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 teamSpecific 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. RequirementsA 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
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
Tatu City is a 5,000-acre new city on Nairobi’s doorstep with homes, schools, businesses, a shopping district, a medical clinic, nature areas and recreation for more than 250,000 residents and tens of thousands of day visitors. Tatu City’s schools educate thousands of students daily, and a range of homes suits all incomes and businesses that thrive in the country’s first operational Special Economic Zone. Located 30 minutes from Westlands, Tatu City represents a new way of living and thinking for all Kenyans in a live, work and play environment that is free from traffic congestion and long-distance commuting.Tatu City is a development by Rendeavour, Africa’s largest new city builder with 30,000 acres of visionary projects in growth trajectories across Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Tatu City is a 5,000-acre new city on Nairobi’s doorstep with homes, schools, businesses, a shopping district, a medical clinic, nature areas and recreation for more than 250,000 residents and tens of thousands of day visitors. Tatu City’s schools educate thousands of students daily, and a range of homes suits all incomes and businesses that thrive in the country’s first operational Special Economic Zone. Located 30 minutes from Westlands, Tatu City represents a new way of living and thinking for all Kenyans in a live, work and play environment that is free from traffic congestion and long-distance commuting.
Tatu City is a development by Rendeavour, Africa’s largest new city builder with 30,000 acres of visionary projects in growth trajectories across Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
