Digital Content Executive

Job Description

Digital Content Executive, Communications Team, £32,802pa, Permanent, 35 hours per week

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Digital Content Executive to join the Law Society of Scotland.

We are seeking a motivated, creative and high performing professional to join our Communications Team, bringing their skills, expertise and flair for visual storytelling to help us evolve our communications and engagement and drive continuous improvement.

Who we are:

We are the professional body for over 13,000 Scottish solicitors.

As well as setting standards for and regulating solicitor to ensure the provision of excellent legal services and that the public can have confidence in Scotland’s legal profession, we work to influence the creation of a fairer and more just society through active engagement with the Scottish and United Kingdom governments, parliaments, wider stakeholders and our membership. 

We also provide wide-ranging support to help our members thrive through our CPD programme and member services and engagement. We engage with schools through our Street Law and school debating tournament and engage with law students throughout their legal education journey.

Key Responsibilities for this role

The Digital Content Executive reports into the Head of Communications and plays a central role within a communications team with a wide and varied remit. The team is responsible for informing and engaging our audiences, including Law Society of Scotland members, the media, public and parliamentarians, and our internal stakeholders who include colleagues, our governing Council and committees.

You will play a key and specialist role within the Communications Team as we seek to maximise engagement with our audiences across a range of channels, including social media, video, podcasts and print.

We want you to bring your creativity, skills and expertise to help us evolve our digital communications and engagement by providing innovative and engaging design and digital content that is going to get us noticed.

What we offer our employees

We offer a comprehensive benefits package to support our colleague’s professional and personal needs. Some of these include:

• A hybrid working environment.
• Flexible working, to allow you to work around your lifestyle and commitments.
• 30 days holiday plus bank holidays
• A competitive pension provision scheme
• Excellent family friendly benefits
• Learning and Development opportunities to enhance your skills or through programmes leading to professional or academic qualification.
• Private medical insurance including dental and optical.
• Various health and wellbeing benefits such as confidential counselling services, bike to work scheme, eyecare, and offers on well-known brands through our Lifestyle savings offering.

As an organisation our values are respect, openness, progress, inclusion and integrity. We strive to embed these in all our interactions with colleagues, members, stakeholders and members of the public.

The Law Society of Scotland is an equal opportunities employer, and we welcome applications from candidates with diverse backgrounds. We hold a Leaders in Diversity Award in recognition of our commitment to advance fairness, respect, equality, diversity, inclusion and engagement within our organisation and the Scottish legal sector. More information can be found on our Equality and Diversity page. 

We are always on the look for new talent to join our incredible workforce. If you are looking for a new opportunity within the society, we would love to hear from you!

If this opportunity sounds like the one for you, click Apply now.

This vacancy will close at 11:30am on 14th April 2025

We are unable to provide feedback to applicants who are not selected for interviews.