Marketing and Communications Officer

CLOSING DATE FOR APPLICATIONS WILL BE AT 16:00 ON MONDAY 18TH APRIL 2022

We are inviting applications for a Marketing & Communications Officer to join Garden Court Chambers.

Garden Court Chambers is a number one ranked barristers’ chambers advising solicitors, members of the public and organisations across the UK and around the world.

We are committed to fighting injustice, defending human rights and upholding the rule of law. We help many clients use the law to advance social justice and equality. Garden Court has a proud history of winning ground-breaking cases of constitutional importance. Our legal challenges have overturned great injustices in many landmark decisions. Equally, our barristers fight hard for clients in countless cases that don’t hit the headlines, but are nonetheless vital for defending the rights of those we represent.

Garden Court is the largest chambers in London and the second largest in the UK with over 200 barristers. Our main areas of law are civil liberties and human rights, criminal defence, community care law, family law, inquests and Public Inquiries, immigration and asylum law and social housing law. Our work attracts media attention on an almost daily basis. We have over 30K followers on social media across eight social media feeds.

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Marketing & Communications Officer Duties

Reporting to: Director of Communications & Marketing (DCM)

  1. Promoting chambers through high-quality marketing communications with an emphasis on innovation and continuous improvement.
     
  2. Assisting DCM in delivering marketing plans for chambers and practice teams. 
     
  3. Maintaining and updating the Garden Court website content, ensuring high-quality copy. 
     
  4. Writing regular news items for the website. Maintaining key pages, including practice team pages, barrister profiles and event pages
     
  5. Working with the relevant Practice Managers and barristers to plan, manage and publicise online and in-person events.
     
  6. Producing digital and printed promotional collateral, liaising with practice teams and external designers and suppliers. 
     
  7. Promoting chambers through our social media channels, in particular: @gardencourtlaw, @GCCcivillibs, @GardenCtPublic, @gcchousing, @GardenCtCrime Twitter feeds and our LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram pages. Conceive and curate content for social media. Engage with our key clients through social media. Grow our followers and engagement on social through targeted and creative campaigns. Understand and improve our audience on social through analytics. 
     
  8. Delivering well-targeted and high-quality email marketing including practice team newsletters. 
     
  9. Producing timely and high-quality submissions for the legal directories, Chambers & Partners and the Legal 500, with the purpose of publicising our key work and improving our rankings in these directories. Promote rankings and awards through all relevant marketing channels. 
     
  10. Media monitoring and promoting media coverage through our marketing channels. Occasionally respond to press enquiries where appropriate and maintain our database of journalists.
     
  11. Assisting with the writing and submission of award nominations and publicising our awards. 
     
  12. Producing an equal opportunities report on our key marketing channels every six months to monitor the gender representation in these channels. 
     
  13. Feeding into reports to measure the reach and impact of Garden Court marketing activities. 
     

Person Specification (skills, experience and competencies required in this post)

ESSENTIAL:

  • Graduate study (or equivalent educational attainment) 
  • At least two years experience working in marketing and communications for a law firm or professional services firm. Alternatively experience working for charity, NGO or public policy organisation aligned to our values and areas of law (see website). 
  • Demonstrable support of our values of respect for human rights and commitment to social justice 
  • Experience of organising and arranging events 
  • Experience of commissioning and design of digital and print marketing materials
  • Experience of writing or editing interesting and engaging copy for all marketing channels
  • Excellent standard of oral and written English with the ability to proof read to exacting standards
  • Media savvy and politically astute with an interest in current affairs
  • Experience of web and email marketing 
  • Demonstrable experience of managing and growing social media accounts
  • Resourceful with the ability to work independently
  • Capable of multi-tasking marketing initiatives across a number of teams and the ability to meet tight deadlines
  • Willingness to work flexibly to ensure that events are covered (this includes occasional evenings, for which time off is given)
  • Ability to supervise others

DESIRABLE: one or more of the following:

  • Previous experience working for a barristers’ chambers or law firm
  • Marketing or Communications qualifications


Salary, Benefits and Terms and Conditions 

  • This position attracts a salary of circa £30-£32k depending on experience plus staff benefits
  • Hours: 09:30-18:00 or 9.00-17.30 Monday-Friday 
  • Three days in our Lincoln’s Inn Fields office and two days working remotely
  • Holidays: 25 days per annum pro rata (excluding bank holidays but including three days between Christmas and New Year) 
  • Interest-free loan for travel card (after probation) 
  • Pension, including a 5% employer's contribution after six months, and income-protection schemes 
  • Free use of gym equipment
  • The successful applicant will be required to sign an undertaking of confidentiality 


How to apply

To apply, please complete and return the application form and equality and diversity monitoring form to daviddm@gclaw.co.uk by 4pm on Monday 18 April 2022. 

To download a copy of the job description and person specification, please click here

Garden Court is committed to eliminating all forms of discrimination and to encouraging diversity. Applications from ethnic minority and women candidates are particularly welcome. We seek to operate a fair recruitment process.

How to Apply

To apply for this post, please complete the following:

1. Application form

2. Equal opportunities monitoring form

We are top ranked by independent legal directories and consistently win awards.

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