Manager: Legal Advisory Services, Pretoria

Providing Legal advice

• Render professional legal advice to ensure all actions/resolutions are complying with the statutory requirements.
• Interact with other spheres of government in developing sound working relations and to minimise areas of dispute or potential dispute in the legal context.
• Provide legal advice/assistance in the formulation of policies and procedures to ensure that policies comply with all relevant legislation including the constitutional mandate.
• Interact with external legal advisors with regards to any legal matters.
• Review legal documents, instruments, or other material, identifying important issues, similarities and inconsistencies and advice accordingly.
• Prepare legal opinions/advice on a wide range of law issues.
• Litigation management and review of the recommendations of the Panel Attorneys and Law Advisors with regard to court cases and legal administrative affairs.
• Provide legal advice on human resources matters and assists in reviewing administrative decisions.
• Administer programmes of legal technical assistance.
• Serve on various legal committees.
• Give advice regarding problems of interpretation, legal liability, exercising of powers, other legal matters and the efficient functioning of the legal/judicial system.
• Prepare case files, draft legal documents for the Attorney/ Law Advisors to provide formal legal advice.
• Provide input to subordinates to prepare and draft legal documents.

• Give written instruction to subordinates to comply with review directives.
• Ensure that cases relating to administrative appeals of the Fund, are researched and prepared accordingly.
• Authorize payment of valid claims and determine method of payment.
• Provide advice to the Senior Management and the Line Managers across the range of the Department's legal interests, risks and obligations.
• Contribute a legality assurance perspective to the Fund's strategic and governance processes, particularly the executive decision-making process.
• Build understanding of legal issues, risks and obligations through advice, communications and training, especially for other legal services staff and managers.

Preparing legal documents and reports

• Draft reports or briefs on legal or legal policy.
• Research applicable legislation and principles relating to the legal document in question, achieving compliance.
• Draft various legal communications based on information provided, with proper consideration to legal implications of a response.
• Provide inputs within the stipulated time frames in the compilation of annual audit report at the financial year-end.
• Provide legal advice or comments on reports that has to be tabled before management.
• Compile interim audit reports required by the Senior Manager: Legal Services during the year, highlighting potential risk areas and making legal recommendations.

Managing and developing staff

• Monitor performance of direct reports, check that all is aligned with planned targets.
• Allocate work according to the urgency of the matter and according to the individual workload, expertise, and developmental needs of the individual.
• Identify development and succession planning requirements.
• Monitor that outputs achieve the business unit requirements.