Research and Information Officer – Law
An extremely prestigious and top 20 UK law firm has an opportunity for a Research and Information Officer to join their team. This is an opportunity to join a large team of peers where the responsibilities of the role are divided between individual practice areas (around 80%) and a centralised function – around 20%. The role is based out the UK headquarters in the City of London.
Key responsibilities and objectives:
- To work with and support Partners, Lawyers and PSL’s. Other stakeholders will include the wider knowledge and innovation team and other Business Services groups, such as Business Development
- Support a broad range of knowledge management work, current awareness activity, and provide research support to fee earners and other Business Services functions
- Knowledge Management – collect, summarise and publish to the firms Knowledge Management database and Intranet
- Managing research and enquiries – providing support, responding to enquiries and supply specific research as required
- Managing and evaluation of the available research resources and databases
- Undertaking current awareness activities including flagging of legal and regulatory change
- The provision of training
Suitable candidates will need the following experience and skills
- Previous experience in a Knowledge or Information role
- Preferably experience in the legal or professional services industry, but this is not a pre-requisite
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
- Ideally an LIS qualification
- Strong research skills and experience with electronic databases
- Ideally experience aligned to corporate, but this is not a pre-requisite and training will be provided. A desire, however, to learn the subject area is essential
- https://www.cbresourcing.com/job/research-and-information-officer-123.aspx
