Digital Communications Assistant

The Role

As Digital Communications Assistant, you will produce written and visual content, you’ll be the first point of contact for our online community, and you’ll provide general administrative support to the Digital Communications team.

You'll create written and visual content for our website and social media channels such as blogs, graphics, and videos. This content will aim to build awareness of our member offer and demonstrate the value that membership of the Law Society brings.

You’ll source inspiring content ideas from legal figures, influencers, and organisations on social media and share with the team each week

In collaboration with the Social Media Manager and Executive, you’ll lead on our day-to-day community management, such as monitoring direct messages, tags, and comments across our social media channels and responding in line with our community management guidelines.

You’ll provide administrative support for the team, including arranging meetings, raising purchase orders, keeping records up to date, tracking actions, circulating information, reaching out to members to help us share new content, and managing email inboxes.

Crucially, you will listen to online feedback through our comments, content reach and engagement rates to ensure that our outputs are audience-first and deliver on our strategic and commercial goals.

What we're looking for

We’re looking for someone with experience of producing engaging copy and visual communications, such as photos, videos, and graphics.

You will have experience of editing and publishing digital content such as social media posts or online blogs.

You will have demonstrable experience working in a busy professional environment.

You will be comfortable using Microsoft Office software, particularly Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint

You will understand communications best practice, including social media trends, email marketing techniques and blog styles.

You will have excellent communication skills, including the ability to write clearly and effectively.

As a person, you will be highly collaborative with ability to work closely with colleagues at all levels across the business and build positive working relationships.

What's in it for you

This is an excellent opportunity to work with contemporary thinkers in a progressive membership organisation. The successful candidate will join a strong brand with a reputation for excellence and legal expertise, committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion, and a culture of trust, clarity and respect.

We offer hybrid working, a generous flexible benefits package, a friendly working environment and the opportunity to develop your career within a professional organisation.

Please note: if you are an internal applicant, Pay Policy will apply.

Please take care if you plan on using generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools in your application. We’re not wholly against the use of AI, but we want to learn about you, your experience, and how you write. Generic and unedited answers from sites like Chat GPT, Gemini, or Copilot won’t tell us any of those things.

If you would like to have an informal discussion about the role, please contact Eddie Bingham on [email protected]

The Law Society represents solicitors in England and Wales. From negotiating with and lobbying the profession's regulators, government and other decision makers, to offering training and advice, we're here to help, protect and promote solicitors.

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