Legal Associate Job Food for Education

Legal Associate Job. Legal Jobs In Kenya

Reporting to: Head of Legal
Direct reports: None

About Food for Education

Food for Education (F4E) is an African-led, women-led social enterprise that uses technology, smart operations, and logistics to provide low-cost, high-quality meals that improve nutrition and education outcomes for primary school children in Kenya.

We are growing quickly. Our mission is to scale models that prioritise efficient supply chain management and sustainable sourcing, so we can continue lowering the cost of school lunches. We have delivered over 78,000,000 meals since 2012 and are expanding to reach our goal of serving at least 1 Million public primary school students in Kenya every day by 2027.

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Our Values

At Food for Education, our values are guiding principles that provide us with purpose and direction and set the tone for our interactions with all stakeholders:

• Build with excellence and curiosity: We’re not afraid to try new things and iterate as much as we can to find the best and most efficient way to get results;
• Be the change you seek: We acknowledge that continuous improvement is a shared responsibility;
• We do what we say; and say what we do: We embrace an ownership mentality;
• Ask why; and commit: Share openly, question respectfully and commit fully. When we understand the why, we are able to work with a purpose.

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.
• 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.

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