Programme Legal Associate, West Africa

Acumen(1 day ago)

Lagos, NigeriaOnsiteContractMedior$38,310 - $53,827 (estimated)Legal

About this role

Acumen is seeking a mission-driven Legal Associate to join its Legal team in Lagos and support Acumen West Africa and a Canada-operated programme focused on early-stage social enterprises in the green economy. This fixed-term role requires a transactional lawyer with a minimum of 2 years' experience, fluency in English, and authorization to work in Nigeria. The position will report to the Program Legal Counsel and West Africa Legal Counsel and contribute to programme delivery and legal oversight.

View Original Listing

Required Skills

Transactional Law
Contract Drafting
Compliance
Due Diligence
Project Management
Stakeholder Management
Investment Documentation
Regulatory Filings
Legal Research
Communication

Qualifications

License to Practice Law
Authorized to Work in Nigeria

About Acumen

acumen.org

New Relic is a SaaS observability platform that helps engineering and operations teams monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize applications and infrastructure. It ingests telemetry — metrics, traces, logs, events and real-user data — from agents and integrations and exposes APM, distributed tracing, infrastructure monitoring, logs, synthetics, and alerting in a single UI. The New Relic One experience includes a query language (NRQL), customizable dashboards, real-time analytics and collaboration tools so teams can quickly pinpoint issues and measure performance. Organizations choose New Relic for broad language/cloud integrations, end-to-end visibility, and query-driven insights that accelerate incident response and performance tuning.