Information Officer - Law
An exciting opportunity for an Information Officer has become available within global law firm that has a UK office in Central London. The successful candidate will be primarily responsible for providing legal research and information services in a centralised function for both UK and overseas fee earners, and would be joining a sizable team of intellectually curious peers. The role also offers the opportunity to align and act as a liaison between information services and Employment, Pension and Private Wealth practice groups. This would represent a great opportunity for an information professional looking for their second role and an opportunity for professional growth in close-knit and extremely supportive team.
The primary responsibilities and objectives of the role include, but are not limited to:
- Providing a legal research service for both UK and overseas based fee earners
- Offering support and training on digital knowledge and information based resources to promote a self-service culture
- Identify potential training needs and deliver bite-sized learning interventions for both established members of staff and new joiners
- Building awareness and engagement within the firm for the Knowledge and Information function
- Cataloguing and collections
- Creating materials for the intranet and maintaining the content of a SharePoint based intranet platform
To be suitable for this Information Officer role, candidates require the following skills and experience
- Experience in a similar Information Officer, Assistant Librarian or Legal Librarian role
- Ideally, a Library Science (LIS) or related qualification, but this is not a pre-requisite
- Knowledge of legal information resources such as Lexis Library, Practical Law, Westlaw and related
- Very strong interpersonal, communication and stakeholder engagement skills
- The ability to show initiative, to identify and solve problems and to manage small individual projects
- Ideally, some experience in providing training