HR /Legal Officer at Myrtle Management Consultants

Job Description

HR Responsibilities

• Responsible for recruiting, screening, interviewing, and placing workers.
• Handles employee relations, payroll, benefits, and training.
• Consult with executives on strategic planning and link a company's management with its employees.
• Oversee payroll, pensions, and benefits administration
• Creating job descriptions and advertisements
• Organizing staff training sessions and activities
• Monitoring staff performance and attendance
• Advising line managers and other employees on employment law and the employer’s own employment policies and procedures
• Ensuring candidates have the right to work at the organisation •
• Negotiating salaries, contracts, working conditions or redundancy packages with staff and representatives.
• Consult with executives on strategic planning, and link a company's management with its employees.

Legal Responsibilities 

• Advising the company on the management of legal risks associated with revenue-generating contracts, corporate services, governance, dispute management, and general advisory matters
• Drafting, reviewing, and negotiating documents
• Leading negotiations to protect business interests
• Developing and reviewing legal frameworks
• Acting as the team lead in assigned legal work, driving execution for approved action plans
• Collaborating externally with legal firms, and driving creative legal dispute management solutions
•  Provide support for company secretarial functions including, preparing meeting agendas, attending and taking minutes of meetings, following up to ensure completion of meeting action points

Other Administrative Activities 

• Coordinate/ handle and maintain cleaners and ensure they are available and performing their duties. Interface with the cleaning company on matters arising.
• Coordinate with security, and ensure the right staff is on duty and effectively carrying out their duties.
• Ensure the provision of work tools for new staff including laptops, Identity cards, and complimentary cards.
• Make travel arrangements for staff/partners.
• Coordinate work logistics between the various BD departments.
• Make requests and pursue the provision of office supplies.
• When required, raise bank instructions, and take them to the bank.
• Follow up with network providers.
• Provide support to all business units.

Qualifications

• LLB Degree in Law 
• 5 years plus cognate work experience in a law firm, experience with labour law, and working as a Human Resource lead in a reputable and structured business environment.
• Relevant professional qualifications such as Institute of Chartered Secretaries & Administrators, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, CIPM, CIPD, etc. an added advantage.
• Ability to listen, negotiate and influence all categories of people and act calmly and reasonably even under pressure
• He / She must possess a high level of expertise in supporting their delivery of legal services to clients in areas such as Corporate Secretarial, HR, Administrative, Governance, and Regulatory, Legal Advice, Corporate Documents, including, but not limited to Company Law, Client, and Community relationship service, etc.
• Demonstrates highly effective and robust stakeholder management and organization skills.
• Displays high-level intelligence in business and client management portfolios.
• He / She can recognize and evaluate relevant facts and legal concepts.
• Must possess interpersonal skills including but not limited to resolving conflicts, negotiating, and relating well with various types of clients.
• Must have good secretarial skills and an ability to understand and manage complex legal entity documentation.
• Good reporting skills and absolute command of Microsoft Office applications.