Paralegal

The Road Accident Fund’s mission isto provide timely and equitable assistance to those affected by motor vehicle accidents through the provision of appropriate social benefits to ensure financial relief and recovery for qualifying individuals.

Purpose of the Job: The Paralegal (High Court) is responsible for providing general management, administrative and technical legal support to the attorneys.

Key Performance Areas

General management and support to Attorney

• Provide research assistance to attorneys.
• Assisting with searching and checking public records on behalf of attorneys.
• Assisting with the interviewing of clients, and witnesses.
• Assisting with collecting, retrieving, and analysing information relevant to litigation cases.
• Assisting attorneys with trial and its preparation.
• Analysing and conducting research for reporting purposes.

Document Management

• Assisting with the preparation of legal documents and arguments.
• Summarising depositions and other documents.
• Preparing briefs and pleadings and drafting discovery documents.
• Managing and organising cases.
• Updating file registers.

Reporting

• Contribute to the preparation and submission of Regulation reports.
• Aid in the development of functional reporting systems, for management, project or performance reporting.
• Report regularly and periodically perform necessary submissions as and when required to provide progress updates and/or inform management decisions.

Stakeholder Management

• Aid in proactive and progressive relationships with key stakeholders.
• Deal with inquiries and requests for information from both internal and external stakeholders.
• Aid in the maintenance of relationships with vendors, service providers or procurement teams and ensure that all relevant procured items are invoiced and paid on time.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelors Degree in Law or equivalent.
• Relevant 3 years’ experience in a legal environment.

Behavioural & Technical Competencies

• Planning, Organising and Coordinating.
• Personal Mastery.
• Judgement and Decision Making.
• Ethics and Values.
• Client Service Orientation.
• Legislation & regulatory knowledge.
• Ethics & compliance.
• PFMA.
• Knowledge of drafting.
• Monitoring and evaluation.
• Policy and standards.
• Governance.
• Claims litigation.
• MVA law and legislation.
• Negotiation.
• Conflict resolution.
• Problem solving and analysis.
• Mediation.

The Road Accident Fund subscribes to the principles of employment equity and preference will be given to People with Disabilities.

Applicants who have not received any correspondence from us within six weeks from the closing date can consider themselves unsuccessful.

Security Vetting shall be conducted on all prospective employees.

It is the applicants’ responsibility to have foreign qualification evaluated by the South African Qualification Authority (SAQA) and to provide proof of such evaluation.