Legal Officer Job, Kenyan Legal Jobs 2023,
Job Purpose
The Job is responsible for providing legal support to the organisation through legal research, drafting of various legal instruments, providing legal opinions, representing KEBS in court.
Key Responsibilities/ Duties / Tasks
Managerial / Supervisory Responsibilities
Operational Responsibilities / Tasks
- Drafts legal instruments and internal policies and ensures that they are in compliance with all statutory or legal requirements.
- Liaise with relevant departments to ensure that where legal risks and liabilities have been identified, appropriate courses of action have been taken.
- Interprets legal information and disseminates appropriate legal requirements to staff.
- Drafts and negotiates documentations for business transactions.
- Communicates within and across Legal Office and foster a work environment conducive to efficient results-based team work by ensuring that there is technical, administrative and financial support.
- Prepares reports, pleadings and defences on behalf of the corporation and attends to court matters, tribunals, arbitration and other quasi-judicial bodies.
- Provides professional support in drafting legal opinions and interpretations of court rulings and judgments for effective implementations.
- Reviews pre-trial and/or briefs from departments in the organization to ensure water tight cases for the corporation.
- Peruses served court pleadings and ensures prepares responses on the same.
- Carrying out legal research to keep abreast with new developments in court processes and amendments of various legislations.
- Prepares monthly, quarterly and annual reports for management as appropriate.
- Participate in maintenance of quality management systems standards by taking part in internal quality audits and management review meetings.
Job Dimensions:
Financial Responsibility
Participating in development of budgets
Responsibility for Physical Assets
Responsible for physical assets in the directorate.
III. Decision Making / Job Influence
Makes operational decisions.
Working Conditions
Works typically within the office, but also travel to take part in meetings
Job Competencies (Knowledge, Experience and Attributes / Skills).
Academic qualifications
Bachelor of Laws degree
Professional Qualifications / Membership to professional bodies
- Post Graduate Diploma in Law
- Admission as an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya
- Member of the Law Society of Kenya and in good standing
- Current Practicing Certificate from Law society of Kenya
Previous relevant work experience required.
2 years
Functional Skills, Behavioural Competencies/Attributes:
Functional Skills and competences
- Interpersonal skills
- Time management skills
- Analytical skills
- Communication skills
- Minute writing
- Report writing
- Leadership skills
- Problem solving skills
- Negotiation skills
How to Apply
Please visit the careers page on KEBS website:
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Interested and qualified candidates applications should be submitted either SOFTCOPY to recruitment@kebs.org or HARDCOPY sent by post or hand delivered to KEBS HQ office addressed to the address below, indicating VACANCY NAME on the envelope on or before 15 th February, 2023 at 17:00 HRs, EAT enclosing/attach Cover
letter, a detailed CV with full details on education background, professional qualifications and relevant experience together with copies of Testimonials, Academic Certificates and National Identification Card.
The Managing Director, Kenya Bureau of Standards
Popo Road, Off Mombasa Road,
P.O. Box 54974 – 00200 NAIROBI.
IMPORTANT NOTICE
- KEBS DOES NOT charge any fee in the recruitment process.
- Persons with disability and female candidates are encouraged to apply.
- Academic Qualifications of external origin MUST be accompanied with a recognition and equation certificate from the relevant body in Kenya.
- Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Canvassing will lead to automatic disqualification.
- All degree applicants for engineering related qualifications must be Registered as Graduate Engineers.
- The applicants must comply with Chapter Six (6) of the Constitution of Kenya.