Senior Legal Officer at Roamtech

Role Summary 

The performance of this role holder will be assessed on the basis of the achievements made on: 

• Provide legal advice and preventive lawyering to aid in identifying significant legal obligations, risks, and opportunities to ensure that legal problems and risks are identified and dealt with before they emerge as significant risks to the business.
• Represent the interests of the Company in matters contracts including Commercial, Joint Ventures, Financing, Registration, Procurement/tendering both locally and all outstations.
• Be the central point in company for all litigation matters and manage all legal issues at the Group and country level in liaison with external legal counsel or third parties.
• Manage the process of engaging external counsel, including effective instructions to external counsel and negotiating appropriate fee structures for all legal engagements.
• Review and/or prepare all legal instruments entered into by the company to ensure that the company’s interests are protected.
• Provide advice to all stakeholders on corporate authorities and work closely with the senior management to ensure relevant board and committee approvals are obtained on a timely basis.
• Prepare legal and quasi-legal documentation such as proxy forms, powers/delegations of attorney, tender documentation and liaise with the notaries to arrange for documentation to be legalized.
• Assist with filing of documentation in other jurisdictions for updates to the company international locations and subsidiaries, business and trade registrations and license renewals.
• Brief and monitor external counsel to ensure legal representation is effective.
• Ensure disputes are resolved in a manner that safeguards the company’s position.
• Provide general competition law advice to the business and conduct training on competition compliance.
• Managing the company’s intellectual property portfolio in conjunction with external counsel and the marketing team
• Effective management and development of the direct reports, including individual performance development, objective setting, and performance support

Key Measures of Performance  

• Registration of Afrisend, Senti, Roamtech and Paykit as Data Processors and or Controllers.
• Renewal of all regulatory licences e.g. Communications Authority.
• Registration of any pending trademarks.
• The effectiveness and efficiency of contract drafting for all the three companies.
• Preparation of legal and quasi-legal documentation such as NDAs, Contracts, proxy forms, powers/delegations of attorney, tender documentation and liaise with the notaries to arrange for documentation to be legalized.
• BCLB Registration (Where and when necessary)
• Filing of all requisite returns in time i.e. CAK, BCLB etc;
• Conduct Legal trainings on new regulatory issues, major court decisions as well as other topical issues.
• Implement the contract process flow;
• Maintain and update the contract Management system;
• Maintain and update Trademarks Register;
• Organization Reporting Structure

Key Responsibilities 

• Provide legal advice and preventive lawyering to aid in identifying significant legal obligations, risks, and opportunities to ensure that legal problems and risks are identified and dealt with before they emerge as significant risks to the business.
• Represent the interests of the Company in matters contracts including Commercial, Joint Ventures, Financing, Registration, Procurement/tendering both locally and all outstations.
• Be the central point in company for all litigation matters and manage all legal issues at the Group and country level in liaison with external legal counsel or third parties.
• Manage the process of engaging external counsel, including effective instructions to external counsel and negotiating appropriate fee structures for all legal engagements.
• Review and/or prepare all legal instruments entered into by the company to ensure that the company’s interests are protected.
• Provide advice to all stakeholders on corporate authorities and work closely with the senior management to ensure relevant board and committee approvals are obtained on a timely basis.
• Prepare legal and quasi-legal documentation such as proxy forms, powers/delegations of attorney, tender documentation and liaise with the notaries to arrange for documentation to be legalized.
• Assist with filing of documentation in other jurisdictions for updates to the company international locations and subsidiaries, business and trade registrations and license renewals.
• Brief and monitor external counsel to ensure legal representation is effective.
• Ensure disputes are resolved in a manner that safeguards the company’s position.
• Provide general competition law advice to the business and conduct training on competition compliance.
• Managing the company’s intellectual property portfolio in conjunction with external counsel and the marketing team
• Effective management and development of the direct reports, including individual performance development, objective setting, and performance support

Academic and Professional Qualifications 

• A Bachelor’s degree in Law.
• Certified Public secretary, an advantage 
• Post Graduate Diploma in Law & Admitted to the bar.