Legal Officer, Compliance Services at Kenya Electricity Transmission Company Limited (KETRACO)

Reporting to the Senior Legal Officer, Contracts & Governance, the successful candidate will be responsible for creating awareness of and ensuring compliance with statutory, regulatory and policy frameworks that impact on the Company’s core mandate.

Key Responsibilities:

• Conducting continuous surveillance and regular legal audits to ensure compliance with all statutory and policy requirements/guidelines;
• Preparing and updating the legal compliance matrix;
• Drafting and updating Legal Audit and Compliance policies;
• Drafting the Terms of Reference for the conduct of bi-annual legal compliance audits;
• Initiating implementation of legal audit recommendations;
• Continuously monitoring statutory and regulatory changes and creating awareness of statutory and policy requirements/guidelines to Staff in the Company;
• Preparing periodic reports on the level of adherence to statutory and policy requirements/guidelines;
• Providing support in preparation, continuous review and implementation of internal policy documents;
• Proposing possible improvements to internal processes and workflows;
• Implementing Presidential Directives, Circulars and Executive Orders; unication to the stakeholders on legal, contractual requirements and/or obligations.

Qualifications & Skills required:

• Bachelor’s degree in Law from a recognized institution
• Must be an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya, member of Law Society of Kenya (LSK)
• and have a valid practicing certificate;
• Post Graduate Diploma in Law from the Council of Legal Education; and
• Must have three (3) years relevant work experience