Senior Officer: Legal Administration (3 Year Fixed-Term-Contract)

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 Manager: Legal Administration, the successful incumbent is accountable to provide support to the Manager: Legal Administration in implementing processes for ensuring early settlement of non-litigious claims. The role will also supervise the work of Officer: Legal Administration.

Key Performance Areas

Legal Administration

• Coordinate process relating to the  arbitration of  disputes between parties.
• Provide advise relating to recommending acceptance or rejection of compromise settlement offers.
• Coordinate hearings to ensure that  information or evidence relative to claims is obtained.
• Collate all the evidence and directives required for the dispute resolutions.
• Document all matters raised during consultation sessions.
• Supervise the provision of document proceedings and follow up on the action log relation to the settlement of the claims discussion.
• Coordination of block settlement consultations on time.

Summons Administration

• Coordinate and supervise the receipt of summonses and ensure timeously handling to prevent default judgments.
• Monitoring the handling of court documents served against the RAF.
• Report on all summons issued and defended and maintain the records thereof.

Document Management

• Coordinate the packaging of claims files for early settlement discussions.
• Assisting with the preparation of legal documents and arguments.
• Managing and organising unresolved cases.

Reporting

• Contribute to the preparation and submission of reports.
• Report regularly and periodically perform necessary submissions as and when required to provide progress updates and/or inform management decisions.

Stakeholder Management

• Aid in proactive and progressive relationships with key stakeholders.
• Deal with inquiries and requests for information from both internal and external stakeholders.
• Aid in the maintenance of relationships service providers.

People Management

• Ensure that good employee relations are maintained.
• Provide ongoing operational support to employees.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelors' Degree in Law or equivalent.
• Relevant 4 years’ experience in a Legal Administration related environment of which 1 year must have been on a supervisory level.

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.