The Role
The legal officer supports legal and secretariat functions, oversees contract administration, conducts legal audits, manages compliance risks, and interfaces with external consultants while ensuring effective board communications and governance processes.
Summary Generated by Built In
The legal officer will support the legal and secretariat functions at lESL by ensuring effective board communications, organizing board meetings, providing contract administration, and advising on corporate governance. Their role includes preventing statutory and contractual liabilities, promoting best practices, and reducing legal and compliance costs.
Job Description
Oversee and supervise the review and administration of contracts including but not limited to MOA, commercial agreements, leases and all other commercial legal instruments.
Ensure the conduct of regular internal legal audit / internal due diligence with respect to company’s contracts.
Ensure up-to-date maintenance of accurate database including documentation management and information reporting with respect to all contracts.
Promptly monitor and advise on identified and potential legal and contracts risks, threats and developments in the company’s legal and regulatory environment including key regulatory issues that affect company’s contracts such as local content, business approvals, environmental compliance etc.
Support Internal Audit and responsible departments to ensure the administering of the compliance risks register of the company
Interface and monitor external consultants and solicitors (where applicable) for effective delivery of legal jobs / assignments including company’s litigation and pre-litigation portfolios
Support the functions of legal personnel including the affairs of the legal & secretariat dept under the supervision of the department manager
Develop and implement governance processes, relevant legal policies, compliance training, performance budgets, SLAs, and other budgets concerning the department.
Requirements
Minimum of 6 to 8 years post-call-to-bar experience with bias for company laws, corporate secretariat and governance practice.
· Memberships of Institute of Chartered Secretaries & Administrators of Nigeria (ICSAN) is highly preferred.
· Very strong corporate backgrounds preferably from reputable or high standard organization s (not necessarily from a big corporation)
· Strong academic background and capable of applying jurisprudence and tactfulness in real situations
High confidence and mannerliness to deal with top ranking officials including executive and non- executive directors
Ability to maintain high confidentiality in processing of board decisions, deliberations and information.
Ability to work as part of a team and with both internal and external stakeholders with diverse cultural backgrounds
Sufficient knowledge of the oil & gas business regulatory framework and environment would be an added advantage. Relevant experience of energy industry and engineering laws.
Ability to act as Company’s spoke-person and governance advocate and ambassador.
LLB, BL
MBA or MSC in Corporate Governance is an advantage
Memberships of (Institute of Chartered Secretaries & Administrators of Nigeria (ICSAN) is highly preferred.
Benefits
500,000
Skills Required
- Minimum of 6 to 8 years post-call-to-bar experience
- Memberships of Institute of Chartered Secretaries & Administrators of Nigeria (ICSAN)
- Strong corporate backgrounds preferably from reputable organizations
- Strong academic background capable of applying jurisprudence
- High confidence to deal with top ranking officials
- Ability to maintain confidentiality in processing board decisions
- Experience in oil & gas business regulatory framework
- LLB, BL, potentially MBA or MSC in Corporate Governance
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The Company
What We Do
Total Data Limited is a management consultancy firm that specializes in providing end-to-end HR services.
