Careers

Description of the Position: As a key member of the Management team, the Legal Officer reports directly to the Chief Executive Officer. The successful candidate will assume a strategic role in the overall management and advisory role of the PNGAIC legal matters and challenges.

Key Accountabilities:

• Providing legal advice to the Board, CEO and the Management.
• Researching and analysing statutes, decisions, legal articles, and providing professional written and oral legal advice to AIC Board, managers, and officers.
• Drafting legislations, MOUs and other legal instruments.
• Conduct projects that may result in the drafting of legal guidance, amendments to Acts and Rules/Regulations affecting the Commission, and conducting legal research on topics related to the AIC’s core business
• Provide legal advice on the Annexes to the Convention on International Civil Aviation and AIC compliance requirements.
• Represent the AIC on all legal matters and appear for AIC in administrative tribunals, arbitration tribunals, court hearings and dispute settlements.
• Provide legal advice in support of the AIC’s core business, transport accident and serious incident investigation.
• Provide legal advice including on AIC Corporate, Financial, Human Resource Management, and Information Technology matters.
• Other duties as directed in support of the CEO and Board.

Minimum Qualification/Requirements:

• Bachelor of Laws Degree with more than 5 years post admission experience, and a registered member of PNG Law Society.
• Proven experience researching and analysing statutes, decisions, legal articles, and providing professional written and oral legal advice to AIC Board, managers and officers with a proven strong sense of urgency and results orientation.
• Demonstrated ability and proven experience drafting legislation and other legal instruments, and liaising with the State Solicitor and other relevant legal entities.
• Proven legal representational experience and demonstrated ability to appear in administrative tribunals, arbitration tribunals National and Supreme.
• Well-developed oral and written communication skills, with a demonstrated ability to compile concise, logical, considered and technically correct reports meeting Public Service and Legal reporting requirements and standards.
• Demonstrated ability to represent the AIC at meetings, conferences and other forums, making speeches and presentations on relevant topics.
• Demonstrated interpersonal skills of a high order, having a cooperative and supportive attitude and ability to learn and work as an individual or as a member of a multi-disciplinary team. Ability to liaise with a variety of individuals and organisational representatives from differing cultural backgrounds.
• Demonstrated experience using MS Office Applications.

Full details of salary, conditions of employment and job description shall be obtained during the interview.

Please address your applications including relevant certificates together with recent updated CVs to:

The A/Chief Executive Officer

Accident Investigation Commission

P O Box 1709, BOROKO,  111 NCD.

Email applications to jobs@aic.gov.pg. Alternatively, you can scroll to the top of this page and click on "Email Now" to be directed to the email link.

Applications close on 21 June 2024. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted to progress to the next step. If you do not hear from us within two weeks of the closing date of application, then you may consider your application unsuccessful.