Open Positions

Join the Laws.Africa team and help make African legislation freely available to everyone.

Software Developer (Python / Django)

Laws.Africa is seeking a Software Developer to design, build, and support websites and software that advance access to legal information. You will work with frontend developers and colleagues to deliver reliable products with a strong user experience. You must be available for meetings from 09:00 to 17:00 SAST. The role reports to the Chief Technology Officer.

Responsibilities

  • Design, implement, and support websites and software using Python, Django, and other appropriate technologies
  • Use agile development methods to deliver high-quality software efficiently, on time, and within available resources
  • Collaborate with frontend developers so backend and frontend components work effectively together
  • Apply and promote good software development practices, and advocate for users throughout development
  • Contribute to relevant organisational activities and travel when required

Requirements

  • Practical experience developing web applications with Python and Django
  • Ability to integrate backend and frontend components, diagnose problems, and maintain dependable software
  • Experience of collaborative, agile development and a commitment to code quality and usability
  • Clear communication, independent working skills, and an interest in improving access to legal information

Position: Fixed-term consultancy
Remuneration: Dependent on experience
Location: South Africa or Kenya (remote)
Start date: 1 October 2026

Project Manager – Digitisation

Laws.Africa is hiring a Project Manager to plan and deliver the digitisation of African legal materials at scale: gazettes, judgments, legislation, and other bulk collections. The content this work produces reaches over a million people a year and supports the rule of law, business, government, and human rights across the continent. This is a project and people management role first. Our delivery runs across several countries, several teams, and a mix of internal staff and contractors. It succeeds or fails on whether somebody is holding the plan, the sequence, the handovers, and the deadlines. That is the job. You do not need digitisation experience. We will teach you our scanning workflows, quality standards, and tooling. What we cannot easily teach is running complex work to a deadline across several teams. If you have done that and can show us how, we want to hear from you.

Responsibilities

  • The plan. Turn high-level priorities into work plans, schedules, and milestones across countries and projects, and scope new projects from start to finish
  • The people. Allocate work to digitisation staff and contractors, track progress, give feedback, and keep distributed teams pulling in the same direction
  • The quality bar. Maintain the checks that keep digitised content usable by our editorial, website, and product teams, and fix recurring problems through better documentation, guidance, and training
  • The visibility. Report on throughput, turnaround times, error rates, and capacity, and escalate risks and delays early rather than late

How we work

  • We are a small team that values ownership and clear accountability
  • We work remotely, across South Africa, Kenya, and elsewhere
  • We prioritise predictable delivery and follow-through over heroics
  • We would rather hear about a problem early, with a proposed solution, than hear a reassurance that turns out to be wrong

Requirements

  • Three or more years running projects from start to finish, with real accountability for the deadline and the outcome
  • Evidence of delivering work that ran across more than one team, where the parts had to be sequenced rather than simply done in parallel
  • Experience managing staff and contractors, including holding people to commitments when you have no authority to compel them
  • Clear written communication; most of our coordination happens in writing
  • The judgement to prioritise when everything looks urgent, and to raise problems early with a proposed solution
  • Based in South Africa or Kenya, and able to travel nationally and internationally when required

Useful, but not required

  • Formal project management training; we care considerably more about what you have delivered than about what you are certified in
  • Experience with digitisation, publishing, data processing, or similar production pipelines
  • Familiarity with legal or government content

How to apply

There are three parts to the application, and we will not consider an application that is missing any of them.

  • Assignment: Complete the short planning assignment. It should take 60 to 90 minutes; please do not spend longer on it
  • Cover letter: Write it in the application form
  • CV: Include your CV with the submission

Submit all three parts through the application form. There is nothing to email. We read the assignment before we read the CV. If you have questions about the role, email jobs@laws.africa.

Position: Full-time
Location: South Africa or Kenya (remote)

Project Manager

Laws.Africa is seeking a Project Manager to plan and coordinate our activities and programmes, manage delivery against budgets and timelines, and work with clients and partners to achieve agreed results. You must be available from 09:00 to 17:00 SAST. The role reports to the Director of Strategy, Growth & Partnerships.

Responsibilities

  • Plan and coordinate programmes and project activities to achieve agreed scope and deliverables
  • Track progress, prepare written updates, and identify and manage delivery risks
  • Monitor budgets and milestones to support timely, cost-effective delivery
  • Meet clients and stakeholders and represent Laws.Africa at events and workshops
  • Organise and deliver events and workshops, and travel as required

Requirements

  • An LLB or a degree in a directly related field from a recognised institution
  • A project management qualification or certification
  • At least five years of relevant work experience
  • Excellent written and spoken communication and negotiation skills, with strong analytical, strategic thinking, and leadership abilities
  • Integrity, initiative, creative thinking, and a results-focused approach; ability to work within budgets and timelines, learn, and share knowledge
  • A postgraduate degree and a strong track record in legal information publishing are advantages

Position: Fixed-term consultancy
Remuneration: Dependent on experience
Location: South Africa or Kenya (remote)
Start date: 1 October 2026

Project Manager – Product Owner

Laws.Africa is seeking a Project Manager – Product Owner to connect user needs with software delivery and help ensure projects remain within scope, on time, and within budget. You must be available for meetings from 09:00 to 17:00 SAST. The role reports to the Chief Technology Officer.

