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Sales Representative - LawLibrary SA

Laws.Africa is hiring an experienced Sales Representative to grow LawLibrary.org.za, our South African legal research product. This role is focused on proactive outbound sales: identifying prospects, starting conversations, running demos, and closing deals with legal professionals and institutions.

LawLibrary SA is used by legal practitioners, firms, students, and public institutions to access trusted, up-to-date legal information. Over 1 million visitors use our platforms every year in support of the rule of law, business, government, and human rights.

This is a hands-on sales role in a startup organisation that is scaling up fast. You will work closely with the Head of LawLibrary and leadership, carry a clear sales target, and be accountable for converting interest into paying users and partners. This role will play a key part in shaping LawLibrary SA’s commercial strategy and growth in South Africa.

Responsibilities

  • Own and execute the sales strategy for LawLibrary SA.
  • Proactively identify, contact, and qualify potential customers (law firms, sole practitioners, institutions, associations).
  • Run product presentations and demos, online and in person.
  • Convert leads into paid individual and bulk subscriptions.
  • Build and manage a healthy sales CRM pipeline.
  • Work closely with the Head of LawLibrary to align sales activity with product direction and roadmap.
  • Feed customer feedback and objections into product, pricing, and positioning decisions.
  • Represent LawLibrary SA professionally in external meetings, events, and partnerships.
  • Maintain accurate sales records and reporting.

How we work

  • We’re a small team that values ownership and clear accountability.
  • You will have autonomy, but also clear sales targets.
  • We prioritise trust, credibility, and long-term relationships with our clients.
  • We work remotely, across South Africa and other countries.

Requirements

  • Proven experience selling legal technology, legal research tools, or professional services to legal professionals.
  • Demonstrated ability to carry and hit a sales target.
  • Comfortable with proactive outbound sales (calls, emails, follow-ups).
  • Strong presentation and demo skills.
  • Clear, confident written and spoken communication.
  • Ability to explain legal or technical products clearly and credibly.
  • Highly organised, disciplined, and comfortable managing a sales pipeline.
  • Bias for action and persistence, moving as fast as the client wants you to.
  • Ability to work independently in a dynamic, rapidly growing organisation.
  • Familiarity with the legal profession in South Africa is a strong advantage.
  • LLB or legal background is advantageous, not required.
  • Based in Gauteng, South Africa, with ability to travel nationally and internationally when required.

Position: Full-time
Location: Gauteng, South Africa (remote-friendly)

Digitisation Manager

Laws.Africa is hiring a Digitisation Manager to own and coordinate the digitisation of large-scale legal source materials across our platforms, including gazettes, judgments, and other bulk legal collections.

The Digitisation Manager ensures that digitisation projects are properly scoped, planned, executed, and quality-checked so that downstream editorial, website and product teams can rely on a consistent flow of usable content. This content is ultimately used by over 1 million visitors every year, and supports the rule of law, business, government and human rights.

The Digitisation Manager is responsible for the day-to-day management and continuous improvement of Laws.Africa’s digitisation pipelines. This includes planning and coordinating bulk imports, managing digitisation teams and contractors, maintaining quality standards, and ensuring visibility into capacity, progress, and risks.

Responsibilities

  • Plan, scope, and coordinate digitisation work across gazettes, judgments, journals, and other bulk legal collections
  • Translate high-level priorities into concrete work plans, schedules, and milestones across countries and projects
  • Proactively scope new digitisation and bulk import projects from start to finish
  • Manage and support digitisation staff and contractors, including work allocation, progress tracking, and feedback
  • Reduce fragmentation and duplication across digitisation teams and workflows
  • Implement and maintain quality checks to ensure digitised content meets Laws.Africa standards and editorial needs
  • Identify and address recurring quality or workflow issues through improved documentation, guidance, and training
  • Track and report on digitisation throughput, turnaround times, error rates, and capacity
  • Provide regular status updates and early escalation of risks or delays to Operations and leadership
  • Work with Operations and technical staff to improve digitisation processes, tooling, and automation in practical, adoptable ways
  • Act as the primary point of contact for day-to-day digitisation coordination and issue resolution

How we work

  • We’re a small team that values ownership and clear accountability.
  • We work remotely, across South Africa and other countries.
  • We prioritise predictable delivery and follow-through over heroics.

