Manager: Legal Advisor

The Road Accident Fund’s mission is to provide appropriate cover to all road users within the borders of South Africa; to rehabilitate and compensate persons injured as a result of motor vehicle accidents in a timely and caring manner; and to actively promote safe use of our roads.

Purpose of the Job: Reporting to the Senior Manager: Corporate Legal Services, the successful incumbent is responsible to provide management and technical leadership support to the Senior Manager: Compliance of the Legal and Compliance Department in line with the strategic objectives of the organisation as determined by the Board of the RAF and to manage, monitor and report on corporate litigation and RAF compensation litigation where issues of constitutionality are raised.

Key Performance Areas

Provision of Legal Advice to Business

• Manage, monitor and report on legal advice provided by the Legal Advice section.
• Instruct attorney to brief counsel on legal opinions.
• Where appropriate consult with attorney and counsel.
• Conduct legal research.
• Draft and communicate legal opinion/advice.
• Collaborate with the Training Department on specific training requirements and the development of training material;
• Publish a monthly Legal Advice Newsletter;
• Publish periodically legal articles in external media; and
• Maintain and update legal advice register.

Policy Review and Implementation

• Contribute to the development and implementation of departmental policy, procedures and processes.
• Keep up to date with effective policy and practice execution strategies.

Reporting

• Prepare and submit reports as and when required to provide progress updates and/or inform management decisions.
• Develop reports/ policies/ procedures and guide the process through the alignment of the documents to the overall RAF’s Strategy.
• Develop functional reporting systems, for management, projects or performance reporting.

Stakeholder Management

• Facilitate and manage communication with relevant internal and external stakeholders in relation to investments and proactively and progressively manage the relationships.
• Manage relationships with vendors, service providers or procurement teams and ensure that all relevant procured items are invoiced and paid on Time.
• Communicate with all levels of stakeholder contact.

People Management

• Ensure the sourcing, development and retention of a high-performance team.
• Manage staff in the department to ensure that they achieve their objectives in line with the strategic objectives of the RAF. Manage the implementation of human capital processes and procedures to control/ regulate workplace conflict and/or institute corrective measures and consultation processes to address deviations from standards.
• Allocate, direct, motivate and evaluate subordinates to help them achieve their individual goals.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in Law or equivalent
• Postgraduate in Law related qualification will be an added advantage.
• Admission as an Attorney of the High Court or Advocate.
• Right of appearance in the High Court will be an added advantage.
• Relevant 6 - 8 years’ experience in a Legal environment of which 2 years must have been on manager/ supervisory level/ area of expertise.

Technical and Behavioral Competencies Required

• Resilience.
• Network and alliance.
• Employee engagement.
• Ethics and values.
• Change management.
• Critical and innovative thinking
• Policy conceptualisation and formulation.
• Risk Management.
• Stakeholder development and relations.
• Reporting.
• Contract law
• Legal Drafting
• Legal Research
• PAIA, PAJA, ECTA and other relevant legislation.
• Communication (Written & Verbal).
• Consolidate the RAF strategic Risk register in line with King IV guidelines and National. Treasury Risk Management Framework.
• Ability to analyse and solve problems.
• Knowledge of MVA law.
• Knowledge of Public Procurement.
• Knowledge of the legislation applicable to the RAF.
• Knowledge of legislation applicable to public entities.

NB: “RAF offers Total Employment Cost packages with no additional contributions from the Employer, successful candidates are required to structure their packages in a manner that will suit their needs”.

The Road Accident Fund subscribes to the principles of employment equity and preference will be given to People with Disabilities.

Applicants who have not received any correspondence from us within six weeks from the closing date can consider themselves unsuccessful

Security Vetting shall be conducted on all prospective employees

It is the applicants’ responsibility to have foreign qualification evaluated by the South African Qualification Authority (SAQA) and to provide proof of such evaluation.