Just in! An international law firm requires a Senior Information Officer to join their Information and Knowledge Management team which are all currently located in their London office.
Main responsibilities include:
- Undertaking research in response to users’ enquiries and assisting users in carrying out research
- Managing the Enquiry Desk on a rota basis with an Information Officer
- Providing a daily current awareness service using Lexis Newsdesk
- Liaising with Corporate Commercial, Banking and Finance, Projects and Construction PSLs and fee earners, attending department meetings and assisting with their precedents and know how collections
- Maintaining the Sydney Enterprise library management software, assisting the library team in its use and generating reports as required
- Managing journal subscriptions, including liaising with legal staff and library suppliers. Arranging training with suppliers on certain titles with online platforms
- Liaising with legal staff and library suppliers on the selection of acquisitions, including both brand new titles and new editions
- Maintaining the currency of the hard copy collection, including weeding stock where necessary
- Supervising the cataloguing and processing of library materials by the Information Officers and Information Assistant
- Assisting with new staff inductions for liaison departments, including trainee induction programmes
- Providing regular, scheduled firm-wide training sessions on finding company information and online books as well as running ad-hoc sessions
- Assisting with information and KM projects, as required
To be considered for this role you will need the following skills and experience:
- Strong organisational and time management skills
- Excellent communication skills
- Flexible approach to working as part of a team
- An enthusiastic, can-do attitude
- Ability to work to deadlines
- A fast learner with the ability to hit the ground running
- Proactive approach, able to work effectively with colleagues across the business at all levels
- Excellent attention to detail
- 5 years' experience working in a legal or commercial environment
- Practical experience of undertaking research, using LexisNexis and Thomson Reuters services
- Degree level, having achieved or working towards an information qualification