Information Officer x 2 - Law - London - Part-Time
A prominent UK law firm that is based in London has a requirement for an Information Officer to join the firm on part-time basis, either 0.8 or 0.6 FTE.
In this Information Officer role, the core responsibilities will be around providing a mix of legal research, current awareness and training as a part of a small, close-knit and extremely welcoming team.
The specific responsibilities and objectives of this information officer role include a mix of the following:
- Conduct legal and business research to support marketing, BD, pitches, tenders, events, and recruitment.
- Support in providing a current awareness service (Vable) – including daily horizon scanning, tailored alerts, and usage reporting.
- Maintain and update the firm’s intranet (SharePoint) – including knowhow pages, news, resources, and media content.
- Support knowledge management by organising and indexing knowhow in collaboration with practice groups and PSLs.
- Deliver induction and user onboarding, running weekly sessions, managing access to subscriptions, and distributing welcome materials.
- Assist in managing print and digital collections, including archiving, weeding, and maintaining an A–Z guide of online resources.
- Deliver training sessions for trainee inductions and refresher updates
To be a suitable candidate for this Information Officer role, candidates will require the following:
- Previous experience in an information services or knowledge management role, ideally gained in a legal setting
- Strong legal research skills utilising resources such as LexisNexis, Westlaw and Practical Law
- Ideally, some exposure to the provision of current awareness, this firm uses Vable
- Some previous experience training new starters, lawyers and other stakeholders on information resources
- Refined relationship building, communication and interpersonal skills
- Ideally, a Library Science or related qualification