The job requires a competent Legal Practitioner with excellent company secretarial experience to lead the department.
You shall be expected to;
Developing and effectively implementing a robust corporate legal strategy.
- Providing secretarial services to the Board, Shareholders and Committee meetings including convening the meetings, preparation of agenda and papers as well as drafting of minutes and extracting resolutions thereafter.
- Effectively coordinating all Board activities and meetings, including the training and Induction of new Board members.
- Providing the Board and its committee with all requisite information and support to ensure that they effectively discharge their duties.
- Providing sound legal advice to the Board, management and staff on matters of corporate law and ethics in compliance with good corporate governance principles.
- Maintaining the corporate governance framework and ensure compliance across the entire organization.
- Managing the process of outsourcing external legal services and give appropriate legal instructions and adequate legal briefing to the appropriate external legal professionals.
- Overseeing the drafting and maintenance of all legal documentation to ensure that the interests of the company are adequately protected or safeguarded in various aspects and in all litigation.
- Administering the debt collection portfolio and ensure that litigation is instituted appropriately.
- Ensuring compliance with all statutory regulations through the maintenance of a robust system for record keeping of all statutory documents, as well as a timely submission of returns to various regulatory bodies and custody of the same.
- Ensuring effective implementation, tracking and reporting for all Board resolutions and compiling relevant reports (e.g., Directors’ Report) for input into the annual report
- Publishing the AGM notice in the local press and notifies all shareholders of the AGM date and place three weeks prior to the date.
- Checking for changes in the directorate and if any, lodges the CR 14 with the Registrar of Companies within a month of the changes.
- Drafting company resolutions and lodges the CR 11 with the Registrar of Companies within a month of the changes.
- Ensuring that the company complies with the ZSE listing rules
- Ensuring that the company complies with all relevant legislation.
To apply for this role you must hold Bachelor of Laws / Postgraduate qualification such as full CIS is preferred / MBA is an added advantage with working in an international or multinational organisation or alike with abilty to provide secretarial services to the Board, Shareholders and the Committee
Must be a member of the Law Society of Zimbabwe
Email CV to Colin Roberts – and Mirriam