Job Brief responsible for monitoring all legal affairs within CALS and xHub Addis. The Legal Officer handles both internal and external legal concerns and is tasked with doing everything in their power to keep their organization out of legal trouble.

Duties and Responsibilities

In order to ensure that the best legal action is taken for the organization, Legal Officers perform a variety of important tasks;

• Provide Legal Advice- Using oral or written platforms, Legal Officer will be expected to brief a team of staff members on legal issues, potential liabilities, and possible courses of action. This involves translating complicated legal jargon (gibberish) into a language that everyone can understand, as well as taking all possible legal problems into consideration before making any recommendations. All recommendations which the Legal Officer makes must be in complete compliance with the law, and must also strive to minimize risk for their organization.
• Process Documents- Any sort of legal work involves a great deal of paperwork. Legal Officers will frequently need to write and review settlement documents, contracts, agreements, stock certificates, and more. This task makes up a significant portion of the day-to-day work of Legal Officers and requires both focus and precision.
• Perform Research- Since laws and regulations are always changing and being modified, it’s up to the Legal Officer to continuously research legal resources such as articles, codes, statutes, judicial decisions, and more. Doing so will allow the Legal Officer to stay up to date on all current laws and make well-educated legal recommendations.
• Identify Risks- Ideally, legal issues should be gripped in the bud before they even begin. This is why it’s essential for Legal Officers to regularly analyze the actions and decisions of the company in order to identify problem areas, suggest alternative courses of action and mitigate risk as much as possible.
• Review and provide legal advice on MOUs, Contracts, and tender documents. Liaise with relevant departments to ensure that where legal risks have been identified, appropriate courses of action have been taken. 
• Provide legal protection and risk management advice to management especially on contract management. 

Job Requirements

• Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) or Master of Laws (LL.M.)
• 3 - 5 years of experience in a law firm or multinational organization (private sector or NGO). 
• Demonstrate knowledge of, and experience with laws dealing with commercial/contract administration and labor laws

How to Apply

Attach the following documents in one folder to the mentioned email 

• Tempo of degree
• Well detailed Resume and cover letter

With the subject line "Legal Officer Dec 2021" email your application to ephratag.xhubaddis@gmail.com