Legal Editor - JHB / Durban at Relx

Responsibilities

• Managing a portfolio of secondary titles, including textbooks, loose-leafs, newsletters, and/or law reports.
• Creating and maintain author relationships for existing publications, ensuring timely receipt of manuscript in proper format.
• Coordinating reviews on manuscripts to ensure they adhere to our author guidelines and provide feedback to authors.
• Sourcing appropriate articles for newsletters, and arranging permission to republish them.
• Identifying authors or freelance legal writers for new and existing publications; and developing new publications.
• Drafting and negotiate publishing contracts.
• Acting as the first point of contact for authors and colleagues for publications within your portfolio.
• Completing various administrative tasks, including data entry, processing invoices, scheduling customer interviews, etc.

Requirements

• Experience in legal editing or holds an LLB.
• Have legal practice or legal publishing experience.
• Display organizational skills and keen attention to detail.
• Able to manage multiple projects simultaneously, and to meet rigid and frequent deadlines.
• Possess interpersonal skills and ability to work collaboratively as part of cross-departmental and cross-jurisdictional project teams.
• Maintain communication (oral and written) and negotiation skills.
• Able to work flexible hours to collaborate with authors and colleagues across multiple time zones.
• Core hours are 12pm – 6pm SAST, but flexibility to attend meetings beyond 6pm SAST on a regular basis is required.
• Possess Technical proficiency with Acrobat and Microsoft Office, and comfort learning new software and tools.