General Counsel at A Newspaper Company

We are a Leading Newspaper in Nigeria with wide national spread. As part of our growth strategy and to further consolidate our market share, our company is recruiting to fill the below position:

Job Title: General Counsel

Job Purpose
The ideal candidate will provide overall legal responsibility to the company.

Job Responsibilities
The ideal candidate will be responsible for the following:

• Examine for legal implications advertisements and other such materials/documents meant for publication
• Manage, relationships with external solicitors
• Provide internal legal advisory services
• Provision of a broad range of corporate professional services
• Give legal advice on agreements/memorandum of understanding/contracts etc
• Ensure compliance with various statutory requirements of the law and monitor changes in regulatory environment
• Provide services as may be required from time to time.

Qualifications,  Skills and Experience
The ideal candidate must have the following:

• Good first degree in Law from a reputable institution
• An additional qualification in Mass Communication or higher degree such as LLM will be an added advantage
• Must have a minimum of 8 years of proven post-call practice.
• Previous experience in a media organization will be an added advantage
• Must have extensive knowledge of law of libel
• Must have good knowledge of Microsoft office suite, Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
• Ideal age should be between 30 - 45 years.

Remunerations  
Very Attractive

Application Closing Date
4th February, 2013

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should forward their curriculum vitae in a pdf format to: legalcounselrecruitment@gmail.com

Only shortlisted applicants would be contacted.