Responsibilities

• Oversees, and takes a hands-on role in reviewing external content, including, announcements, biographies, firm-produced legal updates and white papers, and other firm-authored content.
• Works with the Firm’s global editorial team to review workflow and processes.
• Supports strategic external marketing communications efforts that support the Firm’s brand.
• Ensures compliance with Firm risk and governance procedures, including review and engagement by legal, risk, and brand stakeholders
• Provides regular insights and training to lawyers to help them make their content more compelling and effective.
• Collaborates with Firm leadership and other departments to define and articulate the priority messages for internal communications campaigns.
• Develops internal communications campaigns across all relevant media to communicate the priority messages of the Firm – including written materials, cascading messages through practices groups, videos, podcasts, intranet posts, and other relevant media.
• Supervises the efforts of the Internal Communications Specialist to support fulfillment of all internal communications projects.
• Advises business services departments on development of effective communication strategies to increase engagement and understanding of firm-wide initiatives.
• Manages content on the Firm’s intranet home page.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in marketing, communications, journalism or a related field. A combination of education and/or experience may be considered in lieu of the degree when the experience has been directly related to the functions of the role.
• At least 6 years of experience in marketing communications, journalism or other communications roles
• Experience writing and editing high-quality, content-driven communications materials
• Strong working knowledge of all aspects of writing and editorial, including familiarity with editorial style manuals
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office products
• SharePoint (preferred)
• Adobe Creative Suite (preferred)
• Basic understanding of HTML (preferred)

Preferred

• SharePoint (preferred)
• Adobe Creative Suite (preferred)
• Basic understanding of HTML (preferred)
• Experience with internal newsletters and intranet communications (preferred)