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JOB NAME

Legal Advisor [GP ZA (Primary)]

POSTED BY: Industrial Development Corporation
REF:IDC 169
Date Published:08 November 2021
Date of Expiration:07 May 2022 EXPIRED
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LOCATION OF THIS JOB

South Africa | GP ZA (PRIMARY) in South Africa

INDUSTRY

DEVELOPMENT FINANCE INSTITUTIONS

JOB TYPE

Contract

MAIN JOB DESCRIPTION

Closing Date of Advert 25/11/2021
Job Title Legal Advisor [GP ZA (Primary)]
Organizational Unit PICC Support Unit
Job Type Contract
Category Client Management
Education Level Honours Degree
Location GP ZA (Primary)

JOB DESCRIPTION
A position exists within the Presidential Infrastructure Coordinating Commission department for Legal Advisor at our Sandton Offices and Pretoria. This position will be based on a 3 year (36 months) fixed term contract.

JOB PURPOSE
The purpose of this job is to ensure that the Sponsors of planned infrastructure projects registered with ISA have identified and complied with all relevant regulatory requirements and contractual requirements to complete their Early Business Cases and Intermediate Business Cases.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
1. Ensuring that the Sponsors’ business cases comply with relevant laws and regulations;
2. Providing legal advice to the Sponsors on projects’ commercial and contractual issues;
3. Ensuring that the Sponsor is not incurring unacceptable levels of legal risk or opening themselves to legal challenge.
4. Briefing and managing the deliverables of external legal firms in obtaining specific legal advice.
5. Providing support to the ISA Sector Leads who engage directly with the Sponsors, and will work closely with the ISA Business Case Facilitators and ISA Financial Analysts.
6. Analysing and mitigating measures of all regulatory and contractual risks to the project at each stage of project preparation.

REQUIREMENTS FOR THIS JOB

EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE:
1. A practicing attorney with a minimum eight (8) years’ relevant legal experience in contracts preparation, structuring, procurement and negotiations for infrastructure projects in South Africa.
2. Knowledge and understanding of the regulatory environment in which public sector infrastructure projects are developed and executed.
3. A senior commercial legal role in the preparation team of at least two (2) large infrastructure projects that have successfully achieved financial close within the last eight (8) years.
4. Understanding and knowledge in the preparation and negotiation of project finance commercial contracts.
5. Exposure and experience in having clients from the banking sector, the public sector and private investors.
6. Work experience of this nature in other jurisdictions will be an advantage.

TECHNICAL/FUCNTIONAL COMPETENCIES
1. Contract drafting
2. Legal interpretation
3. Commercial negotiations
4. Project finance commercial structuring
5. Legal risk mitigation planning
6. Regulatory and commercial risk analysis

BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES
1. Negotiation and influencing
2. Attention to detail
3. Planning and Organization
4. Inter-personal skills
5. Communication skills
6. Change agent and strategic thinker

QUALIFICATIONS
1. Minimum Post-graduate Law Degree (4 Year qualification)
2. A relevant higher qualification will be an added advantage.

SPECIAL REQUIREMENT:
As our entity (IDC) provides financing and funding, the need to ensure Trust, Honesty and Integrity in all financial and non-financial activities must be above reproach