Legal Officer at Amani Solutions

Amani Advisory Limited - Our client, a reputable international energy trading business with an unparalleled downstream network and experience providing top-notch goods and services, is recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Legal Officer

Location: Oniru, Victoria Island, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Summary

• The Legal Officer is responsible for undertaking legal research, secretarial, administrative, and related tasks, and supports the Department in the provision of legal advisory and related services to the organization in the pursuit of corporate goals, and to manage legal risks.

Responsibilities

• Provide general legal advice on diverse issues as directed
• Support the provision of legal advisory services and related services, by undertaking tasks assigned
• Undertake legal research, consultation, and liaison to gather information on specific issues
• Keep abreast of applicable laws, regulations, statutory requirements, and changes; distill implications for the business and advise management and responsible officers accordingly;
• Preparation of Monthly Legal Bulleting for the Business
• Enquiries and information from regulatory agencies
• Draft legal documents, contracts, letters, reports, etc.
• Respond to correspondence as directed
• Manage the departmental filing system and structure
• Maintains dockets and calendars for departmental functions
• Serve as secretary and perform secretarial duties for assigned committees and meetings; take minutes of meetings, action plans and circulate to participants
• Draft legal documents, contracts, letters, reports, etc
• Respond to correspondence as directed
• Manage the departmental filing system and structure
• Maintains dockets and calendars for departmental functions
• Assignment turnaround time; timely reporting, filing, and completion of assigned work
• Quality of research, error rate of legal writing (documents), advice, and insights generated
• Feedback from internal clients
• Savings from litigation and other dispute resolutions
• Legal expenses, penalties incurred for assigned work areas
• Effective resolution of conflict; success rate
• Serve as secretary and perform secretarial duties for assigned committees and meetings; take minutes of meetings, action plans and circulate to participants
• Update and manage the Regulatory Compliance Calendar
• Prepare and ensure accuracy of documents to be uploaded for Licenses & Registrations
• Manage Regulatory Portals such as SON, NAFDAC, MAN, BPP, NCMDB, etc
• Liaise with Business Units on Regulatory remittances such as ITF, NSITF, PENCOM, etc.
• Key focus on departmental liaison for Lubricants Business
• Attend and represent the organization at court and other legal hearings
• Pursue resolution of individual allocated cases proactively at all stages of the prosecution
• Provide advice/assistance to police, counsel, and other prosecuting or investigating authorities

Person Specification

• Bachelor's Degree in Law from an accredited law school with admittance into the bar
• 3 – 5 years post call experience
• Experience in corporate and commercial Law is an added advantage
• A Masters in Law is an added advantage
• Sound knowledge of the legal and regulatory environment including laws, regulations, procedures, statutory requirements, commercial and corporate law
• Self-motivated
• Interpersonal and relationship management skills
• Good organizational skills
• Teamwork
• Ability to travel at short notice.
• Legal research, secretarial, and advisory skills
• Ability to prepare prosecutions of moderate complexity
• Sound verbal and written communication skills, with good legal writing capabilities
• IT Skills (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, etc.
• Integrity and ethics
• Attentive to details

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should forward their CV to: [email protected] using the position as the subject of the email.

Application Deadline 15th November, 2023.