Job Title: Legal Officer
Location: Abuja
Reporting Line: Head, Legal unit
Job Description
- The office of the legal officer handles responsibilities that entails providing legal assistance, organizing various legal activities, completing them, creating legal documents and advising the clients or the organization on all the relevant legal and transactional issues.
Job Responsibilities
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- Ensures proper legal consultations are provided to departments / units.
- Conduct legal analysis and research on various financial matters of the client or the organization.
- Provide advice on different legal issues and assist in drafting legal opinions, memoranda and other briefing documents.
- To be actively involved in preparing and drafting of different acts and legal submissions and draft the authoritative legal opinions as well.
- Assist in reviewing the legal material and any other relevant documents and to identify the most important issues that need to be sorted out on a priority basis.
- Draw up formalities regarding the settlement of disputes and monitor the implementation of the legal clauses.
- Monitor the organisation’s legal affairs
Job Requirements
- A first class or second class upper LLB in law or in law school is required. Possession of a postgraduate degree (LLM) is an added advantage.
- 3 -5 years’ relevant experience as a legal officer
- Membership of the Nigerian Bar Association is required.
- Excellent written and verbal communication
- Willingness to learn.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV and Cover Letter to: [email protected] using the “Job title” as subject of the email.
Deadline: August 31, 2020
Job Features
Job Category | Finance Officer - Receivables |
Deadline | 31st August, 2020. |