SayPro LEGAL AND COMPLIANCE Management

SayPro manages and leads the Legal and Compliance unit in ensuring sound and effective corporate governance and legal risk management is effective. • Develop and implement legal strategy and legal risk mitigation plans, including Legal and Compliance unit Operational Plans. • Drive continuous innovation by ensuring the development, alignment and implementation of best practice Legal and Compliance services and protocols. • Oversee all new and ongoing litigations, and attend Court and Arbitration hearings as and when required. • Ensure legal compliance of contracts, MOUs and MOAs and Service Level Agreements (SLA); by ensuring that all contracts are legally vetted as legally sound before signature. • Review and provide legal opinions and advice on contracts and SLAs. • Ensure quality control and compliance with policies, procedures, regulations and standards. • Deal with the legal aspects of disciplinary inquiries, labour disputes and litigation on labour-related matters. • Drafting contracts and ensuring effective and efficient contract management processes are established and monitored. This includes ensuring the creation and maintenance of a comprehensive contracts register of all contracts. • Drafting of court papers and legal opinions, undertaking legal research as required by them to inform the decision making process and providing advice on various organisational matters. • Ensure and oversee the drafting of letters in response to complaints and letters of demand from attorneys representing external parties. • Prepare dossiers on both Court and Arbitration proceedings in defence of cases. • Consult with and instruct law firms to conduct legal business on behalf of the CEO and Board directives. • Planning and managing the financial and human resources of the Legal and Compliance unit. • Report and present to the Board on all litigious matters and allow the Board to make informed strategic decisions on such matters. • Provide legal advice/assistance in the formulation/review of policies and procedures to ensure compliance with all relevant legislation and its constitutional mandate. • Assist Executive Management in the interpretation of any legal documents and make recommendations and comments thereon, including legal advice or comments on reports that must be tabled, where required or requested. • Ensure that legal processes are timeously attended to, including serving of summons or applications, affidavits, the conclusion of the settlement agreement and attendance of Court hearings. • Ensuring support for stakeholders towards compliance with the policies, processes and procedures, rules and regulations, and relevant legislation. • Development and overseeing the implementation of Legal and Compliance Service Standards and business scorecard to achieve an overall Scorecard. • Perform risk assessments, including the analysis proposing mitigation controls for such risks for the Department and inclusion on the Strategic Risk registers. • Ensuring regular reporting on compliance and legal reporting responsibilities to the relevant authorities. • Create and maintain a culture of performance and efficiency, i.e., determining measurable indicators and incorporating project management methodologies and frameworks within the Legal and Compliance business unit’s daily operations. • Ensure sound relations with the stakeholders

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