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Legal Officer Jobs – Uganda Muslim Supreme Council (UMSC)
Job Title: Legal Officer
Organisation: Uganda Muslim Supreme Council (UMSC)
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
About US:
Uganda Muslim Supreme Council (UMSC) is the mother organization and governing body of all Muslims in Uganda with 12.1% of the Ugandan Population. The Body unifies about 9,071,671 Muslims in Uganda.
Job Summary: The Legal Officer will serve as the focal liaison person at UMSC on legal matters
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- To handle both internal and external legal concerns
- To handle and corporate matters in UMSC and providing legal advice to management and any department of UMSC
- Monitor and advise management on all legal affairs within UMSC to added control weaknesses and other inefficiency
- Perform routine risk assessments and identity control in place to mitigate them
- Identity control gaps and opportunities for improvement
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The applicant must hold a Bachelor’s Degree in law from a recognized institution
- An advocate of the High Court of Uganda and all courts subordinate to thereunder
- Demonstrable work experience
- Proof of Membership to a professional body.
- Compute racy
- Excellent communication skills
- High degree of personal initiatives and innovations
- High degree of professionalism and integrity
- Adherence to the values of UMSO and amic teachings
- In depth knowledge of the las applicable
- Working knowledge of more than five official languages is an added advantage
How to Apply:
All interested and qualified candidates should personally hand deliver their application papers phone and email addresses of a with 2 referees, TIN and NSSF numbers, certified academic documents, annual practicing license (where applicable) to the office of the Secretary General, Uganda Muslim Supreme Council plot 23-25, Old Kampala
NOTE:
- Applicants should apply for only one position
- The applicant should be comfortable with conducting a background check
- Deadline for all applications is on 17th August 2023 at 16:00hrs
- No fee is charged at any stage of the recruitment process. All applications will be assessed strictly on individual
- No casing or lobbying will be tolerated. Individuals found to have done so will be disqualified and backed
- Only qualified and shortlisted candidates shall be notified to appear for interviews
Deadline: 17th August 2023
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