Legal Associate at Food For Education

About the Role

The Legal Associate provides comprehensive legal support and guidance to the organization across a wide range of legal and business matters. This role requires a strong understanding of corporate, regulatory, commercial, and employment law. The Legal Associate will work closely with the various departments to ensure the organization's legal and regulatory compliance.

Key Responsibilities

• Advise the organisation on a wide variety of legal and compliance matters.
• Responsible for conducting extensive legal research, and providing opinions on various legal matters
• Structuring, drafting, reviewing, interpreting, and negotiating a wide range of commercial contracts and other legal documents, as well as overseeing compliance of these contracts by all parties.
• Manage the contract lifecycle, including contract tracking, renewals, and terminations
• developing and reviewing company policies
• Assist with corporate governance matters.
• conducting due diligence on all partners of the organisation.
• advise on general legal compliance matters, including regulatory, intellectual property matters, employment matters, and non-profit law among others,
• advise all relevant departments on pending legislation or changes in relevant laws and statutes to ensure the company’s compliance in these areas, in order to mitigate or minimize compliance risks.
• Conduct regular compliance audits in order to identify weaknesses and provide recommendations to resolve any non-compliance issues to relevant stakeholders. 
• Responsible for collaborating and building valuable relationships with outside counsel, as well as setting priorities for, overseeing, and supervising the performance of outside counsel.  
• Resolving issues that arise in existing commercial relationships and handling pre-litigation legal disputes and inquiries.
• Support internal investigations or other legal or administrative proceedings and manage any litigation matters.
• Other duties may be assigned from time to time by the head of the Legal.

Qualifications and experience

• Advocate of the High Court of Kenya
• Minimum 5 years experience in corporate commercial law
• In-house counsel experience will be an added advantage.

Personal Attributes 

• Superior written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to understand, summarize, and convey complex information in readily understandable terms.
• Analytical and detail-oriented.
• Excellent interpersonal and negotiation skills.  
• Good organizational, planning, and time management skills.
• Result-oriented: Takes on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy, and enthusiasm.
• Proficiency in the use of relevant computer applications/commonly used packages like MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Experience in the use of various legal software applications would be valuable. 
• A good team player: Able to cultivate excellent working relationships with colleagues and collaborate effectively as part of a team of professionals while still capable of working well independently. 
• Able to represent F4E effectively and professionally to external stakeholders.