Transition
Authority
Vacant
Position forInterim County Legal Officers
Location: All Counties
Location: All Counties
Purpose: To provide specialized legal assistance
and coordinate law reform function and activities in the County
Responsibilities:
- Manage
the delivery of law reform function and related activities in the County;
- Keep
abreast of legal and policy developments relevant to the County Government
in the respective County;
- Work
with the County Government and its agencies to identify strategic priority
areas that require law reform;
- Undertake
legal research and legislative drafting of County bills;
- Provide
advice to County Government and its agencies on law reform issues;
- Assist
in the implementation of a program of law reform in the County;
- Prepare
draft bills;
- Prepare
reports, issue papers and submissions on law reform issues;
- Prepare
monthly/quarterly reports to the Transition Authority and Kenya Law Reform
Commission.
- Offer
general legal advice to the county governments
Qualifications:
- Must
be a serving public officer as the position is on secondment to the
counties.
- Possess
a law degree from a recognized University, Masters in Law will be an added
advantage ;
- Admitted
as an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya for at least five years;
- Knowledge
and experience in legal research and/or legislative drafting;
- Excellent
legal and analytical skills and sound judgment;
- Excellent
written and verbal communication skills- able to convey complex legal
arguments and principles clearly to specialist and non-specialist
audiences; and
- Must
be Computer proficient
All applications should reach the Transition Authority by 12th
April 2013.
Address
KICC
5TH Floor
P.O. Box 10736-0010
Nairobi
P.O. Box 10736-0010
Nairobi
Telephone:
+254-0710287080
Email:
infotransauthority@gmail.com
