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Job title
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Lead Legal Counsel - Alternative Energy
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Grade
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Stream
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Alternative Energy
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Function
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Legal
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Location
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Oman - Muscat
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Budget control
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*OPEX and/or CAPEX and/or Revenue amount as relevant*
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Reporting to
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VP OQAE Legal
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Direct Reports
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0
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Job purpose
Provide strategic legal leadership for Alternative Energy ensuring compliance with applicable laws and regulations and representing OQAE in all legal and contractual matters with contractors, off-takers, partners, external counsel and in other business relationships.
The position will act in accordance with the Group’s Mission, Vision, Values & Strategies, as well as, policies, guidelines and international standards, Omani Law & all other governing laws, best international practice and in consonance with national objectives.
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Main tasks and responsibilities
Advisory and Transaction management
- Provide timely, professional and accurate legal support across multiple projects in various jurisdictions.
- Support OQAE Management and individual business units in ensuring delivery of company and Group objectives.
- Ensure the timely performance of all legal deliverables in line with OQAE’s business needs.
- Manage assigned legal matters independently while maintaining accountability, ensuring timely and compliant outcomes that support business objectives.
- Draft, review and negotiate EPC, O&M, PPA, SHA, financing agreements, and any ancillary agreements.
- Support mergers, acquisitions, and joint ventures in the renewable energy space. Conduct legal due diligence and structure transactions.
- Possess a broad legal knowledge with the ability to advise numerous business units on different areas of law simultaneously.
- Excellent knowledge of project financing and project delivery requirements.
- Knowledge of, and experience in, electricity generation, regulation and off-taker agreements.
- Retain and manage outside counsel, within strict pre-defined budgets, as necessary.
Governance, Risk & Compliance
- Extensive experience in compliance and corporate governance.
- Ability to deal directly with OQAE Board and Senior Management as necessary.
- Contribute to the development and implementation of departmental policies, systems, processes, procedures and controls, and continuously identify and recommend improvements while ensuring compliance with the group guidelines, international / local standards and relevant legislation.
- Liaise with Partners, and all internal business units to provide seamless legal service delivery to clients.
- Monitor contractual performance to ensure inter alia full compliance with contractual obligations, regulatory requirements and all relevant laws.
- Support the implementation of Corporate Legal policies, systems, processes, procedures and controls covering all areas of Alternative Energy that all procedural / legislative requirements are fulfilled while delivering a quality, cost-effective service in a consistent manner.
- Conduct thorough risk assessment and mitigate legal risk across project contracts
- Support planning, budgeting, forecasting and reporting practices / set of processes, as well as, documents, performance indicators (KPIs) and embed in day-to-day activities.
Leadership & Collaboration
- Act as primary legal liaison for Alternative Energy business units.
- Support and assist with the development of junior colleagues within OQAE Legal Department.
- Work collaboratively with the legal team and cross-functional stakeholders, promoting open communication, knowledge sharing, and alignment to deliver consistent, high-quality legal support across all projects.
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Key interactions
Internal: Finance, Project Delivery, Clean Energy, Business Development, Commercial, PTC
External: Partners, Lenders, Off-takers, Contractors, External Counsel
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Notable Working Conditions. Office environment, intensive computer screen use, sporadic visits to operation site.
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Education requirements
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Minimum qualification required is a bachelor’s degree in law,
Master or any other qualification is a plus.
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Language
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Excellent knowledge of written, read, and spoken English (required)
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Background and experience
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Competencies and skills
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- 8 + years’ experience in a similar role, in an international energy or oil and gas company, (transactional and operational experience required) with both Oman and overseas knowledge including in the following sectors:
- Oil (Upstream – Downstream)
- Gas
- Alternative / Renewables Energies
- Petrochemical
- Commercial for Oil products and polymers
- Oil & Energy Projects
- Strong experience in:
- Legal framework for the assigned Business Unit
- Legal Compliance,
- Legal Operation
- Corporate Law, Omani law and/or England & Wales law.
- Corporate Governance.
- Multinational contracts & agreements
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- People management skills
- Analytical skills
- Maintaining effective, accurate and transparent communication with all stakeholders
- Negotiation
- Planning skills
- Forward thinking
- ethics & guidelines
- Engages & inspires people to collaborate and share knowledge to achieve common goals
- Ensure commitment with business targets
- Innovation & continuous improvement
- Acts as an agent for change, constructively challenging the status quo
- Leads a solution-based approach to plan and deliver competitive results
- Transforms strategic insight into achieving business excellence
- Takes accountability for a performance culture that delivers continuous transformation and adds value to OQAE.
Technical Competencies:
- Excellent legal drafting and analysis
- Provide timely legal advice that adds value to OQAE operations
- Extensive knowledge of major software packages.
- Legal Operation
- Joint Venture formation and management
- Contracting & Procurement
- EPC Contracts
- Power Purchase Agreements
- Multinational contracts & agreements
- Corporate law,
- Financing
- Planning & business.
- Litigation and Arbitration.
- Project delivery and execution
- Claims & Disputes
- Excellent general legal knowledge
- Omani law or England & Wales law under Oil & Gas frame.
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