Internal Communications Executive

Job Description

Internal Communications Executive, Permanent, £32,802pa, 35 hours per week

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced communications executive to join the Law Society of Scotland.

We are seeking a motivated, dynamic, creative and high performing professional to join our Communications team, bringing their skills and expertise to help us evolve our internal communications and engagement outcomes and impacts.

At the centre of our organisation are the values of Respect, Openness, Progress, Inclusion, and Integrity which drive our teams to deliver the best possible service for the legal sector and beyond. 

Key Responsibilities for this role:

The Communications Executive reports in to the Head of Communications and plays an important role within a busy communications team with a wide and varied remit. The team is responsible for maximising engagement with a range of audiences from Law Society of Scotland members, the media, public and parliamentarians, and our internal stakeholders who include colleagues and our governing Council and committees.

Our staff team and community of volunteers do fantastic work and as internal communications executive, you will play a key and specialist role within the Communications team, as we seek to maximise engagement with our internal audiences.

The role manages existing comms, which include our weekly videos and newsletters and monthly townhall meetings and will have additional responsibility for gathering feedback, identifying opportunities for improvement and implementing new engagement exercises.

You will advise on best practice, feed into and support strategy development and implementing internal communications plans to improve and measure internal engagement.

Key Knowledge, Skills and Experience:

You will be a motivated and high performing team player, with an excellent communications and engagement track record. You will have a flair for developing and delivering content across a range of channels for our internal audiences and your excellent attention to detail will be balanced with the ability to see the bigger picture and contribute to our overarching strategy.

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.

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 Monday 10 February 2025.

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