Legal Content Specialist – Government
RELX
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Sydney • 🇦🇺 Australia
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Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Manage the content lifecycle for assigned regulatory modules—strategy, development, commissioning, restructuring, and decommissioning.
- Stay ahead of legislative reform, case law, compliance trends, and sector developments.
- Gather insights directly from customers (pre and post-sales) to shape content that is practical, relevant, and tailored for different industries.
- Cultivate and manage relationships with external contributors such as specialist lawyers, consultants, regulators, and professional bodies.
- Partner with internal teams to define product value propositions, support go-to-market plans, deliver training, and contribute to client presentations.
- Support budgeting and revenue growth initiatives through new content proposals and adjacent market expansion.
- Drive authoring projects from initiation to delivery, ensuring quality and compliance standards are consistently met.
Requirements
- University law degree with ideally 3+ years post-qualification experience (PQE)
- Prior background in government, public policy, compliance or legal preferred
- Demonstrated legal drafting and editing skills
- Strong understanding of how compliance content is used across government agencies, regulators, legal and non-legal industries
- Prior experience in content/product development, publishing, or legal technology is desirable
- Strategic thinking with strong commercial acumen
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and project delivery skills
- Comfort working cross-functionally with marketing, finance, and sales teams
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
Benefits
- Optical Assistance
- Life assurance and income protection
- Option to buy additional Annual Leave days
- Employee Assistance Program
- Referral Bonus
- Flexible working arrangements
- Access to learning and development resources
- Retail discounts and cashback offers
- Global discounts and free wellbeing & learning classes
- Electric Vehicle Novated Leasing
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
legal draftingeditingcontent developmentpublishingcompliance standardsproject deliveryregulatory knowledgestrategic thinkingcommercial acumen
Soft skills
communicationstakeholder managementrelationship managementcross-functional collaboration
Certifications
university law degree