Legislative Drafting And Advisory Specialist

Job responsibilities

• Provide legal advice on draft bills, different contracts and tender documents;

• Prepare a draft proposal of new amendments and revise existing legal instruments;

• Provide legal advice on various legal documents as may be required;

• Participate in Standing committee meetings, provide legal advice while reviewing draft laws or citizen requests and ensure that amendments are incorporated into the bill;

• Verify the conformity between the standing committee’s report and the draft bills;

• Participate in the plenary sittings, follow up debates and verify the incorporation of amendments after the adoption of laws;

• Analyze various policies, legislation, and government programs that are covered by the bills or private member’s bills;

• Produce an advisory notice on bills or private member’s bills to verify the opportunity, relevance, and compliance with the legislation, various policies and government programs;

• Conduct comparative studies with international best practices;

• Collect and review policies, legal documents, or any other document in relation to the private Member’s bill;

• Provide a draft private Member’s bill for consideration by Members of Parliament.

• Verify the conformity between published bills and those adopted by the Parliament;

• Make an assessment report of the conformity between published laws and laws adopted by the Parliament;

• Review of published laws to verify if different orders provided therein have been published;

• Prepare presentations to the Bureau or Standing Committees as may be required.

Qualifications

• Master's Degree in Law, Business Law, International Law, Administrative Law, Legal Studies, Civil Law, Legislative Drafting, Public Law with 1 Years of relevant experience

• Bachelor's Degree in Law, Business Law, International law, Civil Law, Public law, Legal Studies, Administrative Law, legislative drafting with 3 Years of relevant experience

Required competencies and key technical skills

• Resource management skills

• Problem solving skills

• Decision making skills

• Time management skills

• Risk management skills

• Results oriented

• Digital literacy skills

• Knowledge of Government policy-making and legislative processes

• Report writing and presentation skills

• Coordination, planning and organizational skills

• Research skills

• Knowledge to analyse complex legal information and to present it clearly, comprehensively and accurately, both orally and in writing;

• Knowledge of Rwandan legal system with a good knowledge of other legal systems;

• Legislative drafting skills;

• Knowledge of the Justice sector policies and issues

• Communication skills

• Interpersonal skills

• Administrative skills

• Knowledge and understanding of the Rwandan legal system

• Analytical skills;

• Collaboration and team working skills