Legal Officer

Job title: Legal Officer

At UPDC FM Ltd, we specialize in comprehensive management, maintenance, and sustainable power solutions tailored for residential, corporate, and commercial properties

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title

• Legal Officer

Location

• Ikoyi, Lagos

Employment Type

• Full-time

Job Purpose

• The Legal Officer will provide comprehensive legal support and advisory services to the residential estate, ensuring that all estate operations, agreements, transactions, policies, and dispute-resolution processes are conducted in compliance with applicable laws and regulations.
• The role will support the Estate Management team in protecting the estate’s legal and commercial interests, managing contractual and resident-related matters, mitigating legal risks, and ensuring effective enforcement of estate rules, regulations, and obligations.

Key Responsibilities

Legal Advisory & Compliance:

• Provide timely legal advice to the Estate Manager, Facility Management team, management, and other relevant stakeholders on estate-related matters.
• Monitor compliance with applicable laws, regulations, statutory requirements, and estate policies.
• Identify potential legal risks arising from estate operations and recommend appropriate mitigation measures.
• Review and advise on policies, procedures, notices, circulars, and communications issued to residents, vendors, contractors, and other stakeholders.
• Maintain awareness of relevant changes in property, tenancy, labour, environmental, health and safety, and other applicable legislation.

Tenancy, Occupancy & Resident Matters:

• Review and manage tenancy, lease, occupancy, renewal, termination, and related documentation.
• Provide legal guidance on resident complaints, breaches of estate rules, unauthorized occupation, subletting, alterations, and other occupancy-related matters.
• Support the enforcement of estate rules and regulations in a fair, consistent, and legally compliant manner.
• Draft warning letters, breach notices, demand notices, notices to comply, and other legal correspondence.
• Advise management on appropriate actions relating to defaulting residents and other occupants.

Contract Management:

• Draft, review, negotiate, and advise on contracts and agreements involving the estate.
• Review agreements with contractors, vendors, service providers, consultants, security companies, maintenance providers, and other third parties.
• Ensure contractual obligations, liabilities, termination provisions, indemnities, warranties, and dispute-resolution clauses adequately protect the estate.
• Maintain an up-to-date register of legal agreements and monitor key contractual dates, renewals, and expiry periods.
• Advise management on contractual breaches and recommend appropriate remedies.

Dispute Resolution & Litigation Management:

• Manage and provide legal support on disputes involving residents, landlords, tenants, contractors, vendors, employees, visitors, and other stakeholders.
• Investigate legal complaints and disputes and recommend appropriate resolution strategies.
• Promote alternative dispute resolution, negotiation, and settlement where appropriate.
• Coordinate with external legal counsel on litigation, arbitration, mediation, and other formal proceedings.
• Maintain a litigation and dispute tracker showing case status, exposure, actions required, and deadlines.
• Ensure management is promptly informed of material legal risks and potential liabilities.

Estate Rules, Policies & Governance:

• Review and update estate rules, regulations, handbooks, policies, and guidelines to ensure legal enforceability and relevance.
• Advise on the interpretation and implementation of estate rules.
• Support the Estate Management team in handling violations of estate policies and regulations.
• Ensure notices and enforcement actions are properly documented and issued in accordance with approved procedures.

Property & Regulatory Matters:

• Provide legal support on property-related matters affecting the estate.
• Review documentation relating to property ownership, leases, licences, permits, easements, and other property interests where applicable.
• Support the estate in ensuring compliance with relevant regulatory and statutory requirements.
• Liaise with relevant government agencies, regulators, and professional advisers when required.

Legal Documentation & Records Management:

• Maintain accurate and confidential records of contracts, leases, legal notices, disputes, correspondence, statutory documents, and other legal records.
• Establish and maintain a legal obligations and compliance tracker.
• Ensure critical legal documents are properly executed, stored, and easily retrievable.
• Monitor expiry and renewal dates for leases, licences, permits, contracts, and other legal instruments.

Legal Risk Management:

• Conduct periodic legal risk assessments of estate operations.
• Identify areas of potential exposure, including contractual, regulatory, resident, employment, property, and operational risks.
• Recommend practical measures to minimize legal and financial exposure.
• Support incident investigations where legal implications may arise.

Stakeholder Management:

• Maintain professional relationships with residents, landlords, contractors, vendors, government agencies, external solicitors, and other stakeholders.
• Handle sensitive and confidential matters with professionalism and discretion.
• Provide clear and practical legal advice that supports effective estate operations.

Qualifications

• Interested candidates should possess a Bachelor`s Degree in Law with 2 - 4 years experience.

Required Skills and Competencies:

• Strong knowledge of Nigerian property and commercial law.
• Excellent contract drafting and review skills.
• Strong negotiation and dispute-resolution skills.
• Good understanding of tenancy and property-related matters.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Ability to interpret legislation and translate legal requirements into practical operational advice.
• Strong attention to detail and documentation skills.
• Good stakeholder and relationship management skills.
• High level of integrity, confidentiality, and professional judgment.
• Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively with estate management and other teams.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office and legal/document management tools.

Role Outcome:

• The Legal Officer is expected to ensure that the residential estate operates within a legally compliant, well-governed and risk-managed framework, while protecting the estate’s interests, managing contractual and resident-related matters, and reducing exposure to legal disputes and liabilities.

Salary

N200,000 - N350,000 monthly.

Application Closing Date

19th October, 2026.