Legal Adviser: Commercial (4 Months)

Legal Drafting and Legal Advisory

Drafting a variety of commercial legal agreements, including funding agreements, sponsorship agreements, service level agreements, etc.

Provide expert legal advice and guidance on a wide range of legal matters, including contracts, compliance and regulatory issues.

Conduct legal research and analysis to anticipate and identify potential legal risks and implications associated with activities, initiatives and decisions.

Support TIA Business Units, as part of a Deal Team by participating in legal due diligence processes with regard to funding applications and innovation programme concepts.

Ad-hoc – any other related legal work allocated by Line Manager, as and when required.

Governance

Maintain strict adherence to workflows, standard operating procedures and processes for contract drafting.

Maintain strict adherence to all applicable legislation.

Maintain strict adherence to all TIA's policies, frameworks, guidelines and systems.

Quality

Ensure quality assurance in respect of all written documents, including contracts, reports, memoranda, etc.

Ensure information systems and tools are optimally utilised to execute tasks.

Perspective

LEARNING AND GROWTH

Key Result Areas

Key Performance Activities

Key Performance Indicators

Performance Management and Competency Development

Knowledge-sharing in order to transfer knowledge and skill to other Team members.

Attend work-related, self-development courses including training (both external and internal) seminars, conferences, webinars, workshops, etc.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Law (e.g. LLB, B Proc, B Iuris or related)

Admission as an Attorney or Advocate

Experience:

Five (5) years' post admission

In addition hereto, two (2) years' experience in a commercial environment and/or prior exposure to the technology innovation environment.

Behavioral (soft skills)

• Assertive

• Critical judgment

• Customer Centricity

• Impact and influence

• Initiative

• Interactive communication

• Interpersonal skills

• Leading and managing change

Technical Skills:

• Business acumen

• Commercial decision-making

• Communication – written and verbal

• Advanced computer literacy skills

• Decisiveness

• Judgment and decision-making

• Negotiation skills

• Analytical and interpretation skills

• Legal analysis and report writing skills

• Research and technical report writing skills

• Contract drafting skills

• Legal Opinion drafting skills