Digital Content Generalist I

RELX INC; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 107,000 - 131,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Aid

Retirement Plan

Family benefits

Study Leave

Job summary

LexisNexis Legal & Professional, a RELX company, seeks an editorial role to provide legal practical guidance and market insight. You will review documents, conduct legal research, draft content and maintain trackers in a permanent capacity.

The role requires a Law degree or equivalent experience, strong research and writing skills, and the ability to meet deadlines. Flexible but standard business hours apply with focus on quality content development.

Qualifications

• Degree in Law or equivalent experience.
• Demonstrate excellent research and writing skills.
• Eye for detail and quality-oriented focus.

Responsibilities

• Review new and existing content for quality and legal accuracy; suggest process improvements.
• Maintain trackers and input developments for consultations, cases and dates.
• Draft practical guidance content (FAQs, practice notes, precedents, trackers, checklists).
• Conduct legal research and liaise with subject matter experts within Practical Guidance teams.
• Support initiatives to grow and improve the Lexis+ offering.

Skills

Legal writing

Legal research

Content review

Stakeholder communication

Education

Law degree

Tools

LexisNexis

Job description

Johannesburg

Cape Town

Durban_SA

Full time

R119053

Do you enjoy creating engaging legal content for publication?

Are you looking for an exciting editorial role?

Join us in shaping a more just world.

About the Team

LexisNexis Legal & Professional, which serves customers in more than 150 countries with 11,800 employees worldwide, is part of RELX, 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.

About the Role

In this role, you will be helping to provide legal practical guidance and market insight. You will be reviewing documents, undertaking legal research, drafting content and maintaining trackers. This is a permanent role.

Responsibilities

• Reviewing new and existing content for quality and legal accuracy, and making recommendations for process improvements
• Monitoring of developments and inputting information to maintain trackers of consultations, cases and dates
• Drafting practical guidance content (eg FAQs, practice notes, precedents, trackers, checklists, etc)
• Conducting legal research and liaising with subject matter experts within the Practical Guidance practice area teams
• Supporting the development and implementation of initiatives to grow and improve the Lexis+ offering

Requirements

• Have a degree in Law, or equivalent experience
• Comfortable working shift hours Monday-Friday, 10 AM-6 PM (June-Oct) and 11 AM-7 PM (Nov-March), SAST.
• Demonstrate an eye for detail and a quality-oriented focus
• Be able to demonstrate excellent research and writing skills
• Have a good understanding of legal issues, procedures and content types
• Be able to think creatively, handle multiple tasks simultaneously and work to strict deadlines
• Be able to communicate influentially and effectively to a range of audiences, including senior stakeholders
• Be a natural, innovative problem solver, able to collaborate with your team to resolve issues
• Have an understanding of, and willingness to use, social media and new technology

Work in a way that works for you

We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organization. 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.

• Working flexible hours - flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive

Working for you

We know that your well-being and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer: Medical Aid- Retirement Plan inclusive of Risk Benefits (Disability, Critical Illness, Life Cover & Funeral Cover)- Modern family benefits, including adoption and surrogacy- Study Leave

About the Business

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 know your well-being and happiness are key to a long and successful career. We are delighted to offer country specific benefits. to access benefits specific to your location.

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RELX is a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers, enabling them to make better decisions, get better results and be more productive.

Our purpose is to benefit society by developing products that help researchers advance scientific knowledge; doctors and nurses improve the lives of patients; lawyers promote the rule of law and achieve justice and fair results for their clients; businesses and governments prevent fraud; consumers access financial services and get fair prices on insurance; and customers learn about markets and complete transactions.

Our purpose guides our actions beyond the products that we develop. It defines us as a company. Every day across RELX our employees are inspired to undertake initiatives that make unique contributions to society and the communities in which we operate.