Responsibilities

• Advising executive, senior management and board on various legal matters.
• Ensuring all members of the legal team work efficiently.
• Helping to draft, vet and negotiate contracts, and regular review of all contracts, legal documents and templates to ensure they are up-to-date and compliant with applicable statutory laws.
• Maintaining knowledge of organisation’s legal documents.
• Advising on the legal implications of company policies and procedures
• Identifying and mitigating legal risks.
• Conducting legal research and reviewing company's litigation strategy in response to any legal actions.
• Oversee creation and management of directives of corporate acts and decisions, often through external company secretaries.
• Managing and liaising with outside counsel regarding their assignments.
• Ensuring all company trademark registrations are up to date.
• Reporting on legal activities, risks and litigation.

Requirements

• Ability to multitask and prioritise workload;
• Excellent interpersonal and (English) communication skills across different audiences and stakeholder management, (including virtually and remotely with other office locations;
• Good understanding of business sensitivities and confidentiality;
• Possess a qualifying law degree (e.g. LLB, JD, ideally from common law jurisdiction), but need not be locally qualified to practise;
• Experienced legal counsel (ideally 7+ years PQE or in-house) with a sound overall legal knowledge and attention to detail;
• Experience in the insurance industry is a plus.

NOTE: This is a 6 months contract role