Background

This role is within the Rwanda Development Board (RDB).

Job Responsibilities

• Conduct detailed legal evaluation of simplified insolvency cases, including verification of creditor claims and compliance with legal requirements.
• Draft legal documents such as notices, restructuring plans, decisions, and final reports.
• Support the team leader in managing disputes, objections, and emerging legal issues.
• Provide legal opinions on complex cases and propose legally sound solutions.
• Engage with the appeal committee, courts, creditors, debtors, and other actors regarding legal matters.
• Identify legal risks and advise on improvements to procedures and templates.
• Participate in training, awareness, and capacity-building activities related to simplified insolvency.
• Perform any other duties assigned to her/him by the hierarchical supervisors

Key Competencies Required

• Strong knowledge of commercial and insolvency law
• Excellent legal drafting and document review abilities
• Ability to evaluate creditor claims and legal issues objectively
• Ability to assess complex legal and factual scenarios
• Strong interpretation and application of statutory provisions
• Problem-solving skills in dispute or objection handling
• Ability to explain legal requirements clearly to non-lawyers
• Skilled in drafting notices, decisions, and legal correspondence
• Good stakeholder engagement skills (creditors, debtors, district offices, courts)
• Ability to work under pressure and manage multiple cases simultaneously
• Proficiency in MS Office
• Strong command of written and spoken English and Kinyarwanda;
• Proficiency in French is an added advantage;
• Being Certified member of the Bar Association is an added advantage;

Note

Candidates holding a Bachelor’s degree are preferably required to have experience in insolvency matters.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Law
• 4 Years of relevant experience
• Master’s Degree in Commercial Law
• 2 Years of relevant experience
• Master’s Degree in Business Law
• 2 Years of relevant experience

Required Competencies and Key Technical Skills

• Leadership skills
• Good interpersonal communication skills & ability to work with others under pressure and solve problems
• Confidentiality, ethical and teamwork skills;
• Ability to work with confidential or sensitive information with discretion
• Exceptional leadership, time management, facilitation, and organizational skills.
• Psychometric Languages
• English

• Conduct detailed legal evaluation of simplified insolvency cases, including verification of creditor claims and compliance with legal requirements.
• Draft legal documents such as notices, restructuring plans, decisions, and final reports.
• Support the team leader in managing disputes, objections, and emerging legal issues.
• Provide legal opinions on complex cases and propose legally sound solutions.
• Engage with the appeal committee, courts, creditors, debtors, and other actors regarding legal matters.
• Identify legal risks and advise on improvements to procedures and templates.
• Participate in training, awareness, and capacity-building activities related to simplified insolvency.
• Perform any other duties assigned to her/him by the hierarchical supervisors

• Strong knowledge of commercial and insolvency law
• Excellent legal drafting and document review abilities
• Ability to evaluate creditor claims and legal issues objectively
• Ability to assess complex legal and factual scenarios
• Strong interpretation and application of statutory provisions
• Problem-solving skills in dispute or objection handling
• Ability to explain legal requirements clearly to non-lawyers
• Skilled in drafting notices, decisions, and legal correspondence
• Good stakeholder engagement skills (creditors, debtors, district offices, courts)
• Ability to work under pressure and manage multiple cases simultaneously
• Proficiency in MS Office
• Strong command of written and spoken English and Kinyarwanda;
• Proficiency in French is an added advantage;
• Being Certified member of the Bar Association is an added advantage;
• Leadership skills
• Good interpersonal communication skills & ability to work with others under pressure and solve problems
• Confidentiality, ethical and teamwork skills;
• Ability to work with confidential or sensitive information with discretion
• Exceptional leadership, time management, facilitation, and organizational skills.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Law
• 4 Years of relevant experience
• Master’s Degree in Commercial Law
• 2 Years of relevant experience
• Master’s Degree in Business Law
• 2 Years of relevant experience