Legal Officer

• Review, draft and support negotiation of commercial agreements across Qore’s business lines, including platform agreements, vendor contracts, NDAs, data processing agreements, service agreements, standard terms and other commercial documents.
  
• Conduct legal research and prepare clear research notes, summaries, draft positions and advisory support materials for Senior Legal Lead review.
  
• Support contract lifecycle management for assigned matters, including intake, review, execution coordination, filing, renewal tracking, expiry tracking and obligation monitoring.
  
• Review counterparty mark-ups, flag deviations from standard positions and prepare comparison notes for Senior Legal Lead review.
  
• Prepare first drafts of routine legal documents, correspondence, notices, amendments, consents, contract summaries and internal legal notes.
  
• Support regulatory-adjacent legal matters, Board-facing legal preparation, governance-adjacent legal work and transaction documentation as directed by the Senior Legal Lead.
  
• Maintain documentation standards, template currency, precedent library records, clause libraries and legal repository hygiene.
  
• Coordinate execution logistics for agreements moving to signature, including signature block checks, document collation, filing and tracker updates.
  
• Work with LRCC Operations & Controls to ensure assigned legal matters are properly logged, tracked and updated in the task management system.
  
• Review AI-assisted legal outputs before escalating them to the Senior Legal Lead or relying on them for research, drafting or contract review support.
  
• Provide occasional cross-functional support to other LRCC teams in crisis or high-priority matters where legal execution support or generalist LRCC exposure is required.

Requirements

• Nigerian-qualified lawyer with LLB and BL.
  
• Minimum of 3–5 years’ post-call experience.
  
• Experience in a reputable commercial law firm and an in-house / industry role, preferably within a regulated business, financial services institution, fintech, payments company, technology company or similarly complex environment.
  
• Strong working knowledge of Nigerian commercial law, contract fundamentals, corporate law basics and the legal environment for fintech, payments or digital financial services.
  
• Good contract drafting, review and issue-spotting skills.
  
• Strong legal research ability and clear legal writing.
  
• Good generalist legal exposure across contracts, regulatory-adjacent advisory, corporate governance support, compliance-adjacent matters, data protection clauses and legal operations.
  
• Strong organisation, matter tracking and deadline management skills.
  
• Ability to manage multiple assigned matters at once and escalate early where senior legal judgment is required.
  
• Attention to detail, sound judgment and willingness to work within defined templates, playbooks, trackers and approval gates.
  
• Comfort using AI-assisted tools responsibly as part of legal research, drafting, document review and matter tracking.

Advantageous

• Experience in fintech, payments, banking infrastructure, SaaS, lending, financial services or technology contracting.
  
• Experience supporting contract repositories, legal operations, task management systems or document automation.
  
• Exposure to data protection, AML/KYC, regulatory filings or Board-facing documentation.
  

Ideal Candidate Profile

The ideal candidate is a disciplined mid-level lawyer who wants to grow into a strong commercial legal adviser. They are careful with drafting, reliable with deadlines, honest about escalation, and comfortable working in a structured legal team where quality, documentation and speed all matter. They should be able to support the Senior Legal Lead without needing every instruction broken down, while still knowing when a matter is above their authority and must be escalated.

Benefits

Qore provides the rare opportunity to make history in the financial space for Africa by Africans, while working with the smartest, brightest & coolest minds in Africa. Our people & culture team continuously thinks of innovative ways to improve employee experience and some of the other benefits of working with Qore includes: