Overview
Information Officer - Law - London
A prominent UK law firm that is based in London has a requirement for an Information Officer to join the firm initially on a 3 month fixed term contract. This is a role that can be either full or part-time.
Responsibilities
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
Qualifications
* 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
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