Associate Legal Counsel at Victory Farms

Roles & Responsibilities:

Commercial and Contractual Support

• Draft, review, and negotiate all commercial contracts including supply agreements, processing and logistics contracts, distributor and customer contracts, NDAs, MOUs, and service agreements.
• Track key obligations, renewal dates, and termination rights.

Land, Lake and Property Risk

• Support the legal management of land purchases and leases, lake use rights and site access, subdivisions, successions, and any title regularization processes.

Regulatory and Government Compliance

• Advise on and support compliance with fisheries and aquaculture regulations, environmental and water use licenses, county cess, permits, and business licenses, public health and food safety rules.
• Interface with County governments, Fisheries authorities, NEMA, regulators, Inspectors and auditors.

Employment and Labour Matters

• Provide legal support on disciplinary hearings, show-cause and termination processes, and employment classifications (casual, contract, permanent) as well as compliance with overtime, wages, and statutory benefits.
• Ensure compliance with Employment Act, Labour Relations law, minimum wage and working hours regulations.

 Immigration and Expatriate Management

• Support legal compliance for work permits and visas, expatriates’ contracts and assignments, Immigration audits and renewals.
• Coordinate with the Legal and Immigration Clerk and government agencies.

Disputes and Litigation Management

• Manage external counsel on cases involving Labour claims, land disputes, commercial and regulatory matters.
• Instruct, coordinate, and supervise external counsel.
• Prepare legal strategies, pleadings, and settlement positions.

 Corporate and Governance Support

• Prepare board resolutions, regulatory filings and corporate records.

Data, Compliance and Risk

• Support the Data Protection Officer on Data Protection Act compliance, investigations and breach responses.
• Identify and escalate legal risks that could shut down operations, trigger fines or license loss and damage the company’s reputation

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor of Laws (LLB) and Post-Graduate Diploma (Advocates Training Programme or equivalent)
• Admitted Advocate of the High Court of Kenya.
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in Commercial law, Employment and regulatory law, Land or project-based legal work.
• Data Protection certification with proven practical experience.
• Experience dealing with Government agencies, Regulators, Large operational businesses.
• Strong contract drafting and negotiation.
• Ability to convert legal principles into actionable business guidance.
• High attention to detail and risk awareness.