UK Legislation Content Specialist

RELX Group; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A global information provider is seeking a UK Legislation Content Specialist to support editorial projects. This role requires expertise in UK legislation along with strong legal research and editorial skills. The successful candidate will develop content strategies, oversee editorial workflows, and ensure high-quality legislative data while collaborating with Technology and Product teams. This full-time hybrid role offers a flexible working environment.

Benefits

Generous holiday allowance

Health screening and private medical benefits

Wellbeing programs

Life Assurance

Competitive contributory pension scheme

Employee discounts scheme

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in legal, legislative, or editorial work.
• Familiar with agile practices and methodologies.
• Strong communication skills and experience with multidisciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Serve as primary expert for UK and Ireland legislation.
• Advise project teams on authoritative sources and update practices.
• Develop content strategies for UK jurisdictions based on needs.

Skills

Legal research

Editorial work

Content management

Project management

Agile methodologies

Stakeholder engagement

Education

Degree in law or equivalent

Tools

AI tools

Job description

The UK Legislation Content Specialist is a regional subject matter expert supporting multiple legislative content projects within Global Editorial Operations. This role ensures that legislative data is accurate, comprehensive, and aligned with user needs and global product strategy. You will oversee end-to-end editorial workflows, partner closely with Technology and Product teams, contribute to CMS and tooling requirements, and support the integration of AI and automation across legislative processes. You will also play a key role in shaping content strategy for UK jurisdictions and driving continuous improvement in coverage and quality.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary expert for legislation in the UK and Ireland and stay informed on global legislative practices.
• Advise project teams on authoritative sources, acquisition approaches, update frequency, completeness, and jurisdictional requirements.
• Define content acquisition needs and ensure reliable, high-quality source coverage and produce accurate estimates for acquisition, conversion, enhancement, QA, and publication tasks.
• Provide guidance on conversion rules, data models, versioning, and publication workflows to meet product and user requirements.
• Develop content strategies for each UK jurisdiction based on customer needs and business priorities.
• Identify opportunities to expand or enhance legislative coverage.
• Translate editorial and legislative needs into clear backlogs, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Lead the definition of editorial requirements for CMSs, tools, data structures, metadata, and versioning rules.
• Identify risks, constraints, and dependencies, communicating clearly to project teams and stakeholders.
• Partner with Technology, Product, and GTO teams to optimise tools and workflows, ensuring scalability and automation readiness, test new tools and enhancements, providing structured feedback.
• Support multiple concurrent projects while ensuring accuracy, consistency, and adherence to global editorial standards.
• Participate in agile ceremonies and collaborate with PMs, BAs, engineers, QA, and other contributors and coordinate dependencies and align workflows from acquisition through publication.
• Work closely with teams across Editorial, Product, Technology, Commercial, and regional leadership to remove blockers and support delivery.

Qualifications

• Degree in law or equivalent knowledge gained through work experience.
• 5+ years' experience in legal research, editorial work, content management, or legislative/regulatory analysis.
• Familiarity with agile ways of working; experience leading or contributing to agile ceremonies is a plus.
• Practical experience using AI tools or working with AI-supported workflows.
• Strong understanding of UK legislative frameworks; knowledge of additional jurisdictions is helpful but not required.
• Ability to analyse complex legislative material and communicate it clearly.
• Strong collaboration skills and experience working with multidisciplinary teams.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills and highly organised, detail-focused, and comfortable managing shifting priorities.
• Project management experience (Agile/Scrum) is an advantage.
• Full-time hybrid role with occasional collaboration across time zones and some travel may be required for key meetings or training.

Benefits

• Generous holiday allowance with the option to buy additional days.
• Health screening, eye care vouchers and private medical benefits.
• Wellbeing programs.
• Life Assurance.
• Access to a competitive contributory pension scheme.
• Save As You Earn share option scheme.
• Travel Season ticket loan.
• Electric Vehicle Scheme.
• Optional Dental Insurance.
• Maternity, paternity and shared parental leave.
• Employee Assistance Programme.
• Access to emergency care for both the elderly and children.
• RECARES days, giving you time to support the charities and causes that matter to you.
• Access to employee resource groups with dedicated time to volunteer.
• Access to extensive learning and development resources.
• Access to employee discounts scheme via Perks at Work.

LexisNexis Legal & Professional, which serves customers in more than 150 countries with 11,800 employees worldwide, is part of RELX (www.relx.com), a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers. Our company has been a long-time leader in deploying AI and advanced technologies to the legal market to improve productivity and transform the overall business and practice of law, deploying ethical and powerful generative AI solutions with a flexible, multi-model approach that prioritizes using the best model from today's top model creators for each individual legal use case. The company employs over 2,000 technologists, data scientists, and experts to develop, test, and validate solutions in line with RELX Responsible AI Principles, LexisNexis Legal & Professional® provides legal, regulatory, and business information and analytics that help customers increase their productivity, improve decision‑making, achieve better outcomes, and advance the rule of law around the world. As a digital pioneer, the company was the first to bring legal and business information online with its Lexis® and Nexis® services.

We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organisation. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long‑term goals.