• Application Deadline: Wed, 7 Dec 2022 00:00:00 GMT
• Position: Contract Management and Administration Officer


• Job Type Full Time


• Qualification BA/BSc/HND


• Experience 7 years


• Location Lagos


• Job Field Law / Legal 
  

Job Description

Contract Management and Administration:

• Develop, negotiate and evaluate contracts on behalf of the Company.


• Advise and enforce the company's rights and ensure the company meets its obligations in each project by communicating expectations to relevant departments.


• Monitor key contract dates to ensure all contract terms are applied timely and correctly.


• Manage legal, project, and contracting risks of the company and ensure that any contractual or legal matter affecting the Project execution is properly addressed.


• Liaise with other departments and third-party representatives regularly to address issues that may arise from each contract renewal, contract award, contract resolution, and contract follow-up action items.


• Provide contract status reports to management for review.


• Carry out evaluations and provide close-out reports for each project and identify gaps and areas of improvement.


• Assist the other team in preparing requests and responses for contractual interpretations and providing responses to requests for contract clarification, deviations, or changes.

Compliance:

• Ensure that business operations are in line with all applicable laws, regulations, best practices, internal policies, and procedures.


• Prepare compliance documentation for statutory, legal, and regulatory purposes.


• Ensure all regulatory licenses, certificates, and permits are up to date.


• Be abreast of regulatory developments and industry initiatives and advise management accordingly.


• Develop and ensure that the company meets its compliance obligations under relevant laws and the requirements of regulatory authorities.


• Develop compliance checklists and prepare compliance reports, as and when due.

Legal:

• Negotiate, draft, and review all documents that have legal implications for the company prior to execution and implementation with third parties.


• Advise the management and other departments on legal issues and matters relating to or resulting from the company’s operations.


• Litigation and case management activities.


• Provision of legal, regulatory, and compliance support to related entities.


• Maintain legal and statutory records of the company.


• Liaise with professional advisers and consultants such as auditors, external lawyers, tax advisers, bankers, and shareholders.

Corporate Secretariat:

• Statutory compliance


• Reviewing Annual Report and accounts and reviewing or completing Companies House filings:


• Confirmation Statement filings/directors appointments and resignations/maintaining statutory registers.


• Board Support for the Companies


• Drafting board meeting agendas


• Overseeing more junior members of the team in preparing and publishing the board packs and managing preparations for board meetings


• Minute taking at the Management and Board meetings


• Writing up post-Board meeting follow-up actions


• Advising the boards on corporate governance matters


• Updating Terms of reference, carrying out Board effectiveness reviews


• Liaising with the compliance team and/ or the FCA directly, where needed


• Transaction work


• Keeping procedures and precedents up to date and in line with current regulatory


• Assisting with ad hoc group restructures, strike-offs, and projects if the team requires additional assistance


• Team tasks


• Keeping procedures and precedents up to date and in line with current regulatory requirements


• Train and support junior members of the team

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Law.


• A minimum of 7 years of working experience with at least 3 years of litigation experience and relevant experience preferably within the Oil and Gas/maritime industry.


• Being conversant with NCDMB, CAC, NPA, NIMASA, NMDPRA, NNPC and other regulators is an added advantage.


• Ability to work without supervision.


• Drafted a BIMCO contract agreement from the start to the finish stage.