Legal Operations Paralegal

In brief

Overview This role supports the Discovery Green Legal function as a Legal Operations Paralegal. The core function involves coordinating post-signature contract management, monitoring contractual and regulatory obligations, maintaining accurate legal records and reporting tools, and preparing routine legal and compliance documentation. The position acts as a central coordination point between Legal, Operations, and other stakeholders to ensure that contractual deliverables, conditions, deadlines, and supporting evidence are identified, tracked, escalated, and completed timeously. It is important to note that the role does not provide independent legal advice and requires referral of substantive legal interpretation, negotiation positions, disputes, and material risk decisions to the Head of Legal or designated legal counsel. What you will do * Maintain complete and current contract, suspensive-condition, reporting and obligation trackers for power purchase agreements, renewable energy supply agreements, electricity supply agreements, direct agreements, lender documents and related arrangements. * Identify upcoming deadlines, issue reminders within agreed lead times, and promptly escalate overdue, incomplete or at-risk obligations to the Head of Legal. * Coordinate the collection, validation and filing of evidence of fulfilment, waiver, delivery or compliance. * Act as the coordination point between Legal, Operations and relevant internal and external stakeholders to ensure clean handover of executed transactions into operational management. * Maintain action lists, follow up agreed deliverables and support timely completion of implementation activities involving Discovery Group functions, Eskom, NERSA, generators, independent power producers, customers, lenders and service providers. * Maintain accurate matter and contract records, including executed agreements, amendments, notices, waivers, approvals, correspondence, supporting evidence, status information, links and timelines, in the approved repository. * Prepare accurate first drafts of recurring certificates, reports, notices, routine correspondence and other standard legal or compliance documents for legal review. * Produce periodic status reports and dashboards identifying completed, outstanding, overdue and high-risk items, with clear proposed follow-up actions. * Support audit, due-diligence and regulatory-readiness exercises by retrieving complete and reliable records and evidence. * Maintain approved templates, precedents, playbooks and legal-process documentation, with appropriate document control and version management. * Identify and implement practical process improvements, workflow automation and legal-technology solutions that improve efficiency, visibility and data quality. * Use legal technology and approved AI tools responsibly, subject to confidentiality, privilege, information-security and human-review requirements. Requirements (from the original advert) * A recognised paralegal, legal administration or contract-management qualification, or an LLB, BCom Law, BA Law or equivalent relevant qualification from a recognised institution. * Relevant demonstrable experience may be considered in conjunction with, or in place of, a formal paralegal qualification, subject to Discovery’s recruitment requirements. * Experience in contract administration and obligation management. * Experience in document management, filing and version control. * Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and tracker management. * Proficiency in Microsoft Word and document formatting. * Experience in legal drafting and proofreading. * Experience in compliance and deadline monitoring. * Experience in stakeholder and project coordination. * Experience in legal research. Who should apply The ideal candidate is highly organised and detail-oriented, with an uncompromising approach to accuracy. They should be capable of managing multiple priorities and deadlines simultaneously, and comfortable engaging with a variety of internal and external stakeholders. Strong project coordination and follow-through skills are essential. The candidate should be proactive, solutions-driven, able to work independently, and skilled in time management and administration. Sound judgement in identifying matters requiring escalation to the Head of Legal is important, alongside high ethical standards, discretion, and the ability to handle privileged and commercially sensitive information. Deadline Not specified Reference Original posting: https://www.myjobmag.co.za/job/legal-operations-paralegal-discovery-limited Source: myjobmag

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