Requirements

  • Strong experience coordinating complex operational or content-production workflows.
  • Proven ability to plan, track, and deliver multi-step projects across teams.
  • Comfortable managing staff and contractors in distributed or remote settings.
  • High attention to detail and focus on quality.
  • Clear written and verbal communication.
  • Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a small team.
  • Ability to prioritise effectively and raise problems early with proposed solutions.
  • Experience with digitisation, publishing, data processing, or similar pipelines is a strong advantage.
  • Familiarity with legal or government content is helpful but not required.
  • Based in South Africa or Kenya, with ability to travel nationally and internationally when required

Position: Full-time
Location: South Africa or Kenya (remote)

Case Law Editor

Laws.Africa is hiring a Case Law Editor to help build and maintain high-quality case digests and law reports across AfricanLII and related platforms.

This role focuses on identifying, analysing, and organising important judgments, especially from regional courts and across jurisdictions, so that they can be more easily discovered, understood, and used. The Case Law Editor will play a key role in improving access to case law by strengthening editorial quality, thematic classification, citation accuracy, and comparative legal research.

The Case Law Editor will also support Laws.Africa’s evolving editorial workflows by reviewing AI-generated case summaries, correcting errors, and helping ensure that technology-supported processes produce reliable legal information. This work contributes directly to better legal research tools for judges, lawyers, academics, journalists, civil society, and the public.

Applications are assessed on a rolling basis.

Responsibilities

  • Select judgments for inclusion in case digests and law reports in line with agreed selection criteria
  • Group and categorise selected judgments into consistent thematic areas for digest and law report indexing
  • Review AI-generated case summaries for accuracy and flag, correct, or escalate errors where necessary
  • Conduct comparative analysis of decisions from regional courts and national courts to support cross-jurisdictional research
  • Ensure regional court judgments are accurately cited and properly linked on AfricanLII
  • Research and curate regional court decisions to strengthen and expand thematic case digests
  • Maintain high editorial standards for legal analysis, classification, and citation
  • Work with editorial and product teams to improve caselaw workflows, consistency, and discoverability
  • Identify important legal developments and emerging themes for inclusion in digests and law reports

How we work

  • We’re a small team that values ownership and clear accountability.
  • We work remotely, across South Africa and other countries.
  • We prioritise predictable delivery and follow-through over heroics.

Requirements

  • Strong legal research, analysis, and writing skills
  • Experience working with judgments, legal citation, and case law research
  • Excellent attention to detail and commitment to editorial accuracy and consistency
  • Ability to classify and organise legal materials in a clear and systematic way
  • Comfort reviewing and improving AI-assisted editorial outputs
  • Good judgment in selecting and prioritising cases for editorial treatment
  • Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a small remote team
  • Clear written communication and strong organisational skills
  • Familiarity with African regional courts and cross-jurisdictional legal research is a strong advantage
  • Experience in legal publishing, law reporting, academic legal research, or legal editorial work is highly desirable

Position: Part-time contract
Location: South Africa

Data Capturer

Laws.Africa is hiring Data Capturers to support the timely and accurate publication of legal materials across AfricanLII, LawLibrary SA, and other LII websites.

The Data Capturer is responsible for uploading and maintaining digital legal content in line with editorial processes and publication standards. This includes preparing and publishing judgments and other materials, applying editorial and anonymisation guidelines, monitoring source websites for new content, and helping ensure that online legal databases remain complete, accurate, and up to date.

The Data Capturer will also support content quality and accessibility by proofreading materials, applying taxonomies, conducting audits, and assisting with the digitisation of gazettes and other legal resources. This role is important to maintaining the reliability and usability of AfricanLII’s legal information platforms for researchers, practitioners, journalists, civil society, and the public.

Responsibilities

  • Upload judgments in line with the editorial process and adhering to editorial guidelines
  • Identify and apply the in-house anonymisation policy to judgments that meet the anonymisation criteria
  • Proofread articles and other materials in line with editorial guidelines
  • Apply taxonomies to online materials
  • Monitor a selected list of public websites to ensure content databases are regularly updated
  • Conduct audits on AfricanLII, LawLibrary SA, and other LII websites as may be assigned from time to time
  • Upload materials on websites maintained by Laws.Africa
  • Digitise gazettes in line with documented processes and training provided

How we work

  • We’re a small team that values ownership and clear accountability.
  • We work remotely, across South Africa and other countries.
  • We prioritise predictable delivery and follow-through over heroics.

Requirements

  • Undergraduate degree
  • An LLB is an advantage
  • A diploma in Library Science is an advantage
  • At least 2 years of editorial experience, preferably involving academic output
  • Knowledge of legal citations and legal resources is highly advantageous
  • Strong attention to detail
  • Good Microsoft Word editing skills
  • Good Adobe Acrobat skills
  • Computer proficiency and a high level of comfort working with the internet and web technologies from an editorial perspective
  • Strong written English
  • Proficiency in other languages is highly advantageous

Position: Part-time contract
Location: South Africa