Legal and Ethics Officer
The South African Council for Educators SACE · Gauteng
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Start free — we apply for you →Qualifications and Skills
- Matric Certificate, NQF Level 7 qualification in the field of law.
- 2-year relevant experience
- Computer literacy
- Investigation Skill, Prosecution skills, Alternative dispute Resolution skills
- Communication and interpersonal skills.
Investigate complaints
- Consult the complainant to establish jurisdiction and additional information
- Prepare and send out notices
- Visit the school
- Interview the Principal
- Interview Victim
- Interview the accused
- Interview witnesses
- Collect evidence and write the investigation report
Mediation of complaints
- Mediate were necessary
- Prepare and send out notices
- Mediation report
Prosecution in disciplinary hearings
- Send out summons and evidence
- Send out subpoenas
- Prepare a letter for the appointment of the presiding officer and/or prosecutor
- Conduct the hearing
- Submit the closing argument, mitigation, and aggravation circumstances
- Submit the report to the Manager for the Ethics Committee
- Prepare and send out a sanction letter
- Depending on the outcome, unless there is an appeal send out a memo to finance and/or registration divisions
Prosecution in appeal hearings
- Prepare and send out opposing statements
- Create a schedule
- Prepare and send out notices
- Appoint and appeal panel
- Prepare and send out bundles to the appeal panel
- Conduct the appeal hearing
- Depending on the outcome, send out a memo to finance and/or registration divisions
- Prepare and send sanction letter to the educator
Administration of the case management process
- Drafting of emails for all parties involved
- Responding to queries through emails and telephonic
- Quality assurance of reports from prosecutors, presiding offices, and investigators
- Make inputs on internal policies, SOPs, and legal opinions
- Open case files for media reported complaints