Legal and Compliance Manager
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Society for Family Health (SFH) is hiring a Legal and Compliance Manager to lead legal, contracting, and compliance functions across its Nigeria operations and subsidiaries. The role involves drafting and vetting agreements, managing corporate secretarial duties, protecting intellectual property, and supporting regulatory and court matters. Candidates need an LLB and B.L plus at least ten years of progressively responsible legal experience.
- Senior legal leadership role covering contracts, compliance, and company secretariat
- Requires LLB, B.L, and minimum 10 years post-call legal experience
- Involves board support, CAC filings, and IP registration
- Includes court and regulatory matter support with external counsel
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Original source description
The Manager- Legal/Contracts & Compliance will be responsible for contributing to over all the legal and contracting function across SFH, Country platforms and its subsidiaries.
Reporting to the Group Director, S/He will ensure the vetting and drafting of Agreements across SFH Nigeria and its Subsidiaries/Affiliates/Platforms in line with donor, legal, regulatory, and other contractual requirements.
He/she will ensure that procurement contracts are properly drafted to ensure value for money and compliance with all requirements. S/He will provide contract management services to SFH Management and the Board. S/He will provide legal advice and opinion on any matter required by SFH.
S/He will manage the corporate and secretarial function of SFH which includes preparation for Board meetings, taking of Minutes and statutory filings at the Corporate Affairs Commission.
S/He will ensure SFH Intellectual Property (IP) are filed and protected. S/He will lead in the registration of new platforms/entities and IPs to be filed and provide any other business support. S/He will lead/support contractual and regulatory compliance to ensure that SFH adheres to all its contractual, regulatory and legal obligations, thereby minimising risks.
Working with retained Legal Adviser, S/He will develop strategy and provide support for any matter in Court to ensure SFH is properly represented. S/he will also contribute to the effective mentorship of new staff in the department as well as ensure SFH culture embedment.
Requirements
- A minimum of a LLB and B.L is required;
- A minimum of ten (10) years’ experience with progressively increasing responsibility working with and advising different Clients including corporate entities, Government and Regulatory Agencies and individuals
- Excellent legal drafting and communication ability that can be shown from working with diverse Clients
- Demonstrated ability to manage company secretarial functions including taking Minutes and undertaking filings at Corporate Affairs Commission;
- Demonstrated ability to manage compliance interactions with different Regulatory Agencies
- Knowledge of advising and handling matters in different Courts for multiple Clients.
Knowledge and Skills
- Ability to draft legal documents such as contracts, bids, leases, sub-awards, and various litigation documents in a concise and clear manner using appropriate legal terms.
- Ability to systematically and efficiently manage contract creation and execution for the purpose of maximising business, financial and operational performance.
- Ability to prepare board documents and memoranda, take minutes, file necessary documents at the Corporate Affairs Commission, advise on governance and related statutory compliance needs.
- Ability to conduct research using online and other resources, know where to find the Law and apply the same to everyday and critical issues
- Ability to manage some aspect of issues that arise from matters in Court
- Ability to work with other departments to assist with SFH compliance obligations: contractual and regulatory especially requirements that are relevant to SFH entities.
- Have in-depth knowledge about commercial and corporate law and operations, structure/restructure and be able to translate that knowledge to advise the Board and Management for effective synergy.
- Application Closing Date
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