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Full Time |
Lagos |
Posted 8 months ago |
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Legal and Compliance Officer
Location: Victoria Island, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time
Job Responsibilities
Contract Management and Administration:
- Develop, negotiate and evaluate contracts on behalf of the Company.
- Advise and enforce the company rights and ensure the company meets its obligations in each project by communicating expectations to relevant departments.
- Monitor key contract dates to ensure all contract terms are applied timely and correctly.
- Manage legal, project and contracting risk of the company and ensure that any contractual or legal matter affecting the Project execution is properly addressed.
- Liaise with other departments and third-party representative regularly to address issues that may arise from each contract renewal, contract award, contract resolutions and contract follow-up action items.
- Provide contract status reports to management for review.
- Carry out evaluations and provide close out reports for each project and identify gaps and areas of improvement.
- Assist the other team in preparing requests and responses for contractual interpretations and providing responses to requests for contract clarification, deviations or changes.
Compliance:
- Ensure that business operations are in line with all applicable laws, regulations, best practices, internal policies and procedures.
- Prepare compliance documentation for statutory, legal, and regulatory purposes.
- Ensure all regulatory licences, certificates, permits are up to date.
- Be abreast of regulatory developments and industry initiatives and advise management accordingly.
- Develop and ensure that the company meets its compliance obligations under relevant laws and the requirements of regulatory authorities.
- Develop compliance checklists and prepare compliance reports, as and when due.
Legal:
- Negotiate, draft and review all documents that has legal implications for the company prior to execution and implementation with third parties.
- Advise the management and other departments on legal issues and matters relating to or resulting from the company’s operations.
- Litigation and case management activities.
- Provision of legal, regulatory and compliance support to related entities.
- Maintain legal and statutory records of the company.
- Liaise with professional advisers and consultants such as auditors, external lawyers, tax advisers, bankers and shareholders.
Qualifications and Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in law
- At least 5 years post qualification experience inclusive of 2 years admiralty litigation experience.
- Prior knowledge of BIMCO contracts and other maritime contracts
- Special knowledge of regulatory compliance with NUPRC, NIMASA, NCDMB, NPA etc.
- Ability to work without supervision.
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
HOW TO APPLY
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: [email protected] using the Job Title as the subject of the mail.
Note: Only qualified candidates will be contacted.
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