Job description
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
Originally posted on Himalayas
Who can apply
Eligible countries: United States. Accepted UTC offsets: UTC-10, UTC-9, UTC-8, UTC-7, UTC-6, UTC-5, UTC+14. Review the full description for employer-specific work authorization, residency and schedule requirements.