Overview

Brickstone Africa is an Infrastructure Accelerator with strong competencies in the Appraisal, Advisory and Project Development of large scale industrial; and also infrastructure projects in Africa. Brickstone’s early-stage project development competencies apply throughout the entire process of developing capital-intensive projects; but with the objective of ensuring profitability and protect its long-term asset value for sponsors.

Femi Awofala founded Brickstone Africa in 2009  as a Real Estate Advisory firm but have evolved into becoming an early-stage infrastructure accelerator in conjunction with a team of professionals having vast commercial and financial management experience range from sourcing, developing, closing and delivering equity, project/ corporate finance and other contractual structures across major infrastructure projects in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Job Position: Legal and Corporate Development Intern

Job Location: Lagos

Job Description

  • If you are Law Graduate currently (Pre-NYSC, NYSC or Post NYSC)  looking for a career in a high-energy, that  challenges you to shape your own career path outside the courtrooms, then we want to hear from you!

Job Responsibilities
Legal and Corporate Development:
You would work in a team where you will have the opportunity to work on a variety of projects, both in the context of transaction origination and deal execution. Your activities include:

  1. Market scanning to identify potential changes in the competitive landscape or overall market trends
  2. Review transaction documentation (memorandums, financials, legal documentation)
  3. Summarize and communicate your findings and conclusions to the project team
  4. Reviewing contracts, policies, and procedures.
  5. Legal research and writing.
  6. Organizing and filing contracts.

Project Presentations:
You would work in a team where your role will include:

  • Developing project research documentation for Powerpoint Slides. Every presentation you work on is different both in content and form.
  • You will be exposed to Projects in every Brickstone Practice Areas
  • You would be required to create interesting information researched content, flow charts and optimizing visuals/frameworks to convey the message, to complex data analysis charts and communication ideation to our clients.

Corporate Communications:
You would work in a team where your role will include:

  • Help team in creating content for press releases, newsletters and other marketing initiatives in line with the tonality of the communication practices followed by our company.
  • Come up with ideas for all communication across channels
  • Responsibly leverage social media platforms with appropriate tagging and help scale social media presence
  • A good understanding and interest about social media channels and best practice

Probation

  • There would be a probation period of One (1) month, upon conclusion of the probation.

Job Requirements
Technical Skills:

  • Minimum of Bachelor’s Degree in Law.
  • 0 – 2 years of relevant legal experience post Law School (NYSC Corpers are strongly encouraged to apply).
  • Familiarity with Project Management and investment regulation and project finance transactions.

Other Requirements:

  • Ability to learn new concepts quickly, Working with minimal supervision, Strong team skills
  • Well-presented with good interpersonal skills.

Payroll Consideration

  • Interns would be given a Stipend of NGN75,000 per month for an initial period of Two (2) or Three (3) months.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Tagged as: Graduate, Legal, Management Trainee

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