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Senior Legal Advisor (Green Fund) [Midrand]
POSTED BY: Development Bank of Southern Africa
REF:DBSA 216
Date Published:Wednesday, February 23, 2022
Date of Expiration:Monday, August 22, 2022 EXPIRED
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| LOCATION OF THIS JOB |
 South Africa | MIDRAND in South Africa |
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| DEVELOPMENT FINANCE INSTITUTIONS
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| MAIN JOB DESCRIPTION |
Closing Date 2022/03/03
Reference Number DBS220216-1
Job Title Senior Legal Advisor (Green Fund) [Midrand]
Job Grade 18
Job Type Classification Contract
Location - Town / City Midrand
Location - Province Gauteng
Location - Country South Africa
JOB DESCRIPTION
1. This is a Three Year (3) Fixed Term Contract
2. The Senior Legal Advisor will be required to proactively oversee the Climate and Environtal Finance legal requirements for the Green Fund working closely with the Climate Unit.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
TECHNICAL OUTPUTS
1. Provide general legal support to the Green Fund and Climate Finance Unit of the DBSA
2. Assist Climate Finance Investment Officers in the structuring of various investment projects, with emphasis on climate finance and project finance transactions.
3. Collaborate and develop Climate Finance procurement documents to ensure that they adhere and align to compliance principles laid out in the following: The Constitution; National Treasury Supply Management Circulars, Directives and Guidelines; Supply Management policies; Public Finance Management Act (PFMA); Municipal Finance Management Act (MFMA); Preferential Procurement Policy Framework Act (PPPFA); Broad-based Black Economic Empowerment Act (BBBEE); Other applicable Procurement Laws and Public Law principles.
4. Provide legal opinions, draft and negotiate legal agreements and other legal documentation in respect of investment projects and programmes.
5. Review and draft agreements to facilitate that the business interests of the Climate Finance are protected and are legally sound.
6. Conduct advanced research into a wide variety of legal issues relating to various investment projects.
7. Provide advice and make legal inputs into the drafting of Appraisal Reports.
8. Serve and participate in various credit committees of the DBSA.
9. Prepare/review or negotiate full Term Sheets in respect of all investment projects with emphasis on project finance transactions
10. Draft, negotiate and provide advice concerning material agreements and oversee the review of non-material agreements to minimise risks and maximise legal rights in alignment with corporate risk procedures including grant, finance, consulting and security agreements.
11. Provide expert legal advice to business units across each phase of specific projects to create a sense of assuredness to investors and the Green Fund, including but not limited to: performing legal due diligences; evaluating transaction structures; developing and drafting legal documentation; mediating negotiations amongst various stakeholder parties; and providing the Green Fund with legal advice regarding the structuring of third-party service contractsLead negotiations with clients/co-Funders and stakeholders.
12. Draft/vet and review a wide variety of complex legal documents and agreements.
13. Provide substantial legal advice, support and opinions to various corporate support units of the DBSA.
14. Ensure compliance with various legislation, policies and regulations.
15. Monitor developments in the legal field and provide updates to colleagues and management.
16. Liaise with external attorneys and prepare comprehensive brief to attorneys where necessary and manage the transactions with external counterparts.
17. Assist in the execution and implementation of different investment projects from a legal and security point of view.
18. Provide advice on legal risks and complex legal matters and proactively provides solutions that consider multiple inputs, applicable risks and impacts.
19. Prepare brief and / or consult with external counsel / legal advisors on legal issues where necessary. Engage and manage outside counsel to ensure costs are within budget and supervise and coordinate work performed by outside counsel.
20. Knowledge sharing and on the job general legal training to other team members within Legal team and the wider Green Fund Fund personnel.
21. When and if necessary, manage, institute and defend legal proceedings on behalf of the Green Fund.
22. Perform other duties within in their stated expertise, as assigned
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| REQUIREMENTS FOR THIS JOB |
EXPERTISE & TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES
Minimum Requirements:
1. LLB degree or other relevant post graduate qualification
2. Admitted Attorney/Advocate of the High Court of South Africa
3. At least 5 years post qualification experience in Project/Corporate/Structured Finance transactions.
4. Knowledge and demonstrable experience in drafting and negotiating agreements, litigation and debt recovery.
Desirable Requirements:
1. Climate Financing / Infrastructure project development experience
2. A relevant post graduate qualification
REQUIRED PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Legal Knowledge
1. Extensive knowledge and understanding of the principles of DBSA.
2. Wide-ranging knowledge of industry best practice, and keeps abreast of, interprets and informs on developments in the area of new laws and regulations relevant to DBSA.
Legal Policy Knowledge
1. Ability to represent DBSA in negotiations and legal proceedings when required.
2. Ability to draft non-standard legal documents per procedures.
3. Ability to draft more sensitive policy and legal procedures to be followed by stakeholders of DBSA, and review and refine in response to inputs from relevant stakeholders, for approval.
4. Ability to understand legal rights and responsibilities and the possession of authority to make legal decisions.
5. Protects the organisation’s legal rights, utilizing a broad knowledge base of all major legal disciplines.
Presentation Skills
1. Knows how to deliver arguments persuasively by employing a range of advanced presentation techniques
2. (e.g. the appropriate use of body language, how to close a presentation so that the audience continues to think about the subject matter etc).
3. Has knowledge of various feedback mechanisms to check levels of audience understanding.
Business Acumen
1. Takes actions to fit business strategy.
2. Assesses and links short-term tasks in the context of long-term business strategies or perspectives.
3. Reviews own actions against the organisation's strategic plan; includes the big picture when considering possible opportunities or projects or thinks about long-term applications of current activities.
4. Understands the projected direction of the industry and how changes might impact the organisation.
Negotiations
1. Has an appreciation of cultural sensitivities and differences.
2. Effectively employs a variety of advanced behavioural/interpersonal competencies to control the negotiation situation.
3. Is able to take the lead in a variety of sensitive negotiation situations requiring high levels of tact and diplomacy.
4. Is able to place a discrete negotiation situation within the context of a broader long-term relationship and is not threatened by conceding ground to protect the longer-term interests of DBSA.
BEHAVIOURAL SKILLS
Teamwork and cooperation
1. Acts to promote a friendly climate and good morale, and resolves conflicts
2. Creates opportunities for cross-functional working.
3. Encourages others to network outside of their own team/department and learn from their experience.
Decisiveness
1. Makes timely decisions about complex issues even when some information is missing.
2. Makes decisions and stands by them even when they are controversial or unpopular.
3. Grasps critical business opportunities when they arise by making timely decisions.
Driving delivery of results
1. Identifies and implements a business opportunity that will have long term impact on the business. Monitors progress and adapts the plan if necessary, to ensure optimal benefit to the business.
2. Makes decisions, sets priorities, or chooses goals on the basis of inputs and outputs makes explicit considerations of potential profit, return on investment, or cost benefit analysis.
3. Based on cost benefit analysis, makes decisions of entrepreneurial risk nature
Leading and Empowering Others
1. Identifies long-term goals for the team and communicates them to team members, ensuring their buy in.
2. Sets a good example by personally exercising desired behavior; acts on values and beliefs.
3. Communicates a vision for the team and future success that inspires team members.
4. After assessing others competence, one delegates full authority and responsibility to others to do the task in their own way.
5. Ensures that competent employees are given opportunities to further their careers.
Leading & Managing Change
1. Gives teams responsibility to analyse, impact and execute change and to sustain it independently
2. Anticipates the need for change when not obvious and influences others to gain support.
3. Builds sustainable business capacity to embrace and thrive change.
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