Legal Officer, Legal Services - 2 Posts at Insurance Regulatory Authority (IRA)

Job Specifications

The duties and responsibilities will entail:

• Assisting in providing legal advice in assigned matters.
• Assisting in representing the Authority in court, tribunals and in alternative dispute resolution (ADR) proceedings.
• Ensuring procedural compliance in assigned legal proceedings.
• Receiving and acting upon summons, pleadings, and demand letters.
• Ensuring action on summons, legal process, registry filings, pleadings, and demand letters.
• Liaising with external service providers, monitoring deliverables against agreed terms, and escalating variances for action.
• Assisting providing task direction to the Legal Assistant on assigned matters, quality-checking outputs, and providing inputs to performance appraisals as requested.
• Participating in multi-divisional and multi-agency teams as assigned.
• Participates in mentoring and coaching of legal assistants.

Person Specifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Laws.
• Post Graduate Diploma in Law from an institution recognized by the Council for Legal Education.
• Advocate of the High Court of Kenya with a valid practicing certificate.
• Proficiency in Computer applications.

Competencies and Skills

• Communication skills
• Interpersonal skills
• Analytical skills
• Report writing skills
• Presentation skills
• Mentoring, coaching and leadership skills.
• Conflict management