Do you have professional services experience (in-house or agency) and have a desire to pursue a career with a highly respected law firm? You would be part of a small but highly collaborative team of three reporting directly to the Head of Communications. Your core focus will be media relations, proactive and reactive, and managing multiple stakeholders. This is a great opportunity for a comms professional who loves to write and engage and who knows how to influence internally and build relationships.   

Key responsibilities:

• Working alongside the Head of Communications, being a key and effective point of contact for all areas of the media.
• Handling the majority of incoming press queries into the firm.  Working with the Head of Communications when senior support is required.
• Creating and implementing a sector based media relations strategy.
• Ownership and end-to-end management of the firm’s regular transaction and case announcements.
• Supporting the Head of Communications in respect of the firm’s proactive news agenda, for example their  annual new partners announcement & Gender and Ethnicity Pay Gap report.
• Monitoring the firm’s existing and planned content in order that it can be adapted to secure media coverage in support of the above.
• Acting as a liaison between the Digital team, the design team, the Central Communications team and the relevant Business Services Department in respect of major campaigns.
• Managing certain significant projects with a strong external communications focus.  These might include a thought leadership project on an area such as innovation, the firm’s graduate recruitment brochure or communications elements of our legal incubator programme.
• Being the main point person for the firm’s external CR and D&I news agenda, including the drafting and management of all announcements.