Technical Editor

4 weeks ago

Johannesburg, South Africa LexisNexis Legal & Professional Full time

**About our Team**
LexisNexis Legal & Professional, which serves customers in more than 150 countries with 11,300 employees worldwide, is part of RELX, a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers.

**About the Role**
As an Editor you will write headnotes for UK Law Report titles. You will be ensuring their accuracy, quality and timeliness, whilst collaborating
and coordinating with other team members to meet publishing schedules.

**Responsibilities**
- Writing accurate headnotes for publication across the UK Law Reports portfolio, to requisite quality, house style, within agreed timelines
- Flagging concerns around anonymization, reporting restrictions and any other matter that may impact the reportability of a judgment
- Working collaboratively with the UK Editorial team to meet scheduling needs. Continue to meet editorial, stylistic and functional standards required by customers. Edit and style material in the relevant format, using templates where relevant.
- Attending training sessions as required, taking onboard feedback for improvement and performing other duties as reasonably requested
- Flagging risks to publishing schedules and respond effectively in a timely, professional manner, to queries from the UK Editorial team
- Assisting in project work as appropriate to support new business initiatives, mentoring and supervision of less experienced staff where required

**Requirements**:

- Solid experience in editorial/legal publishing or case summarization and showing interest in the law
- Excellent verbal, editing skills and written English, the ability to understand, navigate and present complex legal materials
- Good interpersonal skills, positive attitude and professionalism
- Have good time management skills to meet rigid and frequent deadlines
- Have workable knowledge of MS Office (Outlook, Word, Excel), SharePoint and an interest in learning new systems/technologies
- Able to adapt to working practices in response to changing business demands
- Able to work independently and determine appropriate methodology to work toward a defined goal, asking for direction/assistance as necessary

**Work in a way that works for you**
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.
- 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.

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