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Myrtle Management Consultants Limited
CLOSEDLegal Counsel / Document Controller
Portharcourt, Nigeria
CLOSED FOR APPLICATIONS
Legal Counsel / Document Controller
Closing: Jun 20, 2024
This position has expiredPublished: May 29, 2024 (2 months ago)
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Qualifications & Experience
- University Degree in Law
- Relevant professional qualifications.
- 3-5 years cognate work experience in any legal support role or other related areas.
- Knowledge of accounting principles, practices, and procedures
- Appreciable knowledge of fundamental principles of risk management
Key Competencies:
- Good knowledge of Corporate Law, Insurance, and Legal Compliance,
- Documentation Skills and Attention to Detail,
- Acts as Team Player - Collaborate and support colleagues across the organization, while still being able to work independently
- Contract management
- Ability to coordinate and collaborate with others
- Ability to listen, negotiate and influence all categories of people and act calmly and reasonably even under pressure
- Excellent Leadership and communication skills.
- Excellent presentation, written & verbal communication skills
Requirements:
- Abreast with relevant laws
- Stay up to date with changes in the legal framework
- Ability to interpret relevant laws and communicate same to management Digital Savviness
- Knowledge of maritime/cabotage law
- Compliance with CAMA
- Legal risk management
- Maritime Contract Management
- Managing litigation on employee injury and claims
- Secretarial engagement for the board and senior management
- Legal advisory on business and maritime issues
- Exhibit high level confidentiality at all times Knowledge of Electronic Document Management Systems (EDMS).
Remuneration
- Remuneration is competitive along with other benefits.
Responsibilities
Qualifications & Experience
- University Degree in Law
- Relevant professional qualifications.
- 3-5 years cognate work experience in any legal support role or other related areas.
- Knowledge of accounting principles, practices, and procedures
- Appreciable knowledge of fundamental principles of risk management
Key Competencies:
- Good knowledge of Corporate Law, Insurance, and Legal Compliance,
- Documentation Skills and Attention to Detail,
- Acts as Team Player - Collaborate and support colleagues across the organization, while still being able to work independently
- Contract management
- Ability to coordinate and collaborate with others
- Ability to listen, negotiate and influence all categories of people and act calmly and reasonably even under pressure
- Excellent Leadership and communication skills.
- Excellent presentation, written & verbal communication skills
Requirements:
- Abreast with relevant laws
- Stay up to date with changes in the legal framework
- Ability to interpret relevant laws and communicate same to management Digital Savviness
- Knowledge of maritime/cabotage law
- Compliance with CAMA
- Legal risk management
- Maritime Contract Management
- Managing litigation on employee injury and claims
- Secretarial engagement for the board and senior management
- Legal advisory on business and maritime issues
- Exhibit high level confidentiality at all times Knowledge of Electronic Document Management Systems (EDMS).
Remuneration
- Remuneration is competitive along with other benefits.
Legal Duties:
- Liaising with all the subsidiaries within the company’s group, service providers, external legal retainers, and government agencies working with the company secretary
- Develop and review all existing legal agreements and contracts
- Review all standing MOU/ agreements and third-party retainership, with NIMASA and associated agencies relevant to our business.
- Statutory compliance on government duties, social rights (NSITF, PENSIONS), Company and Allied Matters Act, etc.
- Prepare and file statutory returns and other miscellaneous filings at the CAC in liaison with the company’s secretary.
- Negotiating and drafting the terms in contracts, MOUs, MOAs, etc, in all business contracts and agreements.
- Stay abreast of all new legislation and anticipate unique legal issues that could impact the company from them.
- Responsible for producing legal support in controlling clients’ complaints to mitigate the risk of litigation
- Review all documentation that has legal implications for the company prior to signing and implementing. (Initiate schedule to audit all agreements on a regular basis highlighting to management any legal risks involved)
- Attend and take minutes of board meetings, board committee, and shareholders meetings, and follow through with resolutions and matters arising from board/shareholders meetings.
- Handle vessel compliance matters and statutory requirements, Track compliance due dates to ensure certificates are renewed promptly.
- Coordinate and moderate meetings (physical and virtual) and follow through on action points
- Perform other duties as assigned by the MD/CEO.
Documents Control Duties:
- Setup the Electronic Data Management System to also include acceptable document lifecycle procedures
- Track and distribute controlled documents, using the document control procedures, format, and distribution schedule.
- Familiarizing all staff with Companywide Document Control processes.
- Maintain an electronic indexing and data room of all companywide documents for easy retrieval/ location.
- Ensure correct procures format/template, number, and revision are being used.
- Ensure that numbering and revision status is being used on all documentation, drawings, and correspondence.
- Using reports to advise Management on monthly the status of documents that may be obsolete or require archiving.
- Working with ICT, support in administering the information exchange protocol, EDMS repository structure, tools, and access definitions
- Coordinate and administer the distribution of all incoming and outgoing documentation and paperwork to ensure controlled delivery to the person(s) responsible.
- Establish and maintain various files developed for projects.
- File and maintain documents in the permanent document archive
- Prepares document searches as requested by authorized personnel.
- Carry out any other task assigned
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