Editorial Project Manager – Legal Tech - CCAS

Editorial Project Manager – Legal Tech - CCAS

London, England, UK

Competitive

Clifford Chance is one of the world's leading law firms, helping clients achieve their goals by combining the highest global standards with local expertise.  The firm has unrivalled scale and depth of legal resources across the three key markets of the Americas, Asia Pacific and Europe and focuses on the core areas of commercial activity: capital markets; corporate and M&A; finance and banking; real estate; tax; pensions and employment; litigation and dispute resolution.

Clifford Chance Applied Solutions (CCAS), a subsidiary of Clifford Chance, has been established to develop digital (and other technology-related) products aimed at in-house lawyers, compliance officers and their operational teams. CCAS is uniquely placed to identify and exploit opportunities that lie at the intersection of law and technology, leveraging Clifford Chance's legal expertise, Product Management and Got-to-Market expertise and best-in-class technologies. CCAS has ambitious growth targets – looking to accelerate the growth of its existing portfolio of products and to launch new products.

CCAS is one of three business areas underpinning the firm's Best Delivery and Innovation strategy, which is governed by Clifford Chance LLP's Best Delivery and Innovation Leadership Group.

CCAS is one of three business areas underpinning Clifford Chance's Best Delivery and Innovation strategy. 

The Editorial Project Manager will be responsible for delivering the legal content for CCAS' portfolio of products, in particular for the multi-jurisdictional survey product line. 

 Key Responsibilities

• Identifying legal content required for the CCAS products, balancing customer needs and wishes with CCAS’s need to return a profit;
• Creating and executing strategies and plans for content acquisition, publication, maintenance and curation;
• Editing the content for online publication and SEO, including application of metadata;
• Managing relationships with contributors and the costs of acquisition and editing;
• Monitoring and reporting on progress against relevant plan:
• Developing and maintaining Editorial best practice. Including developing a CCAS style guide and ensuring it is followed;
• Advocating for CCAS and the Editorial Project Manager role, in particular with key stakeholders;
• Optimising all content management processes. This will include:
• People aspects: working with others, to ensure that projects are always adequately and appropriately resourced, taking in to account business as usual activities;
• Process aspects: identifying improvements to processes and implementing those improvements; and 
• Technology aspects: working with the technology team to identify and implement relevant tools and systems.

Experience:

• Significant experience of acquiring and editing complex legal content from several different jurisdictions for online publication across different products.
• Experience of working with a digital content management system.
• Experience of creating and rolling out Editorial best practice and style guides.
• Experience of working on digital product development projects.

Skills:

• Editing and sub-editing.
• Excellent written and oral communication.
• Ability to absorb, understand and explain complex issues clearly and concisely both in writing and orally.
• Attention to detail
• Using digital publishing tools

Driving outcomes:

• Strong ability to focus on outcomes and holding others to account for their areas of responsibility.
• Managing costs and delivering on time while maintaining quality output.

Relationship building:

• Ability to build strong relationships with contributors and other stakeholders.
• Ability to show sensitivity to cultural factors and individual differences.
• Ability and gravitas to influence people of all levels of seniority

Commerciality:

• Ability to understand the commercial rationale for a product, identify the content resource needed and take the necessary steps to deliver that content on time and to budget.
• Willing to challenge and question assumptions; propose alternative and sometimes novel solutions.
• Justifies recommendations and can handle objections and counter-proposals rationally.
• Rises above the detail to see broader implications, in terms of both long-term consequences of action and broader business impact.
• Ensures collective experiences of best practice are captured and utilised to good effect.

Personal attributes

• Self-starting attitude, organised,
• Consultative and decisive.
• Adaptable and flexible.
• Interest in business law

Qualifications

• Degree or equivalent;
• Prince2, MSP, Agile Project Management or other recognised project management qualifications prefereable; 

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