Legal Officer
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: https://www.kebs.org for detailed job
profile/description and instruction on how to apply.
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 15th 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.