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Legal Counsel - Dubai, United Arab Emirates - Nathan & Nathan HR

Nathan & Nathan HR

Verified Company

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

1 month ago

Posted by:

Ahmed Al-Mansouri

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Description

Our client is a government entity in the healthcare industry at its Dubai location.

We are hiring
Legal Counsel for our client
for a 6-month duration, with the provision to extend monthly as per the requirement.

Timings: 8:00AM - 5:00PM (Monday to Friday) with 1 hour lunch break

Qualifications and Experience:

Bachelor's degree in Law and a certified lawyer
Written and spoken English is essential, Arabic is preferred
Minimum of 8 years relevant experience.

Core Responsibilities:

Supports the implementation of organizational operating policies, processes and procedures and maintains adequate controls to ensure that they are in compliance with all statutory or legal requirements in order to minimize the legal risk of the organization.
Assists the reporting manager in analysing and presenting reports pertaining to Legal matters to provide senior management with a comprehensive overview and analysis of Legal Department activity, performance and results.
Drafts and reviews the various legal documents including but not limited to the area of real estate development, general contracts, projects, and construction contracts. Also prepares, negotiates, and reviews a wide range on commercial contracts and service agreements.
Provides support to the reporting manager in all legal matters and provides oral and written advice to the business and regulatory functions on legal issues in a timely manner while ensuring consistency of approach and style.
Performs risk assessment for various contracts, review and negotiate simple and hybrid contracts related to the organization's operations from a legal point of view to ensure it is within the risk appetite of the organization.
Supports the development of business/commercial activities and also provides legal advice to all functions, projects and programs to order to mitigate the legal risk to the organization.
Drafts the communications with external bodies including the Ministry of Health, DHA, Dubai Municipality, REREA and others as required and maintains healthy business relations to obtain maximum advantage for the benefit of the organization.
Keeps abreast of various changes in the laws and regulations within the region or outside, monitors legal publications and studies the new trends related to legal practices and their impact on the current scenarios.
Develops and maintains relationships with regulatory authorities and ensures that new laws are enacted and implemented to ensure organization is operating within legal framework.

Competencies:

General Competencies
Planning and Organizing, Problem Solving and Decision Making, Result Orientation, Initiative, Knowledge Sharing and Communication.

Foundation Competencies