Sr / Specialist Legal

Job Description

: Sr / Specialist Legal

Job Id: OQ55981
Start Date: Sep 24, 2025
End Date: Oct 09, 2025
Company Name: OQ
Discipline: Legal
No of Position: 1
Position Type: Permanent

Job Type Nationality Required Education & Experience Required Education

Minimum qualification: Bachelor of Laws (LLB)

Experience

• Specialist: 5 years of relevant experience.
• Sr. Specialist: 8 years of relevant experience.
• Working experience in a large and vertically integrated Energy company, both transactional and operational experience essential.
• Ideal candidate has both international and domestic Omani experience in commercial contracts, general corporate experience, and experience providing concise and clear legal support and opinions to internal clients, including executive management and partners.

Job Title: Sr / Specialist Legal
Grade:
Stream: OQ Alternative Energy
Function: Legal
Location: Oman Muscat

Budget control:
OPEX and/or CAPEX and/or Revenue amount as relevant

Reporting to: VP Legal
Direct Reportees: 0

Job Purpose

Perform and execute end-to-end legal tasks within the Alternative Energy sector, under VP Legal Alternative Energy instruction and guidance, in a progression that encompasses more responsibilities according to the level of the incumbent.

Provide timely value-added legal support and advice to OQ Alternative Energy Management and all relevant business units to ensure the efficient and effective performance of the companys operations while ensuring those operations are performed in accordance with applicable laws and the companys internal policies and procedures.

The incumbent will, at all times, act in accordance with OQAEs Mission, Vision, Values & Strategies, as well as in accordance with all relevant policies, guidelines and international standards, supported by an IT Technology platform, HSE standards, Omans governmental & other legal directives, and best international practices in consonance with national objectives.

The Specialist Legal should have substantial experience in the Alternative Energy/Energy industry. They understand the nuances of renewable energy, oil and gas operations, regulations, contractual frameworks, joint venture relations, and commercial dynamics.

Main Tasks and Responsibilities

• Execute tasks assigned by the VP Legal, including contract review and drafting, joint venture agreement review and drafting, project document review and drafting, corporate support, and government legal relationships.
• As a key member of the OQ Alternative Energy legal team, ensure all OQ Alternative Energy activities are undertaken in compliance with all laws and relevant policies and procedures. Have a sound understanding of corporate structures and company law and reporting requirements, as they relate to OQ Alternative Energy and its subsidiaries. Assist in the development, support, and training of junior and graduate staff within the OQ Alternative Energy Legal Department.
• Review, interpret, draft, and/or negotiate a variety of policies and commercial contracts, including Engineering Procurement & Construction Contracts, Power Purchase Agreements, Procurement Contracts, as well as joint venture partner agreements including Shareholder Agreements, Joint Development Agreements, and subsidiary incorporation and management process.
• Provide timely and practical legal advice to OQ Alternative Energy management concerning complex, multi-jurisdictional Alternative Energy projects, and liaise with company affiliates and joint venture partners regarding the same and will have well-developed project management skills to ensure close coordination of legal and commercial work streams.

Key Interactions

• Internal: Finance, Project Development, Energy Excellence, Strategy & Decarbonisation, PTC, and all other OQ Group companies.
• External: JV Partners, Contractors, Government, Vendors & Suppliers

Notable Working Conditions

Office environment, intensive computer screen use, sporadic visits to operation sites.

Language

Excellent knowledge of written, read, and spoken English (required)

Background and Experience Competencies and Skills

• Technical Competencies:

  • Excellent legal knowledge and technical legal report writing skills.
  • Knowledge of all major software packages.
  • Excellent Corporate reporting and compliance knowledge.
  • Project Financing & Banking.
  • Planning & business.
  • Litigation and Arbitration.
  • Projects Oil & Gas.
  • Claims & Disputes.
  • Legal frame for Oil & Gas industry.
  • Corporate Law.

• Soft Skills:

  • Peoples management skills.
  • Analytical skills.
  • Maintaining effective, accurate, and transparent communication with all stakeholders & community.
  • Attention to detail.
  • Strategic thinking.
  • Negotiation.
  • Planning skills.
  • Forward thinking.
  • Ethical and transparent.
  • Engages & inspires people to collaborate and share knowledge to achieve common goals.
  • Demonstrates commitment to business aspirations.
  • Pursues 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.

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