Job Purpose
UAE - Assist the Legal Team in providing legal advisory services, administrative, transactional and operational support in accordance with Nawah legal standards, policies and procedures.
Key Activities, Responsibility & Accountability
Legal Advisory Services
Responsibilities and Accountabilities:
- Conduct legal research and assists in data gathering for legal matters by referring to specialized databases, legal libraries and other sources of information to form legal opinions, advice and recommendations.
- Assist in the drafting of legal opinions, advice and recommendations on various legal and contractual matters to prevent risks and protect company assets.
- Assist in the reviewing and preparing of contractual documents to ensure that risks to Nawah are mitigated in contract negotiations.
- Assist in the reviewing and analyzing of legal documents in answer to functional queries to mitigate risks and prevent disputes.
- Assist in the preparation of presentations on legal and regulatory matters to train and create awareness in the business.
Transactional and Operational Support
Responsibilities and Accountabilities:
- Assist in the preparation of legal reports, memoranda and other documentation to meet business requirements.
- Provide administrative support in obtaining approval for documents and activities related to Nawah governance such as registration, power of attorney, etc. to ensure that regulatory requirements are met.
- Assist in the development and review of standard templates and formats for legal or contractual documents to ensure standardization of legal and contractual positions and improve efficiency in contracting.
- Create purchase requisitions in order to fulfill the Legal Departments requirements.
- Create and manage a legal database for tracking, among other things; Service entry sheets (SES), Purchase Requisitions (PR's) and Task Orders.
- Review and prepare financial documents and invoices relating to legal services.
- Liaise with external stakeholders/suppliers in order to obtain support services for the Legal Department with support from senior legal management.
- Liaise with internal stakeholders for the development of solutions to questions or enquiries regarding legal issues to ensure that a suitable solution is in line with legal or regulatory requirements.
- Develop and review legal policies and procedures as required by the Legal Team to ensure that standards of work are documented.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Law.
- 0 years of relevant experience.
- Or equivalent as stated in the Job Description Procedure (HR-PRC-0004).
•Master's degree from a major law school.