Communications Advisor

About us: 

Linklaters is a global law firm, providing legal services in 20 countries and through 30 offices.

Linklaters is a people business. Being best in class in the eyes of our clients means that our people must be exceptional.

We look not only for brilliant minds, but for people who will thrive in our environment: people who love working collaboratively and demonstrate the innovative, efficient, agile, entrepreneurial, and responsible mind-set we aim to bring to every interaction.

Ours is an environment of outperformance. We achieve this not with targets and incentives, but by fostering a positive, supportive, fair, and open atmosphere.

We respect and value difference but insist on inclusivity. We celebrate all aspects of diversity and challenge any form of bias. This is vital to our ability to work as one team, with a common goal.

The Role:

As Communications Advisor, you will support the delivery of people-focused communications across Linklaters. Working with senior leaders and subject matter experts, you’ll craft clear, engaging content that promotes wellbeing, inclusion, firm values, and key change initiatives. This role is pivotal in shaping messages that inform, inspire, and enable cultural and business transformation.

Your Key Responsibilities:

• Develop, draft, and refine engaging communications for campaigns on people priorities, including wellbeing, diversity and inclusion, business transformation, and emerging technologies such as Gen AI.

• Advise stakeholders and contribute to communications strategies, ensuring messaging is clear, relevant, and tailored to diverse audiences.

• Coordinate the delivery and publication of people-related content across the firm’s intranet, newsletters, digital platforms, and visual channels.

• Partner with Business Teams leadership to create communications that drive organisational change.

• Support HR in promoting the employer value proposition and collaborate with Marketing to strengthen the employer brand.

• Monitor campaign performance through feedback and analytics, recommending improvements and refining messages based on data and employee insights.

• Assist in planning and delivering employee engagement forums, digital events, and other interactive initiatives.

• Proactively identify opportunities for continuous improvement and innovation within people communications.

What we’re looking for:

• Proven experience in internal communications, employee engagement, or change communications, ideally within professional services or a corporate environment.

• Strong ability to draft clear, engaging, and accessible messaging for internal audiences.

• Skilled in coordinating campaigns across digital channels and using analytics to measure impact.

• Comfortable translating complex topics into straightforward, compelling content for diverse audiences.

• Highly organised, adaptable, and able to manage competing priorities and deadlines.

• Excellent written and verbal communication, with strong editorial and storytelling skills.

What's on offer:

This role can be based in our London offices, with a hybrid working model available. Joining Team Linklaters will see you qualify for a range of benefits designed to reward the vital contribution you'll be making to our success. These include:

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

• Option to join sports and social clubs, as well as our employee networks groups (such as our Gender Equality, With Pride, or Social Mobility Networks)

If you think this role would suit you, please click apply below. We look forward to hearing from you!

Technical Skills

This list of duties and responsibilities above is not exhaustive.  It is intended to describe the general content of, and requirements for, the performance of this job. As such, the role may also include the undertaking of additional tasks as required.

Application Policy

Applications and CVs (direct or via agency) are only accepted online via the portal. Queries related to our roles must be directed to the relevant recruitment team and not the partners, practices or stakeholders ([email protected] for legal roles or [email protected] for business team roles).