Background

Victory Farms is a tilapia fish farm established in 2015. VF is located on the Kenyan side of Lake Victoria and has distribution capacity throughout Kenya. The Company is rapidly expanding its farm operation, fish processing, and sales & marketing capabilities. By the end of 2017, VF is on track to be the largest aquaculture farm in East Africa. VF is em...

Roles & Responsibilities:

Commercial and Contractual Support

• Draft, review, and negotiate all commercial contracts including supply agreements, processing and logistics contracts, distributor and customer contracts, NDAs, MOUs, and service agreements.
• Track key obligations, renewal dates, and termination rights.

Land, Lake and Property Risk

• Support the legal management of land purchases and leases, lake use rights and site access, subdivisions, successions, and any title regularization processes.

Regulatory and Government Compliance

• Advise on and support compliance with fisheries and aquaculture regulations, environmental and water use licenses, county cess, permits, and business licenses, public health and food safety rules.
• Interface with County governments, Fisheries authorities, NEMA, regulators, Inspectors and auditors.

Employment and Labour Matters

• Provide legal support on disciplinary hearings, show-cause and termination processes, and employment classifications (casual, contract, permanent) as well as compliance with overtime, wages, and statutory benefits.
• Ensure compliance with Employment Act, Labour Relations law, minimum wage and working hours regulations.

Immigration and Expatriate Management

• Support legal compliance for work permits and visas, expatriates’ contracts and assignments, Immigration audits and renewals.
• Coordinate with the Legal and Immigration Clerk and government agencies.

Disputes and Litigation Management

• Manage external counsel on cases involving Labour claims, land disputes, commercial and regulatory matters.
• Instruct, coordinate, and supervise external counsel.
• Prepare legal strategies, pleadings, and settlement positions.

Corporate and Governance Support

• Prepare board resolutions, regulatory filings and corporate records.

Data, Compliance and Risk

• Support the Data Protection Officer on Data Protection Act compliance, investigations and breach responses.
• Identify and escalate legal risks that could shut down operations, trigger fines or license loss and damage the company’s reputation

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor of Laws (LLB) and Post-Graduate Diploma (Advocates Training Programme or equivalent)
• Admitted Advocate of the High Court of Kenya.
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in Commercial law, Employment and regulatory law, Land or project-based legal work.
• Data Protection certification with proven practical experience.
• Experience dealing with Government agencies, Regulators, Large operational businesses.
• Strong contract drafting and negotiation.
• Ability to convert legal principles into actionable business guidance.
• High attention to detail and risk awareness.

• Draft, review, and negotiate all commercial contracts including supply agreements, processing and logistics contracts, distributor and customer contracts, NDAs, MOUs, and service agreements.
• Track key obligations, renewal dates, and termination rights.
• Support the legal management of land purchases and leases, lake use rights and site access, subdivisions, successions, and any title regularization processes.
• Advise on and support compliance with fisheries and aquaculture regulations, environmental and water use licenses, county cess, permits, and business licenses, public health and food safety rules.
• Interface with County governments, Fisheries authorities, NEMA, regulators, Inspectors and auditors.
• Provide legal support on disciplinary hearings, show-cause and termination processes, and employment classifications (casual, contract, permanent) as well as compliance with overtime, wages, and statutory benefits.
• Ensure compliance with Employment Act, Labour Relations law, minimum wage and working hours regulations.
• Support legal compliance for work permits and visas, expatriates’ contracts and assignments, Immigration audits and renewals.
• Coordinate with the Legal and Immigration Clerk and government agencies.
• Manage external counsel on cases involving Labour claims, land disputes, commercial and regulatory matters.
• Instruct, coordinate, and supervise external counsel.
• Prepare legal strategies, pleadings, and settlement positions.
• Prepare board resolutions, regulatory filings and corporate records.
• Support the Data Protection Officer on Data Protection Act compliance, investigations and breach responses.
• Identify and escalate legal risks that could shut down operations, trigger fines or license loss and damage the company’s reputation

• Strong contract drafting and negotiation.
• Ability to convert legal principles into actionable business guidance.
• High attention to detail and risk awareness.

• Bachelor of Laws (LLB) and Post-Graduate Diploma (Advocates Training Programme or equivalent)
• Admitted Advocate of the High Court of Kenya.
• Data Protection certification with proven practical experience.
• Experience dealing with Government agencies, Regulators, Large operational businesses.