Manager Legal Services

The Manager, Legal Services leads and manages the Corporation’s legal function, providing strategic legal advice to Executive Management, ensuring regulatory compliance, overseeing litigation and contracts, and supporting sound corporate governance.

PUBLIC TRANSPORT SERVICE CORPORATION

VACANCY

The Public Transport Service Corporation (PTSC), in its drive towards improving and expanding its services, is pleased to invite applications for the following CONTRACT position.

Manager - Legal Services One (1) position

JOB SUMMARY:

The Manager, Legal Services is responsible for leading, coordinating, and managing all legal functions of the Corporation. The position provides legal advice to Executive Management, ensures compliance with applicable laws and regulations, oversees litigation and contractual matters, and supports corporate governance. The incumbent plays a strategic role in protecting the Corporation’s legal interests while guiding sound decision-making across all operational units.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Strategic, leadership and administrative responsibilities

• Serve as subject matter expert on legal, compliance and Industrial Relation issues
• Support the Department’s role as primary liaison between the Corporation and these external stakeholders, including government ministries
• Maintain effective stakeholder relationships
• Responsible for the execution and management of strategic initiatives within their department as required
• Responsible for demonstrating and upholding the Corporation’s values and developing and overseeing initiatives to embed same within the Department.
• Maintain effective inter-departmental relationships.
• Participates in decision making regarding strategic direction policies and specific goals of the Corporation.

Functional responsibilities

Board support and legal advice and research, including:

• Review contracts, leases, agreements and terms and conditions offered by suppliers and external parties and negotiate, or advise negotiators, on terms and conditions that will serve the best interest of the Corporation.
• Research relevant legislation and standards and provides legal advice to support the implementation of new services or other Board decisions.
• Monitor and maintain the necessary changes in statutory or regulatory management.
• Co-ordinate and decide with the Board of Management to brief complex matters to external counsel for opinion and provides instructions to Attorneys for court related matters.
• Represent the Corporation in the various Courts of Trinidad and Tobago in Court matters where necessary.
• Represent PTSC internally and externally in negotiation, disputes, consultations and other proceedings that require legal representation,
• Provide in-house legal counsel to the various departments in PTSC as required
• Provide advice, opinion, direction and guidance on legal issues and requirements of all functional areas of PTSC

Records management:

• Manage and maintain corporate, legal and other relevant records
• Provide information as required by the FOIA on behalf of the Corporation

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE:

• Bachelor of Law Degree (LLB).
• Legal Education Certification (LEC), or other equivalent professional qualification.
• Called to the bar of Trinidad and Tobago.
• At least ten (10) years’ experience as an Attorney at Law
• Experience in corporate, public-sector, administrative, industrial relations, labour law and commercial law.

SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE:

• Knowledge of Civil Litigation, Contract law, Employment law, Insurance Law, Landlord and Tenant Law, Land law, Freedom of Information and other laws of Trinidad and Tobago.
• Comprehensive knowledge of relevant statutory regulations pertaining to the Transport industry.
• Demonstrating expertise of medical negligence will be an asset.

Any comparable combination of training will be considered.