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Job Summary

Job Title:
Legal Officer, Litigation and Recovery
Employer:
Housing Finance Bank
Location:
Kampala
Country:
Uganda
Contract Type:
Full-time
Job Category:
Legal Jobs
Number of Positions:
Deadline:
Tuesday, 31 March 2026

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Housing Finance Bank is a leading financial institution dedicated to providing accessible, innovative, and customer-centric housing finance solutions that empower individuals and businesses to achieve their homeownership and real estate investment goals. With a strong reputation for reliability, transparency, and excellence in mortgage and housing finance, the bank has earned recognition as a trusted partner in the financial sector. The institution fosters a dynamic and inclusive work culture, offering employees competitive benefits, professional development programs, and a supportive environment that encourages innovation and collaboration. With diverse job opportunities in banking, finance, risk management, customer service, and administration, the bank provides flexible work arrangements that promote efficiency and work-life balance. Established with a vision to transform the housing finance landscape, the bank has grown through strategic partnerships, financial product diversification, and a customer-first approach, continuously evolving to meet the changing needs of clients. Its innovation-driven business model integrates digital banking, data analytics, and tailored mortgage solutions to enhance accessibility, affordability, and convenience. With an extensive operational reach, Recruitment Housing Finance Bank serves customers across Uganda, offering a wide range of financial products, including home loans, construction financing, savings plans, and investment opportunities. Rooted in core values of integrity, customer focus, excellence, and sustainability, the bank remains committed to ethical banking practices and long-term financial empowerment. Through Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), the bank actively supports financial literacy programs, affordable housing initiatives, community development projects, and environmental sustainability efforts. For more information on services, career opportunities, and housing finance solutions.

Full-time

Deadline: 

31 Mar 2026

Legal Officer, Litigation and Recovery Job at Housing Finance Bank

Housing Finance Bank

Job Description

Implement legal action for the non-performing portfolio of the Bank as guided by the Bank’s Policies, Procedures, Processes and existing Laws in order to maintain the Bank’s asset quality in addition to managing litigation risk

Duties, Roles and Responsibilities

  • Provide cost-effective and timely legal advisory services and support to the Credit Recovery Function of the Bank in order to foster effective management of regulatory and litigation risk in the execution action to facilitate the recovery of Non-performing loans.
  • Co-ordinate the conduct of litigation matters in liaison with External Advocates which includes but is not limited to reviewing pleadings, preparing instructions, supporting Bank witnesses, coordinating hearing dates and providing necessary documents to support timely resolution of the Bank’s cases.
  • Represent the Bank in Courts of Law, other fora of Alternative Dispute Resolution and participate in negotiating settlements in liaison with the Bank’s External Advocates and/or the Credit Department.
  • Conduct due diligence on non-performing loans forwarded for legal action to support recovery to ensure compliance with the legal regime and Bank Policies and implement the appropriate action.
  • Co-ordinate the conduct of due diligence on corporate customers in liaison with external lawyers, which involves receiving requests for account searches from the branch teams, forwarding the requests to external lawyers for verification, receiving and clearing the search reports and/or guiding the branch teams on further actions to be taken.
  • Co-ordinate and monitor the implementation of instructions issued to the service providers engaged to support litigation and recovery in accordance with their service legal agreements.
  • Maintain schedules of up-to-date litigation, recovery, and account verification cases and prepare relevant reports for Management’s consideration within the required timelines.
  • Address external and internal customer queries in accordance to Bank Policy/Service Level Agreement standards and timelines.
  • Maintain a record of relevant litigation and recovery correspondences/ files and ensure safe custody thereof.
  • Perform any other duties that may be assigned by Management from time to time.
  • Financial Responsibility:
  • Financial targets on non-performing assets/ written off facilities.
  • Financial targets on arrears collections as may be assigned


Qualifications, Education and Competencies

See all details of the qualifications, competencies and education for this role under the "How to Apply" section below.

Interested candidates should submit their applications with a recent CV, copies of all academic transcripts, certificates and testimonials, daytime telephone contact, postal and email address and three competent referees to:

Chief Human Resources Officer

Housing Finance Bank,

Investment House

4 Wampewo Avenue, Kololo

Please take note that all applications should be sent by email to Recruitment@housingfinance.co.ug

DO NOT HAND DELIVER YOUR APPLICATION

Any form of canvassing will lead to automatic disqualification.

Guidelines for submitting Documents.

Ensure that all your documents are scanned and submitted in 1 single batch using the following order:

  • Application letter
  • Curriculum Vitae (CV)
  • Academic Documents and Certificates
  • The maximum document size is 10 MB.

Please indicate the name of the position you are applying for in the subject.

Deadline: 31st March 2026

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