job description - Legal Risk Management / Assistant Contract Officer
Legal Risk Management:
- Provide specialized legal advice, both written and oral; supervise the preparation of draft memoranda and other legal documents,
- Serves as a legal officer in one or more areas of concentration, and handles a wide range of highly complex, and often sensitive and/or conflicting legal matters involving issues relating to the company.
- Performs extensive legal research and analysis and prepares legal opinions, briefs, reports and correspondence; provides legal advice to organization and its client companies.
- Preparation and review of legal documents, instruments, contracts, templates or other material to mitigate organization’s legal risk.
- Selects relevant material, analyzes information and presents findings for internal review,
- Participates in the development, implementation and evaluation of the organization’s risk management, internal control, and other related programmes/projects, etc…; reviews relevant documents and reports; identifies problems and issues to be addressed and proposes corrective actions; liaises with relevant parties; identifies and tracks follow-up actions,
- Coordinates the organization’s risk register,
- Contributes to review and design of new, or new applications of, legal instruments, policy, guidelines, etc.
Contract Duties:
- Assist in Legal drafting
- Legal Research
- Litigation management
- Any other task as may be assigned by the Head of Department.
Competencies/ Requirements / Qualifications
- A minimum of LL.B and BL Degree
- A minimum of five (5) years’ post call experience
- Excellent legal drafting and communication ability that can be shown from working with varied Clients.
- Demonstrated ability to manage compliance interactions with various Regulatory Agencies and other stakeholders.
- Advising on and handling matters in different Courts for multiple Clients.
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