Legal Expert

2.  Position: Legal Expert

Number of position: 1 (One) Chennai

Educational and other qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Law with minimum five (5) years of relevant experience in handling legal cases for corporates, Central or State Government Ministries.
• Ability to undertake rigorous research on contracts and relevant legislative matters, with pronounced evidence of strong drafting and transactional skills;
• Strong command of both English and Hindi as working languages (verbal and written)
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills 

Scope of Work

• Responsible for providing high quality advice on legal issues and problems in the programme and for preparing and drafting legal opinions, memoranda and other briefing documents incompliance with the requirements of the legislation
• Supervises, analyse and research the implication of laws, legislation, etc., that may affect the programme
• Responsible for drawing up formalities regarding the settlement of disputes and monitor the implementation of the legal clauses, if required

Period of Contract

The appointment to the post will be purely on contract basis initially for a period of one year, further extendable subject to satisfactory performance and requirement of services for another year. The performance of the consultant will be reviewed every year and the contract shall be extended or discontinued (as the case may be) depending on the performance. The decision of NIMI shall be final in this regard.

Remuneration

Rs. 6,000/- per day (minimum of 5 days in a month) from which standard TDS will be deducted at source. Not entitled to any other allowance or benefits.

Selection Process

Selection will be done on the basis of performance in the personal interview by a selection committee. Only shortlisted candidates will be called for the interview. No TA/DA will be paid for attending the interview. At the time of the interview, the candidates shall produce their original certificates for verification.

Attendance and leave policy

The working hours will be the same as for NIMI. No extra remuneration shall be paid for working beyond office hours or on Saturdays/Sundays/gazetted holidays.

Confidentiality and secrecy

The consultant maintain confidentiality and will not divulge any information gathered during the period of engagement with the NIMI to any person who is not authorised to know the same.