERVICES

Department: Private Office of the Executive Mayor (POEM)
Branch: Office of the Chief of Staff
Designation: Paralegal: Legal Advisory Services
Remuneration: R 338, 617.02 pa (all-inclusive cost to company)
Location: Metropolitan Centre, 158 Civic Boulevard, Braamfontein

Minimum Requirements:

• A Matric / Grade 12 Certificate;
• Certificate in Law/Paralegal/Legal Assistance or relevant at an NQF level 5;
• 1 – 2 years relevant experience in a professional capacity.

Primary Function:
Render comprehensive paralegal assistance to the Assistant Director: Legal Services,
including legal research, maintaining, and responding to correspondence with internal
and external stakeholders, providing administrative support and maintaining a
functional filing system.

Key Performance Areas:

Execute specific activities to ensure effective legal advisory services management key
among others:

•  Supporting legal research
•  Managing records, projects and calendars to make sure everything functions
• smoothly
•  Produces information by transcribing, formatting, inputting, editing, retrieving, copying, and transmitting text, data, and graphics to help coordinate case and/or report preparation.
•  Reads, researches, reviews, verifies, and routes correspondence, reports, and legal documents.
• Execute specific activities to ensure effective legal register maintenance;
• Execute any other duties as directed by Assistant Director: Legal Services
• Execute project planning process to inform the business unit on business planning
  process;
• Execute specific activities to ensure effective correspondence management;
• Execute activities associated with management and control of the assets and resources;
• Perform general administrative and reporting.

Leading Competencies:

• Computer literacy and proficiency in MS Office Suite;
• Good communication, coordination skills;
• Excellent writing skills.

Core Competencies:

• Knowledge and understanding of the local government environment;
• Knowledge of the City’s strategy (IDP), , legislative, policy and regulatory frameworks;
• understanding of council strategy and policies in relation to local government and how
  they can be practically applied on a day-to-day basis;
• Knowledge of principles and practices of municipal organization administration.