To provide high level administrative and secretarial support to the Director and senior level
management to facilitate the smooth operation of the Centre.
Duties and Responsibilities:
1. To manage an extremely active and dynamic calendar of appointments for the Director,
ensuring that he/she knows his/her schedule at least 48 hours in advance and keeping
appointments and meetings on time or changing schedules when necessary.
2. To prepare an agenda in advance for meetings scheduled by the Director; assist with and
provide research/background information, content development, and creation of
presentations, and coordinate meetings including ordering meals and refreshments,
booking meeting rooms, setting up projector or video conferencing units.
3. To serve as the Director’s administrative liaison with LDC’s Management Committee and
Senior Management.
4. To coordinate activities, such as conferences, field visits, internally and externally organised
workshops/conferences/meetings and other tasks that facilitate the Director’s ability to
effectively lead the organisation.
5. To manage external and international contacts for the Director.
6. To make arrangements for Director’s travel within Uganda and abroad including visa
applications, travel insurance, processing facilitation, flight bookings and accommodation.
7. To coordinate activities and leave schedules of all staff under the Office of the Director.
8. To conduct research relevant to operations of the Office of the Director.
9. To review correspondences (letters and email) addressed to the Director and promptly take
the appropriate follow-up actions required.
10. On own initiatives to process/compose correspondence/reports for Director’s and/or senior
management’s responses.
11. To provide support services including word processing and typing, composing and proofreading correspondence, indexing and filing documents to the Director and senior
management.
12. To supervise administrative, secretarial and other support staff in the Office of the Director.
13. To perform any other duties assigned by the Director.
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Qualifications and Experience
1. Bachelor of Laws – LLB (Hon) degree.
2. Postgraduate Diploma in Legal Practice from the Law Development Centre.
3. Must be an enrolled Advocate of the High Court of Uganda.
4. Postgraduate training in management is an added advantage.
5. Minimum of 5 years’ work-related experience, 2 of which must have been supporting senior
level Executives.
Key Competencies
 Strong written and verbal communication skills.
 Strong analytical skills.
 High integrity.
 Strong Interpersonal skills.
 Great organisation & time management skills.
 He /she must be a proactive problem solver.
 ICT and digital literacy

All eligible candidates should submit their applications with detailed and up to date CVs, certified copies of academic transcripts and certificates and any other supporting documents, day time telephone contacts and addresses of two referees (including the current employer where Mapplicable) to:
The Secretary / Head Human Resource and Administration,
Law Development Centre,
P. O. Box 7117, Kampala;
Applications clearly stating the position applied for should be hand delivered to the LDC reception at Kampala, Mbarara, Lira or Mbale campus, or soft copy sent by email in PDF format as a single file to: hr@ldc.ac.ug
Deadline: Friday 05th June, 2026 by 5:00pm
Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted