Description
Linklaters is a global law firm, providing legal services in 20 countries and through 30 offices. The firm is a people business, looking for exceptional individuals who can work collaboratively and innovatively.
Your role As a Communications Specialist, you will bring direction and priorities to life by working with the Strategy Lead and accountable leaders to understand Technology & Data's agreed direction, priorities, programmes, and significant departmental activity. You will make complexity understandable, plan communication and engagement, create clear and effective materials, bring colleagues together, make progress meaningful, build connection and participation, and keep delivery moving.
Responsibilities
- Bring direction and priorities to life: Work with the Strategy Lead and accountable leaders to understand Technology & Data's agreed direction, priorities, programmes, and significant departmental activity.
- Make complexity understandable: Develop enough organisational and technical understanding to communicate with accuracy and confidence.
- Plan communication and engagement: Turn the most important activity across Technology & Data into a joined-up forward plan.
- Create clear and effective materials: Bring together contributions and shape them into clear, concise packs, briefings, and presentations.
- Bring colleagues together: Work closely with the CTDO, Strategy Lead, and leadership team to make town halls and other forums valuable opportunities for colleagues to hear directly from leaders.
- Make progress meaningful: Turn approved roadmaps, KPI scorecards, and leadership updates into a clear account of outcomes, progress, and material risks.
- Build connection and participation: Create inclusive, two-way engagement across the global Technology & Data community.
- Keep delivery moving: Coordinate planned and short-notice activity, making it easy for busy colleagues to contribute.
About you
- You communicate exceptionally well in writing, in presentations, and in person.
- You can work across strategic, programme, and operational contexts, adapting the level of detail and communication approach.
- You think analytically and see how different parts of an organisation affect one another.
- You are curious and ask incisive questions.
- You enjoy working with people who bring different expertise and perspectives.
- You are genuinely interested in how technology and data can improve the firm.
- You are highly organised and dependable.
Our benefits
- Health & Wellbeing: Private Medical Insurance, free in-house fitness centre and subsidised health club memberships, free onsite GP service, and periodic health assessments.
- Finance: Pension and flexible savings options, income protection and life assurance, mortgage advice, and will-writing services.
- Family & Lifestyle: Electric car and cycle to work schemes, emergency family care, additional holiday/birthday leave, maternity/paternity/shared parental leave, travel insurance, and season ticket loan.