Legal Editor Role Overview
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Legal Editor to join our team. In this role, you will be responsible for editing manuscripts to ensure accuracy, currency, relevance, and consistency with our house style.
Key Responsibilities:
* Edit manuscripts to ensure high-quality output.
* Coordinate with external editorial support teams to ensure smooth processing of updated content.
* Utilize project management skills to meet publishing schedules and implement agreed plans for enhancements within commercial parameters.
* Develop awareness of practice area developments, legislative reforms, case law, and trends impacting your portfolio, and collaborate with authors to translate these developments into enhancements for customers.
* Build knowledge of key customer segments, including personas, behaviors, usage, and expectations, to develop and maintain content in line with customer needs.
Required Skills and Qualifications:
* A law degree or demonstrated legal practice area knowledge is highly preferred.
* Proficiency in computer skills, particularly Microsoft Word, MS Excel, and MS PowerPoint.
* Prior editing or publishing experience would be advantageous.
* Superior reading and legal comprehension skills.
* Sound legal, language, and grammatical ability.
* Proven problem-solving skills and the ability to build and maintain effective stakeholder relationships.
* Ability to work within a deadline-driven environment with high attention to detail.
Benefits:
We offer a range of benefits to support your well-being and career development, including optical assistance, life assurance, income protection, additional annual leave days, employee assistance program, referral bonus, flexible working arrangements, and access to learning and development resources.
Other Information:
* This is a permanent full-time role open to applicants from South Australia, with primarily home-based arrangements available for the right candidate.
* The position involves becoming a subject matter expert on publications within the assigned portfolio by developing close working relationships with authors, customers, and internal stakeholders, including sales and marketing teams.
* The role offers an exciting and engaging long-term career path as an alternative to legal practice while remaining engaged with the legal industry.
* We promote a healthy work/life balance with numerous wellbeing initiatives, paid parental leave, volunteering leave, and benefits for employees and their families.
* Employees have the opportunity to work with one of the major providers in legal research and technology solutions, sharing in the global mission to advance the rule of law around the world.
* Additional benefits include retail discounts, cashback offers, global discounts, free wellbeing and learning classes, and electric vehicle novated leasing.