Job Description
Role Summary:
Lead and oversee all legal operations within SAFE, ensuring legal compliance, providing strategic legal counsel, and representing SAFE in legal proceedings when necessary.
Main Responsibilities:
- Manage and oversee the legal operations of the department, ensuring smooth functioning.
- Provide expert legal advice and guidance on various legal matters to support the company's operations.
- Review and draft legal documents, contracts, agreements, and internal policies to ensure legal compliance and protect the company's interests.
- Ensure strict compliance with applicable laws and regulations, helping the company operate within legal boundaries.
- Represent the company in legal proceedings when necessary, defending its interests and rights.
- Collaborate with internal teams to identify and proactively mitigate legal risks that may affect the company.
- Stay current with changes in laws and regulations that impact the company and provide guidance accordingly.
- Manage disputes and report them to the head of the department, taking appropriate action as needed.
- Lead and manage the legal department's personnel, overseeing day-to-day activities to ensure efficiency and seamless support to other departments.
- Liaise with external law firms to implement legal strategies and ensure proper monitoring and follow-up.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in law or a related field.
- 7+ years of experience in various rules.
Core Competency:
Dependability:
- Self-driven and takes action proactively.
- Pursues goals with persistence and stamina, works on tasks thoroughly, ensuring accuracy and meeting standards.
- Maintains high levels of quality and effectiveness of work outputs and achieves outstanding results.
Collaboration:
- Collaborates constructively with people at all levels across the organization
- Helps colleagues, always be available to the team, and delivers on team commitments.
- Trusts the guidance and direction of colleagues and senior members of the team.
Analytical Thinking:
- Examines, evaluates, and analyses different types of information objectively.
- Spots trends and patterns, establishes key facts clearly and interprets numerical data effectively.
- Provides insights and identifies ways to improve things. Trusts intuition about which methods will work best.
Effective Communication:
- Listens attentively and seeks to understand before being understood.
- Explains things clearly and articulates and presents information effectively and confidently.
- Challenges ideas effectively and presents persuasive arguments by presenting a strong case.
Functional Competency :
Legal Research and Analysis:
- Proficient in conducting legal research and analyzing complex legal issues.
Negotiation Skills
- Strong negotiation skills for resolving legal matters and reaching favorable outcomes.
Strategic Planning:
- Ability to develop and implement legal strategies that align with the company's goals and objectives.
Managerial Accountability
- Human Capital Development:
- Create strategy, goals, or plans for the team as appropriate, in alignment with SAFE goals.
- Set priorities and manage workload for self and staff.
- Recognize training needs and ensure that staff gain needed skills.
- Create strategy, goals, or plans for the team as appropriate, in alignment with SAFE goals.
