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About the Role

Stone King is seeking a Senior Knowledge and Information Specialist to shape and enhance knowledge and information services. This role involves delivering high-quality knowledge, information, and insight, identifying service gaps, and developing innovative solutions to support Knowledge Management ambitions. You will collaborate with various teams to advance the firm's Knowledge Management strategy and directly support legal teams, improving information access and client outcomes.

Responsibilities

Establish and manage systems for current awareness updates across the firm, including legal, topic, and client-related information, and support effective knowledge sharing.
Manage legal information resources and budgets, ensuring cost-effectiveness and efficient tool utilization.
Design and deliver research skills training, particularly for junior lawyers, covering general research, tool-specific training, and onboarding.
Promote accurate legal research and critical thinking, with a focus on generative AI.
Contribute to the Knowledge Management strategy and process improvement initiatives, strengthening knowledge-sharing and KM practices.
Collaborate with Business Development to deliver targeted research that enhances understanding of clients and their sectors.
Deliver high-quality knowledge, information, and insight across the firm.
Identify and address current service gaps.
Contribute to the development of innovative solutions for Knowledge Management.

Requirements

Experience managing research and information resources and budgets.
Practical experience managing processes for current awareness, horizon scanning, and information dissemination.
Strong research skills and curiosity about emerging AI-enabled research technologies.
Experience in knowledge management within a law firm or professional services environment, or knowledge mobilization within a research-driven environment.
Experience delivering legal or business research support.
Experience designing and delivering training to a professional audience.
Ability to work with a high degree of autonomy, prioritizing workload and delivering consistent, high-quality outputs.
Clear and confident communicator, able to explain complex information and knowledge concepts to colleagues at all levels.
Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build effective working relationships across teams.
Works collaboratively, with a proactive and solutions-oriented approach and a desire to help others adopt effective knowledge-sharing practices.
Strong attention to detail, combined with the ability to see the wider strategic context and understand how effective knowledge management supports client service and the firm’s broader goals around social impact.
Ability to influence and encourage adoption of new tools, processes and ways of working.
Experience of implementing document automation projects.
Understanding data-driven approaches to knowledge management.
Experience of building agentic workflows or other processes using AI and other technologies.

Skills

Research
Information Management
Knowledge Management
Training Delivery
Stakeholder Management
Communication
AI-enabled research technologies
Generative AI
Document Automation
Data-driven approaches
Agentic workflows

Location

Bath
Birmingham
Cambridge
Leeds
London
Manchester

Work Type

Hybrid working

Experience Level

Senior

Salary/Compensations

Competitive salary

Benefits

Profit Share Scheme
Cycle to work scheme
Private Medical Insurance
Life assurance (4 x salary)
Pension scheme
28 days holiday (in addition to statutory UK holidays)
Additional day allocated for CSR activities per annum
Focus on wellbeing and development
Support for work/life balance

About the Company

Stone King is an ambitious and purpose-driven firm specializing in the Business & Social Enterprise, Charity, Education, Public Faith and Private Client sectors.
Our collaborative culture and core values are intertwined with our ethos of doing the right thing by our clients, communities, and our people.
Our passion for the sectors we work in and the purpose-driven work we do with our clients has resulted in SK being recognised as national leaders in our specialist fields across the country.

Equal Opportunity

Individual differences are embraced at Stone King, and we strive to create an environment in which people feel supported and able to be themselves.
We are committed to promoting an inclusive working environment that supports the growth and development for all.
We are proud to be signatories of the Mindful Business Charter, the Race Fairness Commitment, and the Age Friendly Employer Pledge, and we are a Disability Confident Employer.
Stone King LLP is committed to offering an interview to any job applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the role.
We aim to make our recruitment process as inclusive as possible and will make reasonable adjustments where needed.
Stone King LLP is an equal opportunities employer.
We are committed to ensuring equality of opportunity by encouraging all our staff to achieve their full potential and guaranteeing that all employment decisions are taken without reference to irrelevant information or discriminatory practices.