Legal Associate

Key Responsibilities

• Draft, review, and negotiate various agreements, including insurance policies, service level agreements with partners, vendor agreements, and terms & conditions.
• Maintain organized and compliant commercial contracts, implementing a tracking system for all contract workflows.
• Collaborate with internal teams to gather necessary inputs and manage contract lifecycle tasks.
• Identify and appropriately escalate legal risks to teams involved in contracting with third parties.
• Enhance the operational efficiency of our contracting processes.
• Manage legal servings and legal insurance matters involving Turaco as an insurance underwriter.
• Provide legal responses and document review support to various teams.
• Conduct legal research, documentation, and offer legal advice and solutions.
• Manage legal compliance with relevant regulatory bodies (including insurance regulators, data protection, etc.)
• Manage the Company Secretary work for all Turaco entities.
• Help the business understand and manage the balance between commercial opportunities and legal risks.
• Develop templates for commonly used legal documents and review the application of the templates.

Key Qualifications

• Embody Turaco’s core values: Push boundaries, Work with excellence, and Profound respect for the individual.
• 3 to 5 years of post-admission experience in a busy law firm or corporate legal department.
• Bachelor of Laws degree (LLB), Legal Diploma (Dip. in Law, KSL), and advocate of the High Court.
• Knowledge of insurance products, services, principles, and practices is an added advantage.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• High-level interpersonal and cross-cultural skills, including strong collaboration abilities.
• Self-starter, highly organized, and possessing a high degree of integrity.
• Trustworthiness and discretion in handling confidential information.
• Willingness to work effectively as a team member across different geographies and cultures.