Officer, Legal Service at Kenya Bureau of Standards

Job Purpose
The Job is responsible for providing legal support to the organisation through legal research, drafting of various legal instruments, providing legal opinions, representing KEBS in court.

Key Responsibilities/ Duties / Tasks
Managerial / Supervisory Responsibilities

Operational Responsibilities / Tasks

• Drafts legal instruments and internal policies and ensures that they are in compliance with all statutory or legal requirements.
• Liaise with relevant departments to ensure that where legal risks and liabilities have been identified, appropriate courses of action have been taken.
• Interprets legal information and disseminates appropriate legal requirements to staff.
• Drafts and negotiates documentations for business transactions.
• Communicates within and across Legal Office and foster a work environment conducive to efficient results-based team work by ensuring that there is technical, administrative and financial support.
• Prepares reports, pleadings and defences on behalf of the corporation and attends to court matters, tribunals, arbitration and other quasi-judicial bodies.
• Provides professional support in drafting legal opinions and interpretations of court rulings and judgments for effective implementations.
• Reviews pre-trial and/or briefs from departments in the organization to ensure water tight cases for the corporation.
• Peruses served court pleadings and ensures prepares responses on the same.
• Carrying out legal research to keep abreast with new developments in court processes and amendments of various legislations.
• Prepares monthly, quarterly and annual reports for management as appropriate.
• Participate in maintenance of quality management systems standards by taking part in internal quality audits and management review meetings.

Job Competencies (Knowledge, Experience and Attributes / Skills).
Academic qualifications

• Bachelor of Laws degree

Professional Qualifications / Membership to professional bodies

• Post Graduate Diploma in Law
• Admission as an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya
• Member of the Law Society of Kenya and in good standing
• Current Practicing Certificate from Law society of Kenya

Previous relevant work experience required.

• 2 years