Deputy Director Legal Services

The Deputy Director Legal Services will provide strategic legal leadership to the Board, ensuring compliance with laws and regulations, and safeguarding the Board's interests in all legal matters. This role involves guiding the Board on governance, managing litigation, overseeing contracts, and providing legal advisory services to management.

• Providing guidance to the Board on their duties and responsibilities and on matters of governance.
• Drafting minutes, Board and Committee papers for approval and circulation by the Chief Executive Officer.
• Custodian of the seal of the Board and account to the Board for its use.
• Maintaining and updating the Conflict of Interest and Gift Registers of the Board.
• Ensuring that Board members are aware of all relevant laws affecting the Board.
• Facilitating effective communication between the Board and the shareholders.
• Ensuring that annual returns are promptly filed with the relevant authorities.
• Spearheading the development, implementation and review of policies, strategies, frameworks, work plans, legislations, guidelines, procedures, regulations, norms, standards and programmes for the Board.
• Spearheading provision of legal advice and interpretation of statutes, subsidiary rules, and regulations.
• Safeguarding the Board by ensuring it is adequately defended before the Courts of law, and Tribunals.
• Coordinating the Board's input in National and Sectoral planning processes.
• Spearheading drafting, review and amendments where necessary contractual instruments entered into between the Board and third parties.
• Overseeing review of contracts or other documentation where the Board has committed itself and assess legal implications necessary for the attention of Management.
• Coordinating management, review and monitoring of progress and status of outstanding litigation.
• Overseeing issuance of instructions, liaison with the Board's external advocates to ensure Board's interest while handling cases on its behalf.
• Coordinating the initiation, review, drafting of necessary instruments for business transactions.
• Ensuring the Board complies with constitutional, regulatory and relevant laws in force through the provision of legal advisory services.
• Ensuring risks arising from contractual engagements are effectively and efficiently managed.
• Spearheading advisory to management on all legal, regulatory and contractual matters.
• Ensuring custody and accountability of the Board's seal, securities, agreements, minutes, titles and other legal instruments.
• Overseeing provision of legal guidance on contractual and statutory obligations binding upon the Board.
• Advising on mitigating measures for addressing risks in the division.
• Ensuring business continuity plans are developed and operational for the division.
• Initiating and implementing Business Process Re-engineering BPR in the division.
• Facilitating stakeholder engagement and fostering a corporate culture that promotes ethical practices and good corporate citizenship.
• Spearheading the development and implementation of the division's strategic plans, budgets and performance contract.
• Managing, mentoring, coaching and developing staff in the division.

• Cumulative service period of twelve 12 years' work experience, three 3 of which should have been in a management position or in a comparable position.
• Bachelor of Laws degree from a recognized institution.
• Master of Laws degree from a recognized institution.
• Post graduate Diploma in Law from the Kenya School of Law.
• Admission as an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya.
• A valid practicing certificate.
• Certificate in Leadership Course, lasting not less than four 4 weeks from a recognized institution.
• Membership of the Law Society of Kenya.
• Proficiency in computer applications.
• Demonstrated managerial, administrative and professional competence in work performance and results.