Paralegal

Job description / Role

- Approve and/draft, format and prepare standard agreements to a high standard including confidentiality agreements, service agreements and amendments to regulatory and distribution agreements
- Ensure the procedural requirements such as contract approval forms are completed prior to signature
- Manage the contract management system for all Middle East and Africa region
- Be responsible for management of legal and compliance share points for MEA territories
- Be responsible for issuing weekly update reports to head of legal and compliance
- Obtaining of Legalizations / Notarizations
- General Administrative Support (e.g. correspondence, appointments, filing, telephone service, travels)
- Review of promotional materials
- Provide annual legal related training on legal topics as appropriate
- Support the Head of Legal and Compliance or designee in other adhoc duties such as corporate documents
- As a channel of communication to receive and direct legal issues to appropriate resources

Requirements

- Good knowledge of MS Office, Excel, SharePoint and PPT
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
- Fluent in English, Arabic and French (desired not essential)
- Strong problem-solving and excellent communication skills
- Strong skills regarding formatting, drafting and finalising contracts
- Work closely and in a collaborative manner with the team and the business people
- Capacity to approach issues not only from a legal but also from a commercial perspective
- Pragmatic, hands-on, problem-solving attitude and a high sense of priorities and urgency
- High level of integrity, ethical behavior, loyalty and trustworthiness. In addition, he/she must be firm in his/her approach and diplomatic in communication style in order to navigate between business and legal needs
- Ability to work under stress with an understanding of the different cultures and languages
- MEA regional experience is a must
- Must have a degree within the legal field

About the Company

At Cooper Fitch, we put the customer at the heart of everything we do. We provide recruitment, executive search and human resources advisory services to thousands of clients across the Middle East, we have been delivering services in the region since 1997. Our team is your team, we firmly believe in delivering first class committed search services. It is our mission to help build the best talent in the market. Our services are tailored to your every need, we have spent nearly twenty years developing an extensive database of top tier talent in the region. We also aim to help you protect and retain your people with our world-class assessment, testing and advisory facilities. We provide both valuable market updates and compensation and benefits analysis to complete the full spectrum of human resources services.