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Senior Legal Advisor (Midrand)
POSTED BY: Development Bank of Southern Africa
REF:DBSA 147
Date Published:Wednesday, March 17, 2021
Date of Expiration:Monday, September 13, 2021 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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| Full-Time |
| MAIN JOB DESCRIPTION |
Closing Date 2021/03/26
Reference Number DBS210316-1
Job Title Senior Legal Advisor (Midrand)
Job Grade 18
Job Type Classification Permanent
Location - Town / City Midrand
Location - Province Gauteng
Location - Country South Africa
JOB DESCRIPTION
To proactively advise and support clients on the legal aspects of financing activities of DBSA. Ensuring that a particular situation, action, initiative or investment does not have an adverse reputational or other negative consequence for the DBSA. Provide guidance and leadership to more junior legal advisors.
KEY PERFORMANCE AREAS
As a member of core project teams, assist Investment Officers in the structuring of various investment projects, with emphasis on project finance transactions.
1. Conduct comprehensive legal due diligence investigations.
2. Conduct advanced research into a wide variety of legal issues relating to various investment projects.
3. Provide advice and make legal inputs into the drafting of Appraisal Reports.
4. Serve and participate in various credit committees of the DBSA.
5. Prepare/review or negotiate full Term Sheets in respect of all investment projects with emphasis on project finance transactions
6. Lead negotiations with clients/co-Funders and stakeholders.
7. Draft/vet and review a wide variety of complex legal documents and agreements.
8. Provide substantial legal advice, support and opinions to various corporate support units of the DBSA.
9. Ensure compliance with various legislation, policies and regulations.
10. Monitor developments in the legal field and provide updates to colleagues and management.
11. Liaise with external attorneys and prepare comprehensive brief to attorneys where necessary and manage the transactions with external counterparts.
12. Assist in the execution and implementation of different investment projects from a legal and security point of view.
13. Provide general legal support to the operational and corporate small units of the DBSA Key Measures
14. Performance against agreed targets
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| REQUIREMENTS FOR THIS JOB |
QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE
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. Private Public Partnership experience will be an added advantage.
5. Any experience in Municipal Finance experience will be an added advantage.
6. A minimum of 5 years post qualification experience in a commercial/finance/banking or corporate law environment gained at a commercial banking, specialist law firm/ corporate or similar institution.
Skills & Ability
1. Dispute/conflict resolution skills
2. Research skills coupled with excellent communication skills.
3. Good relational skills (an ability to get along with different kinds of people in a professional environment)
EXPERTISE & TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES
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 the court of law 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 (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.).
2. 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. Anticipates possible responses to different initiatives.
5. 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.
REQUIRED PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES
BEHAVIOURAL SKILLS
Information Seeking and Analysis
1. Breaks down problems into simple lists of tasks or activities
2. Investigates the problem or situation beyond routine questioning.
Self Awareness & Self Control
1. Ignores angering actions and continues a conversation or task. May leave temporarily to withhold emotions, then return immediately to continue
2. Feels strong emotions in the course of a conversation or other task, such as anger, extreme frustration, or high stress; holds the emotions back, and continues to act calmly.
Decisiveness
1. Acts promptly to address urgent needs, taking quickly those decisions which need to be taken. • Assesses available information to reach a clear view of key options and selects the best option at the time.
2. Thinks on their feet when necessary.
3. Changes his/her perception, ideas or alters normal procedures to fit a specific situation to get a job done and/or meet company goals. Impact and Influence • Includes careful preparation of data for presentation.
4. Makes two or more different arguments or points in a presentation or a discussion.
Achievement Orientation
1. Focuses on new or more effective ways of improving own work and meeting targets.
2. Focuses on raising quality, customer satisfaction and revenues.
3. Makes specific changes to systems and processes in order to improve efficiency and quality.
4. Formulates own objectives and action plans in order to achieve a measurable improvement in the future.
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