Legal Officer job at Zambia Environmental Management Agency
224 Days Ago
Linkedid Twitter Share on facebook

Vacancy title:
Legal Officer

[ Type: FULL TIME , Industry: Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources , Category: Legal ]

Jobs at:

Zambia Environmental Management Agency

Deadline of this Job:
Thursday, October 10 2024 

Duty Station:
Within Zambia , Lusaka, South - Central Africa

Summary
Date Posted: Thursday, September 26 2024, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

Similar Jobs in Zambia
Learn more about Zambia Environmental Management Agency
Zambia Environmental Management Agency jobs in Zambia

JOB DETAILS:
4.1 Job Purpose
To provide legal services to the Agency in order to protect its legal interests and promote its mandate.

4.2 Main Duties and Responsibilities (Without Limitation)
• Undertakes litigation on behalf of the Agency, with the express approval of the Agency Secretary.
• Advise management on the provisions of the Law on enforcement and prosecution under various regulations of the EMA No. 12 of 2011 and to ensure good environmental conduct by stakeholders.
• Ensures that all legal documents prepared by the Agency are properly drafted to ensure efficiency, effectiveness and success in court.
• Advises management on legality of environmental management transactions by stakeholders/clients to ensure compliance with the Environmental Management Act No. 12 of 2011 and its Regulations.
• Studies court decisions and recommends changes in wording of environmental management documents and contracts to protect the institution from undue claims
• Compiles/prepares management and adhoc reports for information and decision-making purposes.
• Handles cases pending before the Courts of law and involving the institution.
• Reviews the performance of subordinates to ensure that such performance meets management standards/expectations.

4.3 Minimum Qualifications and Experience
• Grade twelve (12) Certificate
• Degree in Law (LLB) with current legal Practicing Certificate from the Law Association of Zambia (LAZ)
• Three years post bar admission experience

Job Experience: No Requirements

Work Hours: 8


Experience in Months:

Level of Education:
Bachelor Degree

Job application procedure
Interested in applying for this job? Click here to submit your application now.
• 7. Application Procedure & Deadline For Receipt Of Applications
• Interested persons are requested to submit electronic or hard copies of their curriculum vitae with three readily contactable references, copies of relevant academic/professional certificates and an application letter stating their motivation, to the address below:
• THE DIRECTOR GENERAL
ZAMBIA ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT AGENCY
CORNER OF SUEZ & CHURCH ROADS
P. O. BOX 35131
LUSAKA
• The envelope or email containing above application documents to be clearly labelled with the job applied for.
• THE CLOSING DATE FOR ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS IS 4th OCTOBER, 2024
• ZEMA IS AN EQUAL-OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER AND AS SUCH, FEMALE CANDIDATES ARE ESPECIALLY ENCOURAGED TO APPLY


All Jobs

QUICK ALERT SUBSCRIPTION

Job Info
Job Category: Legal jobs in Zambia
Job Type: Full-time
Deadline of this Job: Thursday, October 10 2024
Duty Station: Lusaka
Posted: 26-09-2024
No of Jobs: 1
Start Publishing: 26-09-2024
Stop Publishing (Put date of 2030): 26-09-2066
Apply Now

Caution: Never Pay Money in a Recruitment Process.

