Legal Senior Advisor

Job Purpose

Jobholders at this level are responsible for leading work activities and working autonomously with minor direction towards predetermined long-term objectives.

Jobholders might act as internal consultants and facilitators through providing guidance to deliver and perform operational activities.

Their main operational role includes participating in assessing the effectiveness of current legal practices and tools to accordingly guide legal research and achieve research objectives across different legal areas, sharing research findings with key stakeholders to answer related queries and questions.

Roles And Responsibilities

• Assist in the establishment of a Legal Research and Development Strategy to assist ZATCA in achieving research objectives in a range of legal areas
• Assess ZATCA's current legal practices and tools and analyse their relevance and effectiveness in relation to the organization
• Specify prospective data sources for planned research and studies
• Communicate all research outcomes with key stakeholders and accordingly schedule needed meetings to answer all related queries and questions
• Keep abreast as well as continuously suggest new research topics to enhance ZATCAs research repository
• Develop, maintain and improve research sources and database to ensure availability and accessibility of required information
• Provide legal review on all the legal & enforcement sector outcome
• Publish the drafts of ZATCA's laws and regulations on a Public Consultation Platform “istitlaa” and provide legal support to all sectors
• Provide feedback on laws and regulations published by other government agencies, which intersects with ZATCA regulations and operations
• Recommend publishing ministerial decisions and administrative circulars in the Official newspaper and deposit them in the Documentation and Archives Centre, and coordinating with the relevant departments on this
• Follow all relevant policies, processes and standard operating procedures so that work is carried out in a controlled and consistent manner
• Help in solving escalated problems and provide needed support for junior team to ensure work is carried out in an efficient manner
• Escalate complex problems to the relevant person to ensure cases/issues are closed properly
• Perform other duties as requested
• Train junior staff on the different job activities to ensure transfer of know-how, when applicable
• Provide clear direction, prioritize tasks, assign and delegate responsibility, and monitor the workflow of subordinates/ junior staff
• Support junior staff or direct reports in order to execute their duties according to set policies and processes
  
  
  

Job Qualifications And Requirements

A minimum of 5 years of relevant experience

Bachelor’s degree in Legal Studies, Business Administration, or equivalent is required

Master’s degree in Legal Studies, Business Administration, or equivalent is preferred