The Content Specialist will be involved in content creation, commissioning and sourcing and quality assurance for our online legal services targeting the legal community in Middle East and North Africa (MENA).

The Content Specialist will maintain the Westlaw Gulf service and Lexgulf service by updating and expanding all launched content, servicing client research requests and content queries, preparing legal reports, contributing in the delivery of governments' projects, managing the current awareness service on our platforms and contribute to the development of the content roadmap to fulfill all business requirements and ensure that Thomson Reuters content maintains a competitive advantage.

Major Responsibilities / Accountabilities

• Responsible to sourcing and updating the live service to agreed Service Level Agreement
• Loads new and updated content into the content management system accurately ensuring structure, metadata and value add content is correct
• Participates in content development initiatives to add new legal content and new vendors and improves workflow and data sourcing efficiency
• Select all laws to be translated, classified and uploaded for the service to match the product profile
• Update Official Gazette Index records
• Manage translation and QA processes for content projects working with vendors
• Manage all client requests within agreed time parameters and working closely with Account Manager
• Plan the expansion of launched content sets, such as cases, delivering according to an agreed schedule
• Prepare legal reports on different topics covering several jurisdictions.
• Establish strong relationships with external experts in the legal market.
• Help with the execution and delivery of government projects within agreed time parameters.

REQUIREMENTS

Professional Skills & Competencies

• Legal background (not less than 5 years of working experience) with solid understanding of the MENA legal systems (Essential)
• Bilingual English and Arabic (Essential)
• Good written (English & Arabic) and communication skills (Essential)
• Editorial, content management, sourcing and Publishing experience (Desirable)
• Translation of legal material experience (Desirable)
• Understanding of content structure (HTML/XML) and online publishing (Desirable)

Certifications / Education

• Degree in Law (Essential)
• Publishing or Content Management qualification (Desirable)

Professional Experience

• Working in the legal field in the Middle East region

Behavioral Competencies

Focusing on Customers

Driving Results

Championing Innovation

Collaborating across Boundaries

ABOUT THE COMPANY

At Thomson Reuters, we believe what we do matters. We are passionate about our work, inspired by the impact it has on our business and our customers. As a team, we believe in winning as one - collaborating to reach shared goals, and developing through challenging and meaningful experiences. With over 60,000 employees in more than 100 countries, we work flexibly across boundaries and realize innovations that help shape industries around the world. Making this happen is a dynamic, evolving process, and we count on each employee to be a catalyst in driving our performance - and their own.

As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under country or local law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.