Legal Counsel at Engie Africa

The Legal counsel will be responsible for providing Legal support to the mini-grid business of ENGIE Energy Access.

Responsibilities

Provide general legal advice on all activities of the and more specifically: 

• Support the General Counsel in day-to-day responsibilities, especially providing direct and practical legal advise to the internal clients.
• Work closely with the General Counsel, the local entities and Finance Director to draft, review and negotiate a broad variety of commercial agreements with clients, vendors, and business partners (supply agreements, customer contracts, construction, grant agreements, confidentiality, shareholding and JV agreements, IP licenses, etc).
• Assist with General Corporate work.
• Support operational implementation of risk, ethics and data privacy policies.
• Manage outside counsel on litigation and other matters.
• Collaborate with other members of the legal team to continually improve. internal client service, build efficient processes and drive business value.
• Implement operational best practices in respect of discipline.
• Provide informative and engaging Board level reporting as needed.

Key relations are as follows:

Main Internal Interfaces:

• ENGIE Group and Engie Energy Access Legal Team
• ENGIE Energy Access management and business development teams (countries & Global) 
• ENGIE Energy Access business development, commercial and technical support teams 
• ENGIE Energy Access Transversal Business function.
• ENGIE Energy Access Global HR team 

External Interfaces:

• External Clients
• External Legal Counsel
• Strategic Partners

Qualification & Experience:

• Minimum 4-6 Post qualification experience with a strong emphasis on Business, Finance, International mindset, leadership, commercial contracts, and complex transactions.
• Combination of law firm and inhouse experience preferred.
• Qualified to practice law in the country of location.
• Qualified or working experience in consulting and contract Law.
• Understanding project development.
• Experience in drafting agreements in both English and French.

Knowledge and skills 

• Strong interpersonal, problem solving and communication skills.
• Ability to understand full scope of business operations and advise on both business and legal implications of various actions.
• Strong ability and willingness to be flexible and adaptable and build cross-functional and cross-organization relationships in a complex global environment.
• Proven track record of learning quickly, taking initiative and working proactively.
• Ability to work with a diverse and international group of people.
• Good presentational skills.
• Exceptional drafting and negotiating skills.
• Demonstrated ability to meet tight deadlines.