Legal

About Midas Project

Creating a sustainable future in the educational and social enterprise sector entails meeting up with the challenges of a fast-changing and unpredictable globalized world through innovations. Midas Project is a next-generation technology development startup that focuses on driving innovation in education sector and helping to create, nurture and develop social enterprises.

It allows for sharing of African stories and a social support system, via its hub initiative. We are a community of social innovators leveraging technology to proffer solutions to societal problems.

Job Description: 

The Legal personnel will provide legal guidance to the company as well as apply knowledge of Nigerian law system to the day-to-day dealings with clients and staff. 

Duties & Responsibilities

- Improve profitability and efficiency using legal practice knowledge.

- Advise solutions for client development strategies, marketing and productivity.

- Consult on legal and program issues to actively manage risks.

- Analyze problems and develop solutions for meeting parent company’s objectives.

- Review, draft and negotiate legal documents.

- Perform legal research and analysis on qualified retirement plans, insurance and securities.

- Perform legal research and analysis of ERISA and tax laws on retirement plan design, operations and transactions.

- Review process breakdowns impacting retirement clients, resolve operational issues and determine and suggest proposed action course.

- Support clients to gather facts on resolving litigation, subpoenas and complaints, analyze individual disputes and conduct legal research to execute a course of action.

- Draft regulatory filings with insurance regulators or SEC and review and file prospectuses.

- Monitor staff to budget, record hold orders and retention policies, covenant certification processes, legal inventory, knowledge management and business continuation.

- Monitor legal and regulatory developments and analyze legally with required execution.

Qualifications & Requirements: 

- A first degree with second class upper and above in a discipline relevant to the position

- Post-graduate certification will be a plus

- Excellent verbal and written communication skills with a strong command of English.

- Strong time management and project management skills.

- A “Can Do” attitude, enthusiastic and energetic personality with leadership skill.

- Resourceful, with flexible approaches to challenges.

- Poses strong business sense to strive and to find the best solution for our clients.

Added Advantage: 

- Young candidate with good research skill encouraged

- Experience in a consulting or investment banking field

- Multi-country education or work experience with diversity in function

- A Nigeria lover or neutral