Senior Editor

4 months ago

Durban, South Africa LexisNexis Legal & Professional Full time

**Senior Editor - Stair**

**Are you looking for an exciting editorial role?**
**Would you enjoy working with Scottish law?**

**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 a Senior Editor, you will be part of the UK team delivering the Stair Memorial Encyclopaedia of the Law of Scotland, the only comprehensive and authoritative narrative treatment of the law of Scotland and the cornerstone of the Scots lawyer’s library.

**Responsibilities**
- Planning, organizing and editing material for publication as discrete titles. Liaising with senior team members and others with regards to content and any other issues
- Reviewing manuscript and copyediting and styling it prior to publication, ensuring all content is of required quality
- Ensuring all editing follows house style and all material included is accurate by conducting legal research/monitoring legal developments
- Producing and checking annual consolidated indexes and tables of cases/statutory material
- Supporting preparation of bi-annual/annual cumulative supplements
- Liaising with and monitoring progress of external authors
- Flagging risks to publishing schedule, mitigating risks where possible
- Collaborating closely with offshore production team/vendors/freelancers and dealing with day-to-day operational problems

**Requirements**:

- Experience in legal publishing and/or legal practice
- Experience demonstrating a clear understanding of the way Scottish law develops (both the legislative process and common law) and of conducting independent legal research
- Have editorial skills and excellent written English as well as the ability to understand, navigate and present complex legal material articulately and accurately
- Show interpersonal skills, a positive attitude, and professional manner for routine contact with geographically diverse authors, colleagues, customers and vendors
- Have excellent time management skills to meet rigid and frequent deadlines
- Be technically proficient in MS Office (Outlook, Word, Excel), have familiarity with content management systems and an interest in learning new systems/technologies

**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.

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