Senior Manager: Corporate Legal Advisory - D4

KEY PERFORMANCE AREAS Serve as the deputy principal legal advisor to the CEO on strategic, operational, governance, and regulatory matters. Analyse complex legal risks and provide expert recommendations, clear option assessments, and well-reasoned decision implications. Provide legal input into the organisation’s Strategic Plan, Annual Performance Plan (APP), organisational policies, and major initiatives. Monitor, interpret and assess all applicable legislation, regulations, directives, circulars and binding public-sector frameworks (e.g., Constitution, PFMA/MFMA, Treasury Regulations, Public Procurement Framework, POPIA, Labour legislation, etc). Assess regulatory changes and advise the CEO on strategic, operational, governance and compliance implications. Ensure organisational compliance with statutory obligations, reporting requirements, and regulatory deadlines. Draft and review governance instruments including delegations of authority (DoA), Board/Committee charters, policy frameworks, and compliance standards. Oversee the legal risk management framework, maintain the legal risk register, and escalate high impact risks to the CEO and Audit/Risk Committees. Conduct impact assessments, recommend mitigation strategies, and ensure integration of legal controls into business processes. Provide oversight on legal governance practices, including the application of King IV, PFMA compliance, and ethical leadership obligations. Advise on potential conflicts of interest, irregularities, or governance breakdowns. Draft, review, and negotiate high-risk, complex, or strategically significant contracts, MOUs, partnership agreements, funding agreements, SLAs, and procurement contracts. Ensure all contractual commitments comply with PFMA, National Treasury Regulations, Supply Chain Management (SCM) frameworks, and organisational delegations. Provide expert advice on issues such as liability limits, indemnities, IP rights, confidentiality, warranties, termination, and dispute clauses. Manage all litigation matters for and/or against SAMSA and advise the CEO in relation thereto. Provide legal advice to the CEO and the organisation on all legal matters confronting SAMSA. Oversee strategy for defending or pursuing legal actions, including the appointment and management of external counsel. Review pleadings, affidavits, legal opinions, and settlement proposals, recommending legally and financially defensible positions. Ensure proper legal compliance in evidence handling, representation, and documentation. Ensure policies are legally sound, implementable, and aligned to national legislation, governance frameworks and organisational operating realities. Provide legal vetting for public submissions, regulatory comments, and policy positions the organisation adopts. Liaise with government departments, regulators, oversight bodies, Parliamentary committees, industry bodies, legal forums, and external counsel on behalf of the CEO, ensuring SAMSA’s legal position is ac