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Communications Officer

  • Part time
  • £26,250 pro-rata
  • Glasgow (Due to COVID-19, currently operating blended office based and remote working service)
  • Closing 21st February 2022


  • Advertised from 1st February 2022
  • 14 hours per week (0.4FTE post which can be worked flexibly)
  • plus 6% pension contribution

Role

LSA is seeking a communications specialist to create engaging content for social media, blogs, publications, videos, and news releases and to market the service to a wide range of stakeholders, including prisoners themselves and the project’s partner organisations.

This is an exciting opportunity to join Legal Services Agency (LSA)’s new project, Disrupting Cycles of Disadvantage: Early Intervention in Homelessness as Communications Officer.

This role will support LSA staff who are working with people entering or preparing to leave prison to address homelessness for them, and their families. This new Communications Officer role is funded for three years by St-Martin-in-fields Charity’s Frontline Network.

LSA is one of Scotland’s largest Law Centres. Through its solicitors and other staff, operating as Brown & Co. Legal LLP, LSA has a nearly 32-year legacy of serving individuals, families and communities across Scotland, addressing unmet legal need and the effects of poverty, disadvantage and discrimination.

We provide high-quality legal advice, assistance and representation in areas of housing law, preventing homelessness, mental health, discrimination, welfare benefits and social security, community care, criminal injuries compensation and employment law.

LSA’s legal service has developed pioneering legal remedies through test cases and campaigns on issues such as dampness, housing repair and evictions, Criminal Injuries Compensation, mental health law and asylum and immigration law. LSA also delivers a wide range of seminars and training programmes and publications on legal themes.

The work is rewarding, and the expertise of the Service is highly regarded and nationally recognised. There will be learning and development opportunities to work with other grant recipients from across the UK. In addition, the post offers scope to develop your skills through LSA’s in-house training seminars.

About you

You will be experienced in promoting services and instrumental in capturing compelling stories highlighting the impact of the project’s funding. You will develop engaging legal education resources to inform and raise awareness of housing rights for those assisted through the project. You will be a team player and will be flexible in taking on a variety of tasks.

Application notes

Closing date: Monday, 21st February 2022 at 5pm

Interviews: Friday, 4th March 2022 (to be confirmed)

Please submit your CV with a covering letter addressing the job description and person specification stating why this post is of interest to you to: elizabethstewart@lsa.org.uk.

Please include details of your current salary, notice period and a note of two referees one of which should be your most recent employer.

For equality purposes, please do not include your full name on either the covering letter or CV, only in your email.

The personal information in your email will not be made available to the selection panel.

Please also complete and return the Equality and Diversity Questionnaire. This information is used purely for statistical purposes and will have no impact on your application.

Please indicate whether you are eligible to work in the UK and if you require a work permit/visa to work in the UK.

Please also indicate if you have you any convictions (other than spent convictions) under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. If yes, please give details.

Legal Services Agency is an equal opportunities employer.

Legal Services Agency Ltd. is a registered charity no SC017160 and a company limited by guarantee, registered no. SC123919.


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