Location: Okitipupa, Ondo State
Industry: Oil Palm
Salary: N250,000 and other benefits
Experience: 5 years’ and above experience
Responsibilities:
- Review and provide legal advice on tender documents.
- Review ongoing cases and advice management accordingly.
- Liaise with relevant departments to ensure that where legal risks have been identified, appropriate courses of action have been taken.
- Provide legal protection and risk management advice to management especially on contract management.
- Provide and interpret legal information, conduct training and disseminate appropriate legal requirements to staff.
- Draft a wide variety of legal agreements.
- Provide advice on corporate legal issues and business matters.
- Provide internal advisory services to the business units and departments within the Company.
- Provide commercial legal support to all departmental projects and job functions.
- Ensure the development of service level agreements for service support and delivery.
- Monitor the maintenance of the registers and other records required to be maintained by the Company under the Companies and Allied Matters Act (CAMA).
- Provide all such other administrative and other secretaries duties as directed by the Legal Counsel & Company Secretary.
- Assist in the development of guidelines, policies, and procedures.
- Analyze and review legal agreements, legislation, and documents for the Board.
- Ensure (internal & external) compliance with laid down guidelines, policies, and procedures; investigate issues of non-compliance as may be required.
- Review and advice management on legal implications of internal policies and procedures.
- Review and draft contracts, agreements and internal policies and ensure that they are in compliance with all statutory or legal requirements.
Requirements:
- A graduate degree in law (minimum of second class upper), LLM is a plus.
- Member of the Nigerian Bar Association plus ICSAN.
- A minimum of 5 years post Call experience.
- Sound knowledge of Microsoft office applications especially Word, PowerPoint and Excel.
- Excellent written & verbal communication skills.
- Strong knowledge of corporate law, commitment and enthusiasm in the delivery of the organization’s objectives.
- Ability to exercise sound judgment and discretion.
- Good understanding of general and specific Company and commercial law.
- Excellent team working ability to ensure smooth operation.
- Excellent Organizational, time management and multitasking Skills
- Ability to work and deliver under pressure with Good Listening skills and attention to details.
- Good problem analysis and problem-solving skills.
Interested and qualified candidates can apply to recruitment@mactay.com using the job role as the subject of the mail.