Some smart scams can trick you into paying for Psychometric Tests.
22.148MBMemory Usage132msRequest Duration
Joomla! Version4.4.10
PHP Version8.1.32
Identityguest
Response200
Templatejl_education_pro
Database
Server
mysql
Version
10.5.29-MariaDB
Collation
latin1_swedish_ci
Conn Collation
utf8mb4_general_ci
$_GET
[]
$_POST
[]
$_SESSION
array:1 [ "joomla" => "***redacted***" ]
$_COOKIE
array:1 [ "1deb24708f7a51ca02b447b7f6862276" => "c6ffa1184fa4c4141323c349d790eac7" ]
$_SERVER
array:64 [ "USER" => "greatzambiajobs" "HOME" => "/home/greatzambiajobs" "SCRIPT_NAME" => "/in...
session
array:3 [ "counter" => 4 "timer" => array:3 [ "start" => 1746780093 "last" => 1746780096...
registry
array:3 [ "data" => [] "initialized" => false "separator" => "." ]
user
array:18 [ "id" => 0 "name" => null "username" => null "email" => null "password" => "***r...
jsjobcur_usr
0
jsjobconfig_dft
array:171 [ "actk" => "0" "applybuttonredirecturl" => "http://www.greatzambiajobs.com/how-to-app...
JSItemid
"190"
  • afterLoad (4.12MB) (26.84ms)
  • afterInitialise (11.13MB) (81.15ms)
  • afterCache (5.76MB) (23.95ms)
  • 1 x afterInitialise (11.13MB) (61.26%)
    81.15ms
    1 x afterLoad (4.12MB) (20.26%)
    26.84ms
    1 x afterCache (5.76MB) (18.08%)
    23.95ms
19 statements were executed2.22ms32.38KB
  • SELECT @@SESSION.sql_mode;61μs1.57KB/libraries/vendor/joomla/database/src/Mysqli/MysqliDriver.php:334Copy
  • SELECT `data` FROM `icop0_session` WHERE `session_id` = ?136μs1.63KBParams/libraries/vendor/joomla/session/src/Handler/DatabaseHandler.php:261Copy
  • SELECT `session_id` FROM `icop0_session` WHERE `session_id` = :session_id LIMIT 197μs1.63KBParams/libraries/src/Session/MetadataManager.php:187Copy
  • UPDATE `icop0_session` SET `guest` = :guest , `time` = :time , `userid` = :user_id , `username` = :username , `client_id` = :client_id WHERE `session_id` = :session_id87μs992BParams/libraries/src/Session/MetadataManager.php:316Copy
  • SELECT `id`,`rules` FROM `icop0_viewlevels`114μs1.55KB/libraries/src/Access/Access.php:955Copy
  • SELECT `b`.`id` FROM `icop0_usergroups` AS `a` LEFT JOIN `icop0_usergroups` AS `b` ON `b`.`lft` <= `a`.`lft` AND `b`.`rgt` >= `a`.`rgt` WHERE `a`.`id` = :guest106μs1.64KBParams/libraries/src/Access/Access.php:868Copy
  • SELECT `value` FROM `icop0_admintools_storage` WHERE `key` = 'cparams'140μs856B/administrator/components/com_admintools/src/Helper/Storage.php:120Copy
  • SELECT `option`,`view`,`query` FROM `icop0_admintools_wafexceptions`103μs960B/plugins/system/admintools/src/Utility/Cache.php:196Copy
  • SELECT `params` FROM `icop0_extensions` WHERE `type` = 'plugin' AND `folder` = 'system' AND `element` = 'admintools'140μs2.09KB/plugins/system/admintools/src/Utility/RescueUrl.php:324Copy
  • SELECT * FROM icop0_rsform_config164μs1.5KB/administrator/components/com_rsform/helpers/config.php:52Copy
  • SELECT `value` FROM icop0_acym_configuration WHERE `name` = 'level'69μs856B/plugins/system/acymtriggers/acymtriggers.php:639Copy
  • SELECT `value` FROM icop0_acym_configuration WHERE `name` = 'active_cron'50μs856B/plugins/system/acymtriggers/acymtriggers.php:639Copy
  • SELECT `value` FROM icop0_acym_configuration WHERE `name` = 'cron_next'50μs856B/plugins/system/acymtriggers/acymtriggers.php:639Copy
  • SELECT `value` FROM icop0_acym_configuration WHERE `name` = 'queue_type'45μs856B/plugins/system/acymtriggers/acymtriggers.php:639Copy
  • SELECT *,(subpath=1 AND LOCATE(sef_link, '%2Fjobs%2Fjob-detail%2Fjob-Legal-Officer-job-at-Zambia-Environmental-Management-Agency-66226%2F')=1) inSub FROM icop0_jlexblock WHERE ((mt_fullsite=1 AND mt_index=1) OR ((`sef_link`='%2Fjobs%2Fjob-detail%2Fjob-Legal-Officer-job-at-Zambia-Environmental-Management-Agency-66226%2F' OR (subpath=1 AND LOCATE(sef_link, '%2Fjobs%2Fjob-detail%2Fjob-Legal-Officer-job-at-Zambia-Environmental-Management-Agency-66226%2F')=1)) AND mt_fullsite=0)) AND published=1 ORDER BY mt_area DESC,id ASC186μs4.23KB/plugins/system/jlexblock/jlexblock.php:150Copy
  • SELECT *,(subpath=1 AND LOCATE(sef_link, '%2Fjobs%2Fjob-detail%2Fjob-Legal-Officer-job-at-Zambia-Environmental-Management-Agency-66226%2F')=1) inSub FROM icop0_jlexblock WHERE ((mt_fullsite=1 AND mt_index=1) OR ((`sef_link`='%2Fjobs%2Fjob-detail%2Fjob-Legal-Officer-job-at-Zambia-Environmental-Management-Agency-66226%2F' OR (subpath=1 AND LOCATE(sef_link, '%2Fjobs%2Fjob-detail%2Fjob-Legal-Officer-job-at-Zambia-Environmental-Management-Agency-66226%2F')=1) OR `list_var` LIKE '%com_jsjobs%') AND mt_fullsite=0)) AND published=1 ORDER BY mt_area DESC,id ASC265μs4.25KB/plugins/system/jlexblock/jlexblock.php:150Copy
  • SELECT s.id, s.template, s.home, s.title AS long_title, s.params FROM icop0_template_styles AS s WHERE s.client_id = 0 AND s.template = 'jl_education_pro' ORDER BY s.id138μs3.7KB/libraries/gantry5/src/classes/Gantry/Joomla/StyleHelper.php:69Copy
  • SELECT `session_id` FROM `icop0_session` WHERE `session_id` = ?118μs1.63KBParams/libraries/vendor/joomla/session/src/Handler/DatabaseHandler.php:291Copy
  • UPDATE `icop0_session` SET `data` = ? , `time` = ? WHERE `session_id` = ?154μs912BParams/libraries/vendor/joomla/session/src/Handler/DatabaseHandler.php:318Copy