# Legal Assistant

**Company:** [Tatu City](http://jobs.workable.com/companies/qcR7dmBMkzBx92LjgJfYWJ.md)
**Location:** Tatu City, Kenya
**Workplace:** on site
**Department:** Legal Department

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## Description

As Legal Assistant, you will provide general legal and strategic support to the in-house legal team. You will be responsible for executing objectives, strategies and action plans of the in-house legal team

**Specific responsibilities**

-   Develop, maintain, and optimize the legal team’s document and knowledge management systems (e.g. Egnyte and Contract Express).
-   Digitize, classify, and securely store contracts, pleadings, transaction documents, and correspondence.
-   Ensure compliance with data protection laws (GDPR, Kenya Data Protection Act) and internal IT security protocols.
-   Digitally manage contract lifecycle including version control, e-signatures and automated renewals/expiry alerts.
-   Integrate legal workflows into project management tools.
-   Ensure transactions are tracked digitally and closed within agreed timelines.
-   Prepare board-ready presentations for meetings.
-   Initiating and monitoring payment of invoices to external legal counsels on the procurement management system;
-   Reviewing critical dates and evaluating documentation terms;
-   Drafting of generic correspondence;
-   Follow up on deadlines, commitments made, actions taken and coordination and communication to the team at Tatu City regarding all tasks assigned to the legal team;
-   Consistently complete tasks in accordance with agreed deadlines and to the highest quality standard, meeting or exceeding expectations of internal and external stakeholders;
-   Embrace accountability, humility and commitment to Rendeavour’s business goals; and
-   Support the in-house legal team in additional support tasks.

## Requirements

-   A minimum of two years’ experience working as a paralegal working in a busy law firm.
-   University Degree or Diploma relevant to the position
-   Well versed in Microsoft Office and document management systems.
-   Familiarity with real estate and corporate or commercial law is an added advantage