Consultant: Legal Costs X2

Road Accident Fund; Durban; On-site; ZAR 426 000 - 502 000; Full time

Job summary

A public service organization in Durban is seeking a Consultant: Legal costs to manage legal cost assessments for claims. The ideal candidate will have a Bachelor’s Degree and three years' experience in insurance or legal environments. Key responsibilities include consulting with experts and reviewing claims to ensure fairness and compliance. This positions offers a fixed-term contract with a competitive salary.

Qualifications

• Relevant 3 years’ experience in an insurance, legal or accounting related environment.

Responsibilities

• Consult with legal and medical experts to gain insights into a claim.
• Review claims to ensure no fraudulent or contradictory claims are made.
• Maintain healthy relationships with all stakeholders.

Skills

Legal cost management

Medical bill reviewing

Strong Analytical capabilities

Planning, Organising and Coordinating

Client Service Orientation

Education

Bachelor’s Degree/Advanced Diploma in a related qualification

Job description

Division: Claims

Reference No: 6275

Location: Durban, Kwazulu-Natal, ZA

Employment Type: Fixed Term Contract

Disability (EE targeted role): No

T.A.S.K Grade: 11

Job Posting Salary: R501,775.00

Job Posting End Date: 11 Nov 2025

The Road Accident Fund’s mission is to provide timely and equitable assistance to those affected by motor vehicle accidents through the provision of appropriate social benefits to ensure financial relief and recovery for qualifying individuals.

Purpose of the Job: The Consultant: Legal costs is responsible to consult with legal and medical experts to gain further insights into a claim and its resulting costs.

18 months Fixed Term Contract

Key Performance Areas

Legal cost management

• Keep up-to-date wih all incoming claims.
• Read and interpret claims.
• Review claims to ensure no fradulant or contradictory claims are made.
• Determine if a claim requires the services of an attorney.
• Determine the actual fees due to an attorney for each case.
• Ensure all payments to attorney’s are fair and reasonable.
• Consult different service providers to understand where the organisation could save on legal fees.

Quality Assurance

• Ensure that legal costing processes are implemented and maintained at the highest standards.
• Maintain the implementation an unusual occurrence procedures.

Administrative Support

• Deal with/and respond to correspondence.
• Produce documents, briefing papers, reports and presentations.
• Assist with typing and editing briefs, technical papers, letters to various parties, and memos.

Reporting

• Track and report against set objectives and targets.
• Report on emerging risks.
• Provide ad hoc reports on process improvement initiatives.

Stakeholder Management

• Maintain healthy relationships with all stakeholders.
• Follow up and feedback to all stakeholders to keep them updated on the status of a query.
• Respond to queries within the predefined turnaround times.

Qualifications And Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree/Advanced Diploma in a related qualification.
• Relevant 3 years’ experience in an insurance, legal or accounting related environment.

Behavioural competencies

• Planning, Organising and Coordinating
• Personal Mastery
• Judgement and Decision Making
• Ethics and Values
• Client Service Orientation

Technical Competencies

• Knowledge of legal costs.
• Understanding of post claim management and settlement.
• Medical bill reviewing.
• Medical case management.
• Complex problem identification, solving and decision making.
• Customer value proposition.
• Good financial management skills.
• Strong Analytical capabilities.
• Knowledge of Motor Vehicle Accident legislation.
• PFMA knowledge.

The Road Accident Fund subscribes to the principles of employment equity and preference will be given to People with Disabilities.

Applicants who have not received any correspondence from us within six weeks from the closing date can consider themselves unsuccessful.

Security Vetting shall be conducted on all prospective employees.

It is the applicants’ responsibility to have foreign qualification evaluated by the South African Qualification Authority (SAQA) and to provide proof of such evaluation.