Legal Content Specialist - Government

About The Role

At LexisNexis, we are transforming how professionals access and use regulatory and compliance content. We are seeking a talented and strategic Legal Content Specialist to join our dynamic Pacific team. In this role, you’ll be the subject matter expert for a portfolio of Australian regulatory compliance content, shaping how it’s developed, positioned, and delivered to a diverse customer base across health, aged care, and other community sectors.

You'll take charge of developing, curating, and refining content within our Regulatory Compliance Government portfolio, ensuring it’s current, practical, and tailored to meet the evolving needs of customers. You’ll work closely with authors, compliance officers, consultants, and internal stakeholders across sales, marketing, and editorial.

This is an exceptional opportunity for a legally trained professional with a passion for content, regulation, and innovation to drive thought leadership, influence industry best practice, and help businesses stay compliant with confidence. If you have prior background working within Government, Public policy, Legal or Compliance, we would love to hear from you!

Reporting to the Content Manager, this is a permanent full-time role based in either Sydney, Melbourne or Brisbane with combined home/office-based arrangements to have flexible work-life balance.

Responsibilities

• Portfolio Ownership: Manage the content lifecycle for assigned regulatory modules—strategy, development, commissioning, restructuring, and decommissioning.
• Thought Leadership: Stay ahead of legislative reform, case law, compliance trends, and sector developments.
• Customer-Centric Development: Gather insights directly from customers (pre and post-sales) to shape content that is practical, relevant, and tailored for different industries.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Cultivate and manage relationships with external contributors such as specialist lawyers, consultants, regulators, and professional bodies.
• Sales & Marketing Enablement: Partner with internal teams to define product value propositions, support go-to-market plans, deliver training, and contribute to client presentations.
• Revenue & Strategy: Support budgeting and revenue growth initiatives through new content proposals and adjacent market expansion.
• Project Delivery: 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.
• Work in a way that works for you

We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organisation. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous Wellbeing initiatives, Paid Parental leaves, Volunteering leaves, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.

Working For You

We know that your wellbeing and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:

• Optical Assistance

• Life assurance and income protection
• Option to buy additional Annual Leave days

• Employee Assistance Program

• Referral Bonus

• Flexible Working Arrangements

• Benefits for you and your family
• Access to learning and development resources
• Retail discounts and cashback offers
• Global discounts and free wellbeing & learning classes
• Electric Vehicle Novated Leasing

About The Business:

LexisNexis Legal & Professional® provides legal, regulatory, and business information and analytics that help customers increase their productivity, improve decision-making, achieve better outcomes, and advance the rule of law around the world. As a digital pioneer, the company was the first to bring legal and business information online with its Lexis® and Nexis® services.

If you're passionate about regulatory content and thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment, we want to hear from you!

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