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Date Posted: Wednesday, March 05 2025, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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Job Description
Job Purpose
To provide strategic legal guidance, ensure regulatory compliance, and protect the company’s legal and financial interests in accordance with applicable laws, regulations, policies and procedures. The General Counsel oversees all legal matters and activities of the Directorate. Additionally, the role serves as a key advisor to the Board and executive team on legal implications of strategic decisions, ensuring that the company operates within the legal framework while achieving its business objectives.

Primary Roles and Accountabilities:
• Responsible for the strategic direction of all legal & litigation matters involving the Company’s operations and business and acts as a Chief Legal Advisor to the Board and Management.
• Co-ordinates and facilitates the development of systems, processes and strategies for identifying, measuring, mitigating, monitoring and managing legal risks in the Company.
• Provides leadership to the Legal team and coordinates the operations of the directorate on a day-to-day basis to ensure sound, robust, cost-effective legal services rendered to the Company.
• Maintains and keeps in safe custody complete and accurate statutory registers and other legal records and ensures confidentiality of such records.
• Provides legal advice to the Board of Directors, the Chief Executive Officer and Management and staff.
• Provides and co-ordinates the provision of legal advice on all matters affecting the Company, including general decision making; Investment appraisals and decisions, interpretation and implementation of the applicable laws
• Provides legal Opinions;
• Identifies, analyses, interprets and advises management and the Board on changes in the legal environment relevant to the Company to ensure high levels of legal compliance.
• Represents the Company and Directorate on various designated internal and external strategic operational and consultative committees to drive the Company’s agenda and business objectives and enhance the Company’s compliance to all applicable laws and regulations.
• Coordinates the provision of technical expertise to user departments in the delivery of service, to ensure user departments make informed decisions in the delivery of service, in order to reduce legal risks exposure to the Company
• Participates, oversees, and coordinates the negotiation, standards of drafting, vetting, review, execution and implementation of different types of contracts involving the Company to ensure enforceability of contracts and responsiveness to the Company’s needs.
• Participates in contract negotiations.
• Drafts/Reviews legal documents without limitation, including employment contracts, commercial agreements, transaction documents, procurement documents.
• Represents the Company in all legal claims and suits.
• Manages external Counsel assigned with conduct of Company disputes.
• Monitors the Company’s compliance with Laws, Regulations and internal procedures in general.
• Ensures that the Company complies with its Articles of Association.
• Participates in the formulation of policies and strategic plans of the Company.
• Ensures that ZCCM-IH’s inventions are patented, and its rights are protected and assess ZCCM-IH legal documents and ensure legal protection of the Company.
• Manages the legal Directorate Budget
• Provides continuous leadership, supervision, training and development of the legal staff ensuring an effective and motivated team.
• In conjunction with Human Resource and Administration Directorate ensures the Legal team is appropriately staffed.

Job Requirements
Relevant Qualifications
Considerable competences at senior management level are required to understand and apply advanced policies, practices, procedures, concepts and principles in order to effectively perform in this role.
• General Certification of Education (GCE) or equivalent with Credit or Better in Five (5) subjects, Mathematics and English included
• LLB Degree
• Master’s degree in Law or business-related field
• Practicing certificate
• Paid up Membership with the Law Association of Zambia (LAZ)

Professional Work Experience
• Not less than Ten (10) years’ experience in legal practice at a senior management level in an organisation of similar size and scope in legal complexity or reputable law firm.
• High level experience in stakeholder management.
• Proven written and oral skills and ability to distil and communicate complex matters at the highest levels.
• Group holding company experience will be an added advantage.

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 120

Level of Education: Associate Degree

Job application procedure
• Applications clearly marked ‘GENERAL COUNSEL’ together with copies of certificates and a detailed curriculum vitae should reach the undersigned not later than 18th March 2025. Applications should be addressed to the Chief Executive Officer.
• To apply for this job please visit zccmjobs.mcidirecthire.com. 

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