Editorial assistant

Closing date: 13th January 2025 at 11.59pm

Salary: £26,500

Duration: 12 months

Working hours: 9am - 5:30pm,  Monday to Friday (5pm finish on Friday)

Location: London (working from the office 3 days per week)

Start date: 3rd February 2025 

Make your mark in legal publishing by crafting compelling content, connecting with top law firms, and gaining hands-on experience in global legal intelligence.

Law Business Research is a technology-enabled information services business powering the global legal industry. They deliver must-have intelligence to clients when they need it, through a combination of time-sensitive insight, proprietary data and analytics, expert research, and sophisticated tools, across a range of specialist platforms.

In this internship, you will support editorial and admin processes within the research content and legal content teams of Law Business Research.

Key activities

Contribute to editorial content:

• Liaise with law firms to arrange and carry out interviews
• Write up interviews and prepare selected content for reports
• Create articles for publication online
• Edit and proof content ready for publication
• Contribute to other content projects as necessary (eg, podcasts, videos and reports)

Support the editorial and production processes for content, for example:

• Liaise with law firms to coordinate the survey data submission process
• Coordinate sharing of data submissions with offshore teams for reports
• Publish content on our platforms
• Assist with the coordination and delivery of events
• Assist with social media and marketing activity

Work with internal and external editorial contacts on content creation process:

• Review amended documents ahead of publication
• Manage the publication process for new resources

What we're looking for

• Excellent administrative and organisational skills
• Good written and verbal communication skills with the ability to proofread documents
• Experience of liaising with a variety of stakeholders (internal and external)
• An interest in the legal industry
• Basic Excel knowledge

To apply

• Log in to your Creative Access account or register today to apply for this opportunity
• Upload your CV and cover letter as one document (applications without a tailored cover letter will not be accepted)
• Once submitted, you can no longer amend your application, so proof-read carefully
• Do not contact the company directly
• Please email any queries about this role to Creative Access at this address: recruit@creativeaccess.org.uk
   

This opportunity is only open to individuals from a group that is under-represented in the creative industries. This includes, but is not limited to Black, Asian and ethnically diverse candidates, disabled people, those undergoing gender reassignment / transitioning and individuals from lower socioeconomic backgrounds.

The successful candidate for this opportunity will also participate in a Creative Access support programme that sits alongside workplace training. This includes a programme of induction training, monthly masterclasses, wellbeing support, buddying / mentoring and more.