The Role
Our client is seeking a Paralegal Consultant with a wealth of experience in contract management processes and architecture solution platforms to join their team for a focused 3-month contract. In this role, you’ll work directly with our legal team to ensure smooth case handling, accurate document management, and efficient legal support on a critical project.
If you’re detail-oriented, proactive, and ready to contribute meaningfully to our success, we’d love to have you on board!
Skills and Experience
What you’ll do:
- Implementation Planning and coordination with relevant teams.
- Develop a detailed project plan outlining milestones, timelines, and responsibilities.
- Oversee the migration of existing contracts to the new system.
- Conduct thorough data validation to ensure accuracy and completeness.
- Customization and Configuration - Collaborate with selected vendor to customize the contract system based on legal team needs. Configure user access permissions, workflows, and approval processes.
- Document Management - Review and organize contracts within the system, ensuring they are correctly categorized and easily accessible.
- Assist in creating and maintaining a Clause library and Playbooks for various contracts.
- Training - Develop training materials and user guides and conduct training sessions to familiarize users with the new system.
- Testing and Quality Assurance - Participate and execute thorough testing to identify and resolve any system issues before full deployment.
- User Support and Issue Resolution - Provide continuous support for staff using the new system.
- Monitoring and Reporting - Monitor system performance and address any emerging issues.
- Generate regular reports on the effectiveness and efficiency of the contract management system.
- Establish a feedback loop for continuous improvement based on user input.
Your expertise:
- Minimum of 5 years working experience in the following areas:
- Experience managing a contract management software
- Commercial/Corporate experience in a large local law firm or an international law firm or in-house legal or relevant international company
- Worked across diverse cultures and geographies
- Experience in telecom environment or ICT/wholesale environment.
- Experience in reviewing transactions involving the procurement, development, licensing and support of technology products and services, and intellectual property.
Competencies and key skills:
- Legal Knowledge and Document management.
- Basic IT skills and experience with specific contract management systems or similar software.
- Project Management.
- Verbal and written communication skills:
- Analytical skills
- Adaptability and learning agility
- Team Collaboration and Stakeholder Management
Qualifications required:
- 3 - 4 Year degree in Law (Bachelor of Laws) or relevant Undergraduate degree
- Master of Laws or relevant Master’s degree is advantageous
Other
Other information applicable to the opportunity:
- Contract Position: 3 Months
- Location: Roodepoort - Hybrid
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