Deputy Head of Legal Department English Proficiency
1. WHAT YOU WILL PARTICIPATE IN
Telecommunications licensing and compliance:
- Monitor and ensure compliance with the General Telecommunications Law (Law 153-98) and INDOTEL regulations on licences, spectrum, interconnection, quality of service, and consumer protection.
- Prepare applications for the grant, renewal, and amendment of licences, and manage periodic reporting obligations to INDOTEL.
- Track fees, contributions, and rollout commitments attached to spectrum licences.
- Work with the Sales Department to review terms of service and promotions against consumer-protection rules.
Contracts:
- Draft, review, and negotiate contracts ? interconnection, roaming, infrastructure and site leases, suppliers, and distribution agents.
- Build a set of bilingual Spanish-English standard contract templates.
- Manage the contract repository, tracking terms, renewals, and obligations, and run the legal review of contracts, payments, and outgoing documents before signature.
Corporate legal affairs and disputes:
- Maintain the Charter, corporate resolutions, Chamber of Commerce filings, and business licences.
- Handle claims and disputes to protect the company's rights, and coordinate external law firms and control their costs.
- Provide legal support to Human Resources (labour disputes) and Infrastructure (site leases, construction permits).
- Monitor changes in the law, including personal data protection, assess their impact, and propose options to the Board of Directors.
Governance, risk, and team leadership:
- Develop internal regulations and procedures, and work with Risk Management to add control checkpoints for products and processes that carry legal or operational risk.
- Assign, coach, and evaluate the specialists in the department, and deputise for the Head of Legal when authorised.
- Report weekly and monthly on legal risk to the Head of Legal and the General Director.
2. REQUIREMENT
- A bachelor's degree in Law, and a licence to practise law in the Dominican Republic.
- A minimum of 7 years' experience, including at least 3 years in a management role in corporate legal affairs.
- Solid command of the General Telecommunications Law (Law 153-98), corporate and contract law, and the Labour Code (Law 16-92).
- Fully fluent Spanish, and strong professional English.
- Strong contract drafting and negotiation in Spanish and English, and the ability to analyse risk and present concise options to management.
- Able to manage many matters in parallel under deadline pressure; high integrity and strict confidentiality.
- Willingness to travel to the provinces.
3. NICE TO HAVE
- Experience in telecommunications regulation, or in another regulated sector such as energy, banking, or utilities.
- A postgraduate degree in business, commercial, or international trade law.
- Experience in risk management, compliance, or internal control at a multinational company.