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Senior Legal Officer Job at Uganda Airlines
Uganda Airlines
Job Description
The Senior Legal Officer provides critical support to the Manager, Legal and Board Affairs, in managing daily legal and corporate governance matters. The role involves drafting, reviewing, negotiating, and managing contracts; supporting litigation and dispute resolution; conducting legal research and advisory services; and ensuring compliance with applicable legal, regulatory, and corporate governance requirements across UNACL and its subsidiaries (if any).
Duties, Roles and Responsibilities
- Support the Legal and Board Affairs Assistant Manager and or Manager Legal and Board Affairs in working with relevant stakeholders, defining negotiation strategies and actively participating in the review, negotiation and drafting of various agreements between UNACL and suppliers and the Company’s joint venture partners.
- Support the Assistant Manager Legal and Board Affairs in the execution & effective management/implementation of the UNACL agreements.
- Support the Legal and Board Affairs Assistant Manager in the allocation of contractual and regulatory risks during the negotiations and drafting of agreements.
- Initiate legal opinions and advisory notes.
- Support contract management through inter alia development (originating) of trackers & matrices and maintaining inventories of contracts.
- Monitor transaction compliance (milestones, deliverables, invoicing etc.) and file all necessary documentation for compliance.
- Track and ensure project contract close-out, extension, or renewal.
- Conduct legal analysis and research on various company legal matters.
- Support implementation of existing tools or the putting in place of relevant tools to ensure UNACL’s operations are conducted in compliance with the applicable legal, regulatory, contractual regime, acceptable best international practices and internal policies.
- Support interpretation and provision of advice and guidance on legal, regulatory and contractual matters arising from any contract executed or under negotiation.
- Support the monitoring of legal, contractual and regulatory developments within Uganda and globally that may impact the legal, regulatory and contractual landscape applicable to the UNACL’s operations and ensure these are effectively communicated and or implemented.
- Assist the Assistant Manager legal & Board Affairs in ensuring that the company and its subsidiaries adhere to corporate governance requirements.
- Assist the Assistant Manager Legal and Board Affairs in overseeing the smooth operation of board meetings and annual general meetings.
- Provide support to the Board & Advisory functions of the Legal and Board affairs department.
- Prepare court papers, court briefs and attend court hearings on behalf of UNACL and defend the Company’s interests.
- Support the Assistant Manager Legal and Board Affairs with securing approvals from the Solicitor General for all contracts submitted to the Solicitor General for approval.
- Undertake any other assignment as may be required.
- Draft department budgets
- Implement cost saving initiatives for the department
- Financial Responsibility
- Support drafting of departmental budgets.
- Implement cost-saving initiatives within the department.
Qualifications, Education and Competencies
See all details of the qualifications, competencies and education for this role under the "How to Apply" section below.
Interested persons who meet the above criteria should visit the company website on www.careers.ugandairlines.com, download and fill the application form to provide details about how their experience is relevant to the duties and responsibilities described in the job description as well as attach your curriculum vitae and copies of the required academic documents not later than the 16th of April 2026.
Deadline: 16th April 2026
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