Advert – Associate, Content Development

·       Turn legal complexity into clarity: Use your legal and plain language writing skills to give our customers clarity about the laws that apply.

·       Engage with a variety of New Zealand legislation: Work with diverse legislation for a range of different customer industries and sectors.

·       Collaborate and grow: Work with a high-performing team and help drive continuous improvements to our content development process.

Use your legal and plain language skills in Aotearoa’s fast-growing SaaS sector. Simplify legal complexity, create clarity for customers, and collaborate with a high- performing team.

About ComplyWith

ComplyWith makes the law clear for people who need to do things right.

Our vision is to be well known as Aotearoa New Zealand’s legal compliance leader,

simplifying legal complexity with easy-to-read content and pleasure-to-use software.

Our growing legal technology business works with over 180 Kiwi businesses, including many of the regulators and industry leaders.

The working environment at ComplyWith encourages grounded achievers who love doing mahi that matters and getting stuff done. We’re confident, humble, and authentic.

Get a taste of what we do at ComplyWith here.

We offer a unique opportunity to join a growing company in Aotearoa New Zealand's fast-growing SaaS sector. At ComplyWith we pride ourselves on an awesome working environment:

·            We do an honest week's work - long hours or late nights aren’t the norm

·            We empower each other to take on responsibility

·            Get involved in the interface between the law and technology.

About the job

In this role, you’ll use your legal expertise, people-focused perspective, and plain language writing skills to create legal compliance content for our Legal Compliance tool.

This role reports to our Head of Content Development and is part of our Content Team based in Ellerslie, Auckland. This is a full-time role.

While our preference is someone full-time based in Auckland, we will consider standout candidates who wish to work remotely or work part-time (at least 30 hours a week).

What you’ll be doing

Your primary role is preparing, reviewing, and updating plain language content for legislation applying to a range of different industries and sectors for our Legal Compliance tool.

You’ll learn our content development process so that you can:

·            Quickly develop a comprehensive understanding of the compliance obligations in a piece of legislation

·            Develop a customer-focused structure for presenting the compliance content

·            Draft clear and concise obligation statements

·            Draft informative and well-structured explanatory commentaries for each obligation statement

·            Research and locate guidance resources for the legislation

·            Peer review content drafted by other ComplyWith Content Team members

·            Assist with updating content as part of our continuous improvement journey or because of law changes

·            Identify opportunities to improve our content and the development process.

You’ll also:

·            Contribute to process and team efficiencies

·            Share your legal expertise with the wider business, including our customer- facing Customer Experience Team.

There may be some travel to our main office in Wellington. Usually, this isn’t

overnight and is about once a quarter.

How you’ll know you’re successful

You know you’re doing a great job when:

·            You’re able to efficiently create legal compliance content for a range of legislation that is customer-focused and aligns with our content development guidelines.

·            You’ve become an expert in our content management system (CMS) and other

technologies used in our content development process.

·            You receive positive feedback and are highly valued by the team for your responsiveness and impact.

·            You actively seek feedback and can demonstrate how you’ve applied it.

·            You start taking on more and more responsibilities in your role.

What you’ll bring

The ideal candidate will demonstrate the following:

·            A law degree with a strong academic record, preferably with honours

·            At least 4 years of legal experience, ideally in private practice and in-house across a range of legal areas

·            An ability to conduct thorough legal research and quickly analyse the implications of legislative changes

·            Excellent written communication skills, with an ability to write in plain language for non-legally qualified people

·            A growth mindset, with the ability to reflect on and apply feedback, and a commitment to personal development and continuous improvement

·            Problem-solving skills with a drive to learn and take on new challenges in a collaborative and practical way, embracing opportunities to use new technologies

·            A people-focused mindset, understanding that the end goal is to make compliance simpler for the people who work in our customer organisations

·            An ability to work independently within a close-knit team and ‘pull together’ as a

team when the pressure is on

·            A desire and ability to work in a way that’s aligned with our Operating Principles.

We do our very best to be:

o      Simplicity-driven

o      People-centred

o      Grounded achievers

o      Autonomous collaborators

o      Forever innovating

To find out more about our Operating Principles, check out the How we roll section on our About Us page.