Job Title: Legal Apprentice (No Experience Fresh Graduate Jobs)
Organisation: ABSA Bank Uganda
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
About Organisation:
Absa Group Limited (formerly Barclays Bank UK) is a diversified standalone African financial services group, delivering an integrated set of products and services across personal and business banking, corporate and investment banking, wealth, investment management and insurance. Absa Group Limited is listed on the JSE and is one of Africa’s largest diversified financial services groups with a presence in 12 countries across the continent and around 41 000 employees
Job Summary: Participate in an internship programme in order to maximise individual and organisational development, through the execution of predefined internship objectives.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Assist in drafting, reviewing, and analyzing various banking agreements including loan documentation, security documents, and corporate banking facilities under supervision.
- Attend to assigned litigation matters such as updating the litigation tracker.
- Undertake legal research in respect of assigned matters and issue supervised and approved legal opinions.
- Attend to administrative tasks of the Legal Function including;
- Renewal of practicing certificates and approval of chambers.
- Arrange continuous legal education training for the advocates in the Legal Function.
- Recording, filing and archiving of legal documents and correspondences.
- Prepare department reports.
- Update the legal calendar with relevant dates such as court attendances.
- Due diligence including company searches and verification of letters of administration.
- Attend to assigned company secretariat matters including booking meetings, attend to Board members requests, update Director information, and attend to any tasks incidental thereto as may be assigned from time to time.
- Follow up and ensure legal fees are paid to lawyers within SLA.
- Assist during internal compliance, audits and regulatory examinations.
- Attend to such other matters as may be assigned from time to time.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- Bachelor of Laws (LLB); qualified advocate of the High Court of Uganda.
- Post Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice.
- Education
- Higher Certificates and Advanced National (Vocational) Certificates: Business, Commerce and Management Studies (Required)
Key Competencies:
- Legal knowledge.
- Analytical, problem solving skills.
- Networking skills.
- Good communication skills – oral and written.
- Strong Interpersonal skills.
- Planning and organization.
- Report writing.
- Administrative skills.
- Ability to multitask.
- Excellent computer skills majorly in Ms. Word, Excel, Power Point and Outlook.
How to Apply:
All suitably qualified and interested candidates who wish to join ABSA Group in the aforementioned capacity should apply online at the link below.
Deadline: 2nd September 2025
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Level of Education: Bachelor Degree
Work Hours: 8
Experience in Months: no experience required