Legal Intern at Kenya Association of Manufacturers

Job Purpose:

• We are seeking a motivated intern to provide administrative, research, coordination, and documentation support to the Legal and Regulatory Section in advancing KAM’s legal, regulatory, policy, compliance, and member advocacy initiatives.

Duties & Responsibilities

Legal Research & Regulatory Monitoring

• Conduct legal and regulatory research on legislation, regulations, policies, legal notices, standards, and public participation matters affecting manufacturers.
• Monitor national and county legislative and regulatory developments relevant to KAM members.
• Prepare preliminary summaries, issue notes, and regulatory updates for departmental review.

Policy, Advocacy & Compliance Support

• Draft memoranda, position papers, issue matrices, correspondence, and consultation notes for departmental review.
• Compile member feedback on legal and regulatory issues for advocacy engagements.
• Track compliance obligations, regulatory timelines, and action points arising from stakeholder engagements.

Documentation & Secretariat Support

• Prepare briefs, matrices, summaries, minutes, memoranda, and correspondence.
• Provide logistical and secretariat support for meetings, public participation forums, consultations, and engagements with regulators and government agencies.
• Draft minutes, attendance records, meeting briefs, and action trackers.

Contract Review & Records Management

• Support preliminary review of contracts, agreements, memoranda of understanding, and related legal documents for completeness, formatting, and attachments.
• Maintain and update the contract tracker, including status, timelines, responsible officers, renewal periods, expiry dates, and pending actions.
• Organize contract records, file executed agreements, follow up on outstanding inputs, and escalate contracts requiring review, approval, renewal, or closure.

Contract Review & Records Management

• Support preliminary review of contracts, agreements, memoranda of understanding, and related legal documents for completeness, formatting, and attachments.
• Maintain and update the contract tracker, including status, timelines, responsible officers, renewal periods, expiry dates, and pending actions.
• Organize contract records, file executed agreements, follow up on outstanding inputs, and escalate contracts requiring review, approval, renewal, or closure.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Laws (LL.B) degree from a recognized institution.
• Completion of the Kenya School of Law programme (awaiting admission to the Bar) or recent admission as an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya.
• Prior internship or attachment experience in a legal, regulatory, policy, or corporate environment is an added advantage.