Maritime Contracts, Compliance and Legal Officer at HR-EX Consulting

HR-EX Consulting partners with small businesses looking for affordable HR professional advisory and services. In practice, we operate as an outsourced HR department and provide professional HR services for small businesses for a fraction of the cost of hiring a full-time staff.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Maritime Contracts, Compliance and Legal Officer

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Contract

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 risk of the company and ensure that any contractual or legal matter affecting the project execution is addressed correctly.
• 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, 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 answers 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.

Qualifications

• 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 maritime industry.
• Being conversant with NCDMB, CAC, NPA, NIMASA, and other regulators is an added advantage.
• Ability to work without supervision.

Salary
N300,000 - N400,000 monthly.

Application Closing Date
15th September, 2022.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV and Cover Letter to: [email protected] using the Job Title as the subject of the mail.