Head Legal at Raritan Consult Limited

You are expected to

• Work as part of the team across different location
• participate in team tasks
• Provide input to design and architecture solution
• Follow and improve development process and standard
• Ensure delivery, quality and security
• Learn continuously
• Innovate ceaselessly

Job Description

Qualifications

Requirements/Skills:

•     Should have a minimum of 16 years post call experience, 5 of which must be core experience in senior role in a law firm or commercial oil and gas environment personality traits
•     Good team spirit
•     Excellent business judgment and ability to apply business solutions to legal problems
•     Demonstrated planning and organizational skills, including the ability to anticipate tasks, set priorities, meet deadlines, and function smoothly under strict deadlines and shifting priorities
•     Ability to think strategically and to envision and balance working relationships
•     Law degree and professional legal qualification and must be called to the Nigerian bar
•     Excellent writing and negotiation skills
•     Strong academic background and capable of applying jurisprudence in real situations
•     Very strong legal contracting skills
•     Influencing, negotiating and facilitation skills
•     Ability to work as part of a team and with both internal and external stakeholders with diverse cultural backgrounds
•     Strong commercial legal background along with extensive demonstrable negotiation skills
•     Must be well versed in west African legal and regulatory frameworks such the Nigerian petroleum sharing contract (PSC) and other west african regulatory regimes
•     Working knowledge of joint operating agreement (JOA) and crude handling agreements (CHA)
•     Knowledge of the draft Nigerian petroleum industry bill (PIB) would be an added advantage
•     Relevant experience of most energy and natural resource laws
•     Good verbal and written communication skills
•     Good drafting skills
•     Fluent written and spoken English