Job title : Senior Legal Specialist
Job Location : Gauteng, Johannesburg
Deadline : July 19, 2024
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Ref: HDA SLP01
Main Purpose: To provide the HDA with accurate and relevant legal, compliance support and advice to minimise risks and ensure effective contractual arrangements and statutory compliance.
Key Performance Areas:
Strategic Management
- Assist the Manager: Corporate Legal in reviewing the HDA strategy from a legal perspective and ensure compliance
- Assist the Manager: Corporate Legal in developing the HDA legal department with special emphasis on contractual, land legal and intergovernmental relations and legal compliance
- Assist the Manager: Corporate Legal in developing implementation plans to ensure that the HDA legal strategy is implemented
- Assist the Manager: Corporate Legal in monitoring, managing and implementing the plans to ensure that legal strategy is achieved
Policy Review and Implementation
- Contribute to the development and implementation of departmental policy, procedures and processes
- Keep up to date with effective policy and practice execution strategies
Contract Management
- Draft and vet procurement and/or other commercial contracts
- Draft all contracts for the HDA including but not limited to:
- Employment contracts
- Service provider contracts
- Land purchase and disposal contracts
- Land and building management contracts
- Service level agreements
- Project management agreements
- Memoranda of Understanding
- Intergovernmental relationships related agreements
- Terms and conditions of Employment contracts
- MTOP’s, IP, etc.
- Review all contracts signed by the HDA
- Monitor and report on the status of contracts and other agreements drafted/vetted
- Draft legal terms to accompany bid specifications
- Provide input and advice on appropriateness of contracts and recommended or required amendments
- Guide the development of strategic contracting and contract management approaches
- Recommend all contracts for signature or amendments to the authorized HDA signatories
- Compile legal reports on contractual disputes
- Conduct research on legal and contractual issues/disputes
- Update contracts register
- Maintain an updated in the share folder
Legal Management Support and Litigation
- Review and interpret relevant documentation, statutes and information in order to determine the appropriate HDA position
- Provide legal advice to all HDA management as required
- Review legal and contractual environment and identify potential risks
- Provide advice on any disputes, litigation or arbitration related matters
- Represent HDA in litigation and dispute resolution processes and procedures as appropriate
- Manage service providers providing advice or legal 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
Legal Advice
- Provide legal advice on all legal matters impacting on the organisation
- Conduct legal research and prepare legal opinions
- Keep abreast with legal developments that might affect the organisation
- Advise on legal risks impacting the organisation
Stakeholder Management and Service Provider Management
- Assist the legal manager in establishing the legal panel for respective areas of expertise
- Instruct and manage legal service providers with consultation and approval from Legal Manager
- 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 and in consultation with the Manager: Corporate Legal
- Facilitate and manage communication with relevant internal and external stakeholders in relation to investments and proactively and progressively manage the relationships
- Manage relationships with vendors, service providers or procurement teams and ensure that all relevant procured items are invoiced and paid on time
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
- Develop relevant policies and review statutes and policies aligned to all legislation and regulations as and when required.
- Interpret statues and potential implications for the HDA
- Development and review of policies and procedures to ensure legal compliance
- Advise the HDA on governance issues in accordance with the PFMA / King III / HDA Act and all relevant legislation
- Assist with Board Administration (if required)
- Support with management of all legal activities within the HDA
- Knowledge of OSH
- Support and manage IR matters
- Knowledge of Land Legal matters and able to support the Land and other departments
- Knowledge of Contract Management
- Identify legal obligations and risks for the HDA
Qualifications & Experience
- Legal degree (LLB) and Admission as an Attorney or Advocate.
- A minimum of 5 – 8 years’ experience with experience in contract law, commercial law and labour law
- Extensive experience in PFMA and Treasury Regulation, Directive and Practice Notes
- Experience in carrying out investigations and leading evidence in disciplinary cases
- Experience in commercial litigation.
- Knowledge, insight and experience of the public and private sector human settlement environments would be preferable
How to Apply for this Offer
To submit your application, please send an email to:
- Chief Information Officer – [email protected]
- Chief Audit Executive (ERRATUM) – [email protected]
- HR Intern – [email protected]
- Subsidy and Beneficiary Administrator – [email protected]
- Manager: Subsidy and Beneficiary Management – [email protected]
- Senior Legal Specialist – [email protected]
- Head: Investment Office – [email protected]
- Development Manager – [email protected]
Along side below documents:
- CVs received after the closing date will NOT be considered.
- The Job Title and Reference number for the relevant position must appear in the subject line of your application.
- The CV must be in PDF format.
- Copies of all qualifications must be provided.
- Copies of identity document must be provided.
- Two contactable references.
When submitting your application for a position, please adhere to the following:
Kindly take note if you have not been contacted within twenty-one (21) working days of the closing date; please consider your application unsuccessful. Should you not comply with the above requirements your application will NOT be considered.
Send your application to [email protected]