As a key leader in the organisation, the Head of Legal and Governance will offer clear and pragmatic legal advice while leading and implementing strategies to strengthen the overall governance, compliance, and probity practices of the organisation. The postholder will develop the legal, governance, and business support strategy, to support IX in its mission and objectives, as well as providing professional leadership and advice on strategic issues affecting legal and governance across the organisation.

AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY

As part of the Executive Committee (Exco), you will:

• Support the formulation of the Company’s future direction and business strategy, to optimise the value created for customers and stakeholders, and secure a sustainable future for iX.
• Contribute to the setting of corporate standards and ensure alignment between the Corporate Strategy and the service unit delivery plan.
• Promote and progress a collaborative culture in the business unit and across iX, leading and driving the overall approach to legal, corporate governance, and business support.
• Identify opportunities to reduce cost, and contribute to the efficiency pipeline, ensuring a commercial mindset is developed and embedded across the team.
• Role model the iX values, creating and encouraging a culture of learning, where employees are able to flourish, perform, and achieve.
• This role will set the direction for iX legal, governance, and business support services.

Legal

• Leading the Legal Team to ensure compliance with new and current legislation.
• Ensuring secure compliance with all statutory, legal, and policy requirements arising from the Company’s activities.
• Providing high quality legal advice in a broad range of disciplines and applying appropriate judgement to decide which matters require legal input, and whether this should be provided internally or externally.
• Drafting, revising, and supporting the negotiation of contracts, ensuring that contractual terms provide compliance with relevant regulations and legislation, but also considering commercial factors.
• Ensuring senior management are appraised of legal issues, including new legislation which may have an impact on iX’ activities and objectives.
• Advising on the mitigation of risk, and on regulatory, compliance, data protection, and all relevant legislation.
• Handling potential and actual disputes, in coordination with internal and external resources. 

Information governance

• Leading the POPIA Compliance Team (Information Governance) to ensure compliance with data protection laws.
• Developing and managing the data protection strategy, including but not limited to POPIA.
• Ensuring that monitoring and reporting provisions are in place to capture changes to relevant information governance best practice.
• Maintaining an effective relationship with the Senior Information Risk Owner.

Corporate governance

• Delivering strategic corporate governance and company secretarial advice, and guidance to all levels across iX.
• Establishing and ensuring the effective delivery of Company secretariat services for the Board, Committees, and shareholders of iX.

Business support

• Leading the Legal Team as a business support functions to achieve a consistently high standard of service delivery for iX.
• Developing and implementing communication mechanisms to ensure that all stakeholders are informed and engaged in the delivery of the business support strategy.
• Working flexibly and effectively with the Team, to promote and facilitate joined up thinking and action.