Legal Counsel

Averda; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 30 000 - 60 000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading waste management company dedicated to creating a cleaner world. As a legal professional, you will play a crucial role in negotiating contracts, ensuring compliance, and providing legal support across various departments. This innovative firm values diversity and is committed to sustainability, making it an exciting place to work. Your expertise will help navigate complex legal landscapes and drive initiatives that protect both the environment and community health. If you are a proactive individual with a passion for making a difference, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Minimum two years PQE in legal practice.
• Strong knowledge of corporate laws and regulations.

Responsibilities

• Negotiate and draft commercial contracts.
• Provide legal support to internal departments.
• Manage disputes and compliance with governance standards.

Skills

Commercial Contract Negotiation

Legal Support

Dispute Management

Corporate Governance Knowledge

Risk Management

Attention to Detail

Communication Skills

Education

LLB Law

Completed Articles

Tools

MS Outlook

MS Word

MS Excel

Job description

#WeAreAverda

About Us

Averda is the leading waste management and recycling company in the emerging world, operating in India and across the Middle East and Africa. The company provides a broad and specialized range of services to over 60,000 clients - large and small - across private and public sectors. These include the municipal authorities of major cities and household names in a wide range of sectors including oil & gas, automotive, retail and hospitality.

Founded in 1964 and headquartered in Dubai, Averda increasingly focuses on providing sustainable solutions which extract value from waste, reducing use of the planet’s limited natural resources and driving the circular economy. The company’s portfolio of services range from collecting bins and cleaning city streets to sorting, composting, recycling and disposing of household waste as well as safely managing highly-regulated hazardous waste streams including medical waste and dangerous chemicals. Recent investments have further developed the company’s waste treatment capabilities, with the goal of providing circular recovery options in all markets.

The company currently employs over 9,000 people worldwide, helping to provide secure employment amongst the communities it serves. Protection of environmental and human health is the company’s highest priority, and it operates in full compliance with international standards for quality control wherever it operates, currently: UAE, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Qatar, Morocco, South Africa, and India.

Our Mission

To treat, recover and recycle more than 80% of the waste that flows through our fleet and facilities using innovative sustainable solutions that satisfy our customers’ needs.

For over 30 years, we’ve taken pride in keeping cities, communities, and the environment clean and sanitary. But today we go far beyond just cleaning. We provide a full end-to-end service for our clients across developing and emerging economies who, like us, care about what happens to their waste. Together, we find solutions which recover or unlock the value in materials others call ‘waste’. We use the latest technology and our best creative minds to solve environmental problems and ensure we leave a cleaner and more sustainable world for our children.

Our Values

Deliver. Care. Inspire

Our values remain the same as the day we were founded - deliver, care and inspire. We deliver for our clients. We care for our planet and our people. We inspire others through our actions.

Our Vision

Our world without waste.

We share a vision of a world where materials are not merely discarded, but are reused, recycled, and recovered. A world without waste.

Overview

The high-level overview of what the job is required to do:

• Negotiating, drafting, reviewing and advising on commercial contracts.
• Local corporate structuring work.
• Administering companies in South Africa accordance with applicable governance and compliance standards and requirements.
• Providing commercial legal support and advice to internal departments.
• Managing disputes in South Africa and reporting to Group Legal.
• Legal administration
• Comply with Health, Safety and Environment policies
• Risk Management

Qualifications

• LLB Law
• Minimum two years PQE
• Completed Articles.

Knowledge

• English business language skills to the level of a native speaker (spoken and written)
• Excellent legal, commercial and soft skills
• Strong knowledge about corporate laws and regulations is essential
• Strong commercial acumen
• Knowledge regard corporate governance would be advantageous

Technical Competencies

• Proficient in using MS Outlook, Word and Excel
• Well organized
• Excellent attention to detail
• Ability to work and communicate effectively with people at different levels, internally and externally
• A solution driven and “can do” attitude
• Ability to deal with to work efficiently under pressure
• Self-sufficient and confident in ability to fulfil the job description
• Comfortable taking initiative
• Ability to work to deadlines and to efficiently prioritize workload
• Must enjoy working within a team

If you think you have what it takes to make the world a cleaner place, if you can see value where others see waste and if you aren’t afraid of a challenge, why not start your journey with us today.

Averda welcomes candidates from all backgrounds, actively promotes diversity in the workforce, and is committed to creating an inclusive space where employees are valued for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives.