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The Legal Services Board is an independent body responsible for overseeing the regulation of lawyers in England and Wales. Our goal is to modernise and improve the legal services market place by putting the interests of consumers at the heart of the system.

Job Description

The Corporate Affairs Associate is a central member of the LSB team. Reporting to the Corporate Governance Manager, you will need to develop and maintain close and constructive working relationships with the Chairman and the Chief Executive, the Corporate Director (to whom you will work directly on some projects) and the Communications Manager. Confident and pro-active, with strong inter-personal skills, you will be responsible for either leading or supporting a range of governance, communications and corporate initiatives, which will require you to build strong working relationships inside and outside the LSB.

Corporate office

  • Manage the effective and efficient administration of the office of the Chairman and the Chief Executive, including identifying quickly where matters can be delegated, escalated, how they should be prioritised and tracked;
  • Ensure the timely commissioning, drafting and proofing of briefings, speeches, presentations, reports, meeting notes and correspondence including undertaking any necessary research to inform them;
  • Supporting Board Members in their external engagement activities, ensuring that event attendance is secured, briefings prepared and any issues arising are addressed.

Governance and operations

  • Ensuring that the Board meets its statutory responsibilities including under Equalities and Welsh Language legislation;
  • Working with the Corporate Governance Manager in preparing corporate documents and policies and managing the Board's annual open meeting;
  • Prepare agendas and papers, attend and minute a variety of internal and external meetings including ensuring that agreed actions are followed-up and implemented.

Corporate affairs

  • Monitor and report to colleagues on new developments emerging from regulators, representative bodies and other stakeholder organisations and following up engagement where required;
  • Working closely with the Communications Manager:
    • monitor and report on relevant international developments in line with agreed strategy, making necessary contacts and undertaking research as necessary;
    • ensure that the Board's website is well-managed and content is kept up to date;
    • be responsible for drafting or commissioning a wide variety of materials including newsletters, speeches, articles and web content;
    • develop the Board's approach to social media.

The Successful Applicant

  • First-class oral and written communication skills with close attention to detail, the ability to understand data and information, to write high quality, engaging and accessible content of all kinds;
  • Recent experience of working independently and prioritising competing and complex demands;
  • Recent experience of developing and maintaining constructive, effective and flexible working relationships internally and externally;
  • The personal gravitas to establish relationships of confidence and trust with the most senior colleagues and stakeholders;
  • Some experience of monitoring organisational performance and supporting corporate offices and/or high-level committees;
  • Some experience of preparing briefings and correspondence and undertaking basic research;
  • Strong understanding of the need for discretion in handling sensitive information and the judgement to know what can/must be shared and with whom and what should not;
  • An understanding of corporate governance in the public sector, including the role of the Board in an organisation.

A full job description is available on request.

Closing date

Applications for this post closed 11:59pm on Thursday 5th March 2015