Summary
Date Posted: Friday, March 08 2024, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
•Provide legal advice to the Ministry on litigation cases that may arise to ensure that all
decisions and actions are law abiding;
•To conduct assessment on litigious affairs in the sports sector, advise and inform the
ministry, sports federations and associations on best legal approach to address them;
•Develop legal and regulatory provisions (decrees and instructions) of the institution: Drafting the legal texts regarding the institutions and deliver legal opinions argued on the texts of laws, instructions, regulations and procedures;
•Lead the ministry’s legal drafting process and monitor its continuity with concerned
government institutions up to its final approval and publication in the Official Gazette;
•Provide legal expertise as required to user departments in a timely manner and within the set legal policies and procedures to ensure decisions arrived do not expose the Ministry to risk;
•Oversee Ministry’s Legal documentation and third-party contracts and ensure that they
are properly and promptly executed;
•Propose solutions with competent authorities to ensure that Ministry’s interests
are protected;
•Follow up and ensure enforcement and ratification of international conventions related
to sports:
Give legal opinions on litigious issues involving the institution. Advise management on
possible litigation risks and contribute to find solutions to avoid litigation;
Advise management on the validity and conformity of procedures with the standing/applicable laws and regulations and seek for legal texts related to these requests;
Analyze contentious files and/or requests emanating from users or agents of the
institution;
Propose solutions with competent authorities;
•Collect, preserve decisions carrying jurisprudence as regarding appeal interesting the
institution, and establish the documentation interesting the institutions in legal matters, and inform regularly the services concerned;
•Review and update draft contract prepared by the ministry, and where necessary Sports
Federations and Associations to ensure compliance with existing legal provisions:
Provide legal opinions on cases or dossiers and contracts engaging the institution. Deal
with legal issues, providing legal advice on contractual, staff, financial and institutional
matters to ensure their compliance with applicable laws, instructions, regulations
and procedures;
Prepare model contracts and decisions to be adopted and used by the institution;
Propose necessary amendments to contracts and agreements to avoid possible
misinterpretation in support of the best interests of the institution;
Prepare documents and conclusions concerning litigious issues involving the
institution for the Attorney General;
Facilitate the interpretation of applicable laws, instructions, regulations and procedures;
Monitor the implementation of applicable laws, instructions, regulations and procedures;
•Propose justified amendments of legal texts in order to improve quality of services and/or to facilitate reaching objectives determined by the Institution;
•Conduct internal sessions to update Ministry’s staffs on legal procedures and compliance
related to their respective day to day assignments;
•In collaboration with the National Sports Federation and Association Specialist, conduct
regular review of legal provisions in Sports Federations and Associations and where needed, provide needful advises and recommendation;
•Maintain and ensure safe custody of national and international legal documents, MoU’s related to the Ministry and comply with mandatory confidentiality of public service.
•Perform any other duty assigned by the supervisor which aligned with the mission.


Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 36

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

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