An excellent opportunity has arisen to work as part of our growing document production team to provide a professional high quality and efficient full range of document production services to the firm.
Responsibilities include:
- Prioritising and processing all work requests, to include audio typing/transcription of correspondence and other documents.
- Producing and amending business critical documents with speed and accuracy, to include pleadings, reports, cost spreadsheets, organisational charts, and PowerPoint presentations
- Creating, editing, and reformatting all correspondence and documents in line with the firm’s precedents, templates and house style
- Advanced document revision including document comparison, formatting, styling, cross referencing, and table of contents
- Proof reading and checking all work for spelling, grammar, formatting, presentation and flow, including that generated by our speech recognition systems
- Provide expert assistance to the firm in relation to resolving problem of corrupt documents when required
- Taking responsibility for ensuring each piece of work is correctly saved, accessible and returned to the sender with the appropriate communication
- Proactively clarifying instructions with legal departments and requestors should they be unclear or if deadlines are not made explicit
Skills and experience you will have:
- Experience of working in a similar role ideally within professional services although we are open to other sectors
- Efficient and accurate audio and copy typing skills
- Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Visio) as well as knowledge of PDF editing software and tools and techniques
- Experience of using document and case management systems
- Effective communicator, able to build and maintain professional relationships with colleagues
Key competencies you will need:
- High degree of drive, self-motivation, and energy. A “can do” attitude, able to make things happen
- Always committed to delivering excellent levels of service to clients
- Able to work well under pressure to meet deadlines, whist remaining calm and professional
- A completer/finisher with a strong focus on getting things done
Let us introduce ourselves....
It’s the people at Shakespeare Martineau that make us so special. By understanding what our people want, giving them the support they need, recognising everyone’s contribution and realising the unique power of teams, together we win. As a firm we are focused on proactively building and developing diverse teams, bringing different backgrounds, personalities and perspectives together. We play to our strengths, pushing ourselves to be consistently better than yesterday and deliver amazing solutions for our clients. We empower our teams with a high degree of individual responsibility; we self-manage and encourage everyone to be responsible for their own learning, knowing it makes us even better at what we do!
We believe in trusting our people to make the right decisions for themselves, from when and where you work, to how you dress; we focus on outputs.
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We embrace agile working and offer a blended approach to where and how we work.
We appreciate that people have different needs and preferences and we’re keen to be flexible, after all, we value what you do, not where you do it.
We have hubs in Birmingham, Leicester, London, Milton Keynes, Nottingham, Solihull, Stratford-upon-Avon and Sheffield. This role will be predominantly home based with travel as required into or one of our office hubs for occasional team meetings.
The working hours will be 37 hours per week, working between the hours of 7.00am and 7.00pm Monday to Friday on a rotational basis. |
Please be aware, for some vacancies, where we receive high numbers of applications we may need to bring the close date forward.
Due to the nature of the work undertaken, confirmation of employment will be subject to a variety of checks which will be carried out once an offer of employment is accepted. Details of the checks can be found here.
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Shakespeare Martineau is a committed equal opportunities employer. We seek to attract, develop and retain talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures. We value and respect individuality and encourage a culture within our business where people can be themselves and be valued for their strengths and experiences. Everyone who either applies to or works for the firm is treated equally, regardless of their gender, age, ethnic origin, nationality, marital status, sexual orientation or religious beliefs. |
