Job Vacancies at Food For Education

About the Role

The Legal Manager provides comprehensive legal support and guidance to the organization across a wide range of legal and business matters. This role requires a strong understanding of corporate, regulatory, commercial, and employment law. The Legal Associate will work closely with the various departments to ensure the organization's legal and regulatory compliance.

Key Responsibilities

• Advise the organisation on a wide variety of legal and compliance matters.
• Responsible for conducting extensive legal research, and providing opinions on various legal matters
• Structuring, drafting, reviewing, interpreting, and negotiating a wide range of commercial contracts and other legal documents, as well as overseeing compliance of these contracts by all parties.
• Manage the contract lifecycle, including contract tracking, renewals, and terminations
• developing and reviewing company policies
• Assist with corporate governance matters.
• conducting due diligence on all partners of the organisation.
• advise on general legal compliance matters, including regulatory, intellectual property matters, employment matters, and non-profit law among others,
• advise all relevant departments on pending legislation or changes in relevant laws and statutes to ensure the company’s compliance in these areas, in order to mitigate or minimize compliance risks.
• Conduct regular compliance audits in order to identify weaknesses and provide recommendations to resolve any non-compliance issues to relevant stakeholders. 
• Responsible for collaborating and building valuable relationships with outside counsel, as well as setting priorities for, overseeing, and supervising the performance of outside counsel.  
• Resolving issues that arise in existing commercial relationships and handling pre-litigation legal disputes and inquiries.
• Support internal investigations or other legal or administrative proceedings and manage any litigation matters.
• Other duties may be assigned from time to time by the head of the Legal.

Qualifications and experience

• Advocate of the High Court of Kenya
• Minimum 5 years experience in corporate commercial law
• In-house counsel experience will be an added advantage.

Personal Attributes 

• Superior written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to understand, summarize, and convey complex information in readily understandable terms.
• Analytical and detail-oriented.
• Excellent interpersonal and negotiation skills.  
• Good organizational, planning, and time management skills.
• Result-oriented: Takes on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy, and enthusiasm.
• Proficiency in the use of relevant computer applications/commonly used packages like MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Experience in the use of various legal software applications would be valuable. 
• A good team player: Able to cultivate excellent working relationships with colleagues and collaborate effectively as part of a team of professionals while still capable of working well independently. 
• Able to represent F4E effectively and professionally to external stakeholders. 

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About the Role

The Data Protection Officer (DPO) will be responsible for ensuring the organization complies with the Data Protection Act, 2019, and any other applicable data protection laws and regulations, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The DPO will be managing and overseeing all data protection-related matters within the organization.

Key Responsibilities

• Undertake periodic audits to ensure compliance with Data protection laws.
• Develop and implement data protection policies, procedures, and guidelines in line with the Data Protection Act, and any other applicable laws.
• Conduct Data Protection Impact Assessments to assess the privacy risks of new projects and technologies.
• Advise on data protection compliance across all departments within the organization.
• Provide training and awareness programs to employees on data protection best practices.
• Handle data subject access requests and other data protection-related requests.
• Monitor and respond to data breaches and security incidents.
• Ensure registration is up to date, and liaise with relevant authorities on data protection matters.
• Manage any queries from the Office of the Data Protection Commission relating to data protection for the organisation.
• Advise the organisation of any changes in data protection legislation and the impact those changes may have on the organisation.
• Generally manage organizational risks on data handling.

Qualifications and experience

• A Degree in Law and any other relevant degree
• Certification as a Data Protection Officer
• 3 years experience as a Data Protection Officer or a similar position. 
• Strong understanding of data protection laws and regulations.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and organizational skills.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.