Responsibilities

  • Gather and document requirements through stakeholder engagement, user research, and feedback
  • Help maintain and prioritise a clearly defined product backlog and contribute to the product roadmap
  • Run sprint planning and work with developers to align tasks with product priorities and requirements
  • Check delivered features against acceptance criteria and quality expectations
  • Keep stakeholders informed of progress and user feedback, and maintain useful, accessible product documentation
  • Provide product support and training, advocate for a high-quality user experience, and travel when required

Requirements

  • Practical experience coordinating digital projects or supporting product ownership
  • Ability to translate user needs into clear requirements and prioritised work
  • Working understanding of agile delivery, sprint planning, and acceptance criteria
  • Strong organisation, documentation, and communication skills, including the ability to work with technical and non-technical colleagues
  • A user-focused approach, confidence providing support and training, and an interest in accessible legal information

Position: Fixed-term consultancy
Remuneration: Dependent on experience
Location: South Africa or Kenya (remote)
Start date: 1 October 2026

Training Manager

Laws.Africa is hiring a Training Manager to own and deliver training, customer education, and user-facing learning materials across our platforms and Legal Information Institutes (LIIs). The Training Manager will ensure that users, partners, editors, customers, and other stakeholders understand how to use Laws.Africa's products and platforms effectively. This includes not only coordinating training, but also personally delivering high-quality sessions and presentations, developing standardised training materials, maintaining videos and documentation, and ensuring that all training resources are well organised, correctly linked, accurate, consistent, engaging, and up to date. The Training Manager should become a confident subject matter expert on Laws.Africa's platforms, products, services, and approach to legal information. They should be able to independently represent Laws.Africa and our work in meetings, workshops, conferences, demonstrations, and training sessions across audiences. The Training Manager is responsible for the day-to-day management and continuous improvement of Laws.Africa's training and customer education programme. This includes identifying training needs, designing learning programmes, delivering training, maintaining training resources, measuring effectiveness, and working closely with product, customer success, editorial, operations, and technical teams to ensure that our users receive consistent and effective support.

Responsibilities

  • Act as the internal owner and primary point of contact for training and customer education
  • Own Laws.Africa's training and customer education programme across products and countries
  • Build strong knowledge of Laws.Africa's products, features, workflows, and mission; design practical training programmes for different platform audiences
  • Maintain training materials so they are accurate, up to date, and follow consistent branding, messaging, quality, and presentation standards
  • Develop reusable training programmes and standardised slides, guides, exercises, scripts, FAQs, and other materials that can be adapted across countries
  • Own and maintain Laws.Africa's training and instructional video library, including identifying video needs and developing scripts and demonstrations
  • Regularly review and update training materials as products and workflows change
  • Work with product and technical teams to keep training resources aligned with updates, and with customer success to turn recurring user feedback into useful training and support materials
  • Coordinate training logistics, including schedules, participants, venues, platforms, materials, and follow-up
  • Coordinate localisation and adaptation of training materials where required, ensuring platform differences are accurately reflected while maintaining Laws.Africa standards
  • Develop train-the-trainer programmes where appropriate
  • Develop and maintain a central, structured repository of approved training materials so the team can find and use the latest slides, videos, guides, templates, and supporting resources
  • Represent Laws.Africa at conferences, workshops, user engagements, and other events, virtually and in person
  • Gather participant feedback and measure training effectiveness and learning outcomes
  • Manage, track, and report on training delivery, engagement, satisfaction, and knowledge gaps; work with the Product Owner to improve product adoption
  • Stay up to date with good practices in customer education, training, digital learning, and documentation

How we work

  • We're a small team that values ownership and clear accountability.
  • We work remotely, across South Africa and other countries.
  • We prioritise predictable delivery and follow-through over heroics.
  • We expect people to take ownership of their area of work, identify problems early, and propose practical solutions.

Requirements

  • Strong experience delivering professional training, workshops, presentations, or customer education programmes
  • Excellent facilitation, presentation, and public-speaking skills
  • Proven ability to design engaging training programmes and learning materials
  • Strong written communication and content-development skills
  • Experience creating digital learning content, including videos, webinars, tutorials, and help resources
  • Ability to quickly understand complex products and explain them clearly to different audiences
  • Strong organisational and project-management skills, with the ability to manage multiple training activities
  • Ability to work independently, take ownership, prioritise effectively, and proactively solve problems
  • Comfortable using feedback and data to measure and improve training effectiveness
  • Experience working collaboratively with product, customer success, technical, editorial, and operations teams
  • Experience in customer education, product training, learning and development, legal technology, or professional education is an advantage
  • Familiarity with the legal sector, legal research, or Legal Information Institutes is an advantage
  • Comfortable working across different countries and cultures and travelling nationally and internationally when required
  • Based in South Africa or Kenya

Position: Full-time
Location: South Africa or Kenya (remote)