Vacancy title:
Legal Counsel-Internal Affairs

[Type: FULL_TIME, Industry: Public Administration, and Government, Category: Legal]

Jobs at:
Zambia Information and Communications Technology Authority ( ZICTA )

Deadline of this Job:
Tuesday, May 6 2025

Duty Station:
Choma | Choma | Zambia

Summary
Date Posted: Tuesday, April 29 2025, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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JOB DETAILS:

1.0 JOB PURPOSE

To provide support to the Manager Legal – Internal Affairs on matters relating to the internal affairs of the Authority.

2.0 SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES

Provides advice and guidance to the Authority on all internal matters affecting the Authority thus:-

a) Ensure that all internal policies and procedures comply with relevant legislation   and make recommendations for change where necessary;
b) Provides advice and guidance to the Authority on staff matters, procurement and insurance;
c) Attends to drafting and reviewing Agreements and MOUs to which the Authority is a party or has in interest;
d) Monitor the hard copy repository of all executed Agreements and MOUs entered by the Authority;
e) Monitor the electronic Repository of executed Agreements and MoUs;
f) Attends to litigation on matters arising out of the internal operations of the Authority;
g) Provides advice and guidance on debt recovery issues arising from the Authority’s internal operations and attends to internal debt recovery where              appropriate;
h) Attends to conveyancing in matters where the Authority has an interest by drafting, lodging all conveyancing instruments;
i) Reviews correspondence from all departments concerning internal affairs, analyzing legal implications and compliance with internal and external                rules  and regulations; and
j) Undertakes any other duties that may be assigned in relation to the role.

Requirements

3.0     ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS AND REQUIRED ATTRIBUTES

a) General Education:
Full Grade 12 School Certificate

b) Academic/Professional Qualifications
i. Bachelor’s Degree in law
ii. Post – Graduate Diploma in Legislative Drafting
iii. Member of the Law Association of Zambia with valid practicing certificate

c) Work Experience
At least 3 years post admission work experience in a  similar job.

d) Core Competencies

i. Analysis of business information, data and statistics relating to own department for easy understanding by management.

ii. Choosing and applying correct analytical tools and techniques to analyze data and information systematically.
iii. Ability to apply analytical thinking to solve moderately complex problems
iv. Ability to make decisions within broad parameters and make recommendations to effect change to procedures and practices.

4.0 TENURE

The position of Legal Counsel – Internal Affairs is on Permanent and Pensionable employment.

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 36

Level of Education: bachelor degree

Job application procedure

• Applicants should submit their applications by attaching their latest Curriculum Vitae with daytime mobile phone number and certified copies of certificates via the ZICTA job portal at www.zicta.zm. The closing date for receiving the applications is Tuesday, May 6, 2025, at 17:00 hours.
• Please address your application to the Director General, Zambia Information and Communications Technology Authority and ONLY shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
• To apply for this job please visit zicta.mcidirecthire.com.

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