Closing Date: 04 November 2026
Key Responsibilities:
- Draft, review, and negotiate a variety of contracts, including procurement and service agreements.
- Collaborate with legal, procurement, and finance teams to develop and revise contracts, ensuring they align with organizational policies and objectives.
- Facilitate negotiations, ensuring all parties understand their obligations and rights.
- Ensure all contracts comply with legal regulations and organizational policies.
- Monitor contract timelines and deliverables, identify and mitigate potential risks, and maintain up-to-date knowledge of relevant laws and regulations.
- Manage the entire contract lifecycle, from strategy planning to execution and closeout.
- Maintain accurate records of contracts, evaluate claims, and lead dispute resolution processes.
- Notify stakeholders of claims or potential disputes and assist in compiling necessary information to defend the organization’s position.
- Collaborate with project managers to respond to queries from contractors and suppliers.
- Handle internal reporting of all commercial and contractual issues, oversee construction contract documentation, and track contract performance and compliance.
- Provide guidance and training on best practices for contract drafting, negotiation, and management.
- Develop and implement training programs to enhance contract law, compliance, and risk management skills.
- Advise senior management on contractual strategies and potential risks.
Key Requirements:
Qualification:
- BTech degree in the built environment/engineering and/or construction law
- Certification in design, built, engineering, and construction contract suites such as FIDIC, NEC, and GCC (advantageous)
Experience:
- 6+ years’ experience in contract and agreement documentation preparation, management and administration in large infrastructure, engineering, research & development and/or construction projects
- Demonstrated knowledge and experience in all aspects of contract administration and management within a large-scale and multidisciplinary project
- Experience in determining specific contract change management processes, handling claims, and resolving disputes
- Extensive knowledge of design, built, engineering and construction contract suites such as FIDIC, NEC, and GCC
- Excellent PC skills (MS Office Suite, Google Workspace, Confluence, JIRA)
Knowledge:
- Experience in negotiating commercial terms with suppliers
- A Project Management Office environment, EPC or EPCM
- Knowledge and experience of project management principles/standards
- Ability to understand and analyse details of non-contractual matters such as engineering, cost control, planning, and construction to provide relevant contractual support
- Project Management theory, principles, standards and best practice
- Public Finance Management Act
- Maintaining up-to-date knowledge of statutory procedures and technical standards.
- Cost/Schedule Integration
- Risk assessment
Additional Notes:
Skills/Ability/Competencies
- Excellent communication – both verbal and written, in English
- Good analytical and planning skills
- Efficiency in a high-pressure environment
- Proactive
- Excellent technical writing skills, with good communication and time management skills
- Problem-solving
- Ability to integrate and cooperate with engineering and non-engineering disciplines.
- Willingness to work outside normal hours