Senior Legal Editor (Health & Welfare Benefits, ERISA)

Job Summary
The Senior Legal Editor is responsible for ensuring that high-quality content is produced in a variety of formats, across multiple products for an HR audience. This position requires a JD and a strong familiarity with HR concepts and employment law, preferably with experience related to employment benefits, including COBRA, healthcare insurance, and retirement, as well as HIPAA as it relates to employer obligations. The Senior Legal Editor serves as a resource to the content team, and creates, edits, and manages the content for multiple online and print products, webinars, and online learning. The role requires delving into multiple topic areas to break down complex ideas into simple terms. The Senior Legal Editor must understand how to bring value to the customer through instructional/guidance-oriented content. Qualified candidates should be comfortable researching and writing about complex HR issues, interacting with customers, and collaborating and coordinating with team members across multiple locations.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

Write and edit clear, informative, and engaging content to be used in a variety of customer solutions, primarily in answering employment law questions from customers without providing legal advice

Upload relevant content to applicable digital properties through the content management system and ensure content displays and functions correctly

Determine content for assigned digital products, including the creation of a long-term editorial calendar and managing deadlines

Adhere to strict deadlines and product management requirements for all assigned print products

Collaborate with team members and across departments (including marketing, product, production and development) to maintain content standards, implement content strategies, and ensure customer needs and deadlines are met

Meet frequently with product, production, sales and marketing staff to discuss projects and resolve problems

Represent the products and services in customer and prospect engagements, including onsite at internal conferences and industry events

Propose new product ideas in your area(s) of expertise across all product lines, and oversee all content-related phases of the new products process, including conducting research, writing proposals, and presenting the finished concept

Maintain an awareness of and adherence to company guidelines for messaging, tone, style, and editorial process

Commit to continuous learning to gain proficiency and remain proficient in all assigned topic areas

Additional Responsibilities

Ensure customer engagement and satisfaction with content

Identify areas for new content development to increase value of current customer solutions

Other duties as assigned

Critical Competencies

Ownership and Execution - Demonstrates a sense of ownership to drive issues to closure, maximizes the existing processes while continuously pursuing ways to improve efficiencies, sets aggressive goals, monitors progress, and delivers results, seizes more opportunities than others

Customer Centric - Establishes and maintains effective relationships with customers, effectively aligns strategy with customer's business, anticipates customer needs and sets high standards for customer service

Managing Ambiguity and Change - Makes decisions with available information that align with strategy, embraces and manages change, challenges the status quo and champions new initiatives, comfortably handles risk and uncertainty

The Individual

Background in employment law, preferably benefits (including health insurance and retirement), COBRA, HIPAA, Social Security and Unemployment Compensation

Strong familiarity with HR concepts

Demonstrated ability to discern customer needs and envision multiple solutions

Ability to drive multiple initiatives simultaneously and meet multiple deadlines

Self‑motivated team mentor

Strong verbal, written, analytical, research, and communication skills

Demonstrated ability in time management, multitasking, and project management

Attention to detail, accuracy

Strong organizational skills and ability to work in a highly collaborative environment

Ability to think logically, classify content, and apply taxonomy

Ability to write clearly for an HR audience

Proficient in Microsoft Office

Qualifications

JD degree

10 or more years' experience in working with benefits-related issues

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

All external applicants must be legally eligible to immediately work in the country of hire without current or future sponsorship.

If you require an accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act, Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act or similar law in order to apply for employment at Simplify Compliance, please contact our Talent Acquisition Team 1.800.727.5257, ext. 8101.

Job applicants may request to review the company's Affassertive Action plans by contacting the talent acquisition team/recruiter, Human Resources department or Chief People Officer.

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