Organisation Summary

The Fijian Competition & Consumer Commission (FCCC) is an independent statutory body established under Section 7 of the FCCC Act 2010 that promotes effective competition and informed markets, encourages fair trading, protects consumers and businesses from restrictive practices, controls prices of regulated industries and other markets where competition is lessened or limited.

Purpose & Nature of Role

As the Legal Officer, you will be responsible for various crucial tasks, including analyzing legal files and providing high-quality legal advice to the FCCC Management and teams, ensuring compliance with the FCCC Act 2010. You will play a vital role in instilling and fostering a culture of legal compliance, advocating for Ethics & Compliance throughout FCCC, and building strong relationships with external legal advisors in the region. Reporting to the Manager Legal, you will be involved in timely litigation, providing legal opinions, drafting and vetting documents, preparing contracts, interpreting laws, conducting training to raise awareness and representing the organization in assigned cases. The role encompasses core activities essential for achieving our legal goals and objectives.

Key Results Areas (KRAs)

Performance will be measured through the following indicators:

1. All assigned litigation cases researched and represented within required timelines.

2. Legal opinions drafted to the identified quality standards and provided within specified timelines.

3. All research and reports are submitted within allocated deadlines and to the quality specified

4. Effective Contract Drafting and Vetting

5. Successful case outcomes

6. Accuracy and Completeness of Legal Documents

7. Collaboration and Communication

8. Handling Confidential Information

9. Continuous Professional Development

10. Provide exemplary legal advice of the highest calibre. This advice should be thorough, well-researched, and aligned with the highest professional standards to effectively support FCCC's mission and objectives.

Key Accountabilities

1.0 Provide high-quality legal services and support on a wide range of legal activities to FCCC

• Carry out significant and complex legal research and analysis of relevant Fiji and international competition, regulatory and fair-trading laws
• Advise on the application of the relevant laws to related to FCCC work and analyse substantial and complex information while Identifying solutions to legal issues
• Draft and review significant and complex legal documents as required. Review contracts and internal business proposals to ensure legal accuracy, compliance, and alignment with FCCC’s objectives.
• Assess and mitigate departmental risk
• Providing timely updates to Complaints
• Maintain and review Price Control Orders, authorisations, and other regulatory instruments.
• Provide research on regional and international best-practice competition frameworks approach. 

2.0 To Present sound, timely high-level legal and policy advice to FCCC

• Develop presentations and present legal advice on project issues, including matters relating to competition law, market regulation and economic assesments with support from senior colleagues. 
• Communicate a succinct outline of legal issues and rationale for the opinion.
• Contribute to general tasks of project planning, budgeting and implementation by integrating legal considerations with economic impact assessments and broader competition policy objectives.
• Drafting and reviewing of Policies, guidelines, and regulatory documents relating to competition law, economic regulation, compliance frameworks, and internal FCCC procedures.

3.0 To contribute to project planning and implementation

• Provide support when requested, in coordinating specific areas, practices, projects and/or teams, including but not limited to those involving competition investigations, market studies, price control reviews, and regulatory reform initiatives.
• Act in furtherance of the theory of the case, aligning legal strategy with investigative findings, economic analysis, and FCCC’s broader enforcement objectivs.
• Identify lessons learned from a legal perspective as part of project de-brief
• Assist in the development of improvements to FCCCs processes and procedures

4.0 To effectively conduct and manage routine litigation

• Support the department on selected litigation projects and ensure critical litigation-related project dates are met
• Provide instruction and direction to external legal counsel on FCCC strategic objectives, including competition policy aims, regulatory considerations, and market-wide implications, in consultation with senior colleagues
• Conduct advocacy as determined by the project team
• Draft and review Court documents including pleadings, submissions, affidavits, and legal briefs—ensuring they accuracy.
• Ensure FCCC behaves as the model litigant by acting fairly, consistently, transparently, and in accordance with the highest professional standards. 

Qualification

Bachelor of Law degree with a Professional Diploma in Legal Practice. 

Knowledge and Experience

• Professionally qualified under the Legal Practitioners Act 2009 and should have a minimum least three (3) years or more of post-admission litigation experience.
• Possession of a law degree with a professional/graduate diploma in legal practice.
  
• Exceptional drafting skills to prepare precise and accurate legal documents.
• Experience in Criminal/Corporate/ Civil litigation.
• Familiarity with FCCC Act 2010 and other pertinent laws.
• Demonstrated ability to follow directions and maintain high standards of professionalism.
• Knowledge of FCCC internal and external guidelines, decision-making processes, and policies (advantageous).
• Knowledge of investigation techniques and their practical application.
• Ability to follow instructions and meet set deadlines.
• Ability to work with minimal supervision.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality.
• Uphold & adhere to FCCC principles and values.
• Ethics and Compliance and governance services. Excellent customer service skills for the purpose of interacting with internal and external stakeholder. 

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