Legal Risk Management/Assistant Contract Officer at Eta-Zuma Group W/A Limited

Job Responsibilities

Legal Risk Management

• Provide specialized legal advice, both written and oral; supervise the preparation of draft memoranda and other legal documents,
• Serves as a legal officer in one or more areas of concentration, and handles a wide range of highly complex, and often sensitive and/or conflicting legal matters involving issues relating to the company.
• Performs extensive legal research and analysis and prepares legal opinions, briefs, reports and correspondence; provides legal advice to organization and its client companies.
• Preparation and review of legal documents, instruments, contracts, templates or other material to mitigate organization’s legal risk.
• Selects relevant material, analyzes information and presents findings for internal review,
• Participates in the development, implementation and evaluation of the organization’s risk management, internal control, and other related programmes/projects, etc…; reviews relevant documents and reports; identifies problems and issues to be addressed and proposes corrective actions; liaises with relevant parties; identifies and tracks follow-up actions,
• Coordinates the organization’s risk register,
• Contributes to review and design of new, or new applications of, legal instruments, policy, guidelines, etc.

Contract Duties

• Assist in Legal drafting
• Legal Research
• Litigation management
• Any other task as may be assigned by the Head of Department.

Competencies/ Requirements / Qualifications

• A minimum of LLB and BL Degree
• A minimum of five (5) years’ post call experience
• Excellent legal drafting and communication ability that can be shown from working with varied Clients.
• Demonstrated ability to manage compliance interactions with various Regulatory Agencies and other stakeholders.
• Advising on and handling matters in different Courts for multiple Clients.