External Affairs Executive

Ygam; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Flexible benefits

Friendly working environment

Job summary

The Law Society is seeking a proactive, people‑focused professional to join the external affairs team in London. You will coordinate engagement with major law firms, in‑house legal teams and key stakeholders, ensuring members’ voices are represented and promoting valuable resources and support.

The role offers hybrid working and a supportive environment for professional growth. With strong project management, communication and relationship‑building skills, you will manage multiple priorities,

Qualifications

• Proven experience building and maintaining strong working relationships with a wide range of stakeholders.
• Excellent project management, communication, presentation, report writing and drafting abilities.
• High initiative, problem solving and decision‑making skills.
• Outstanding organisation and attention to detail with the ability to manage multiple priorities.

Responsibilities

• Support coordination of engagement with large law firms, in‑house legal teams and industry stakeholders.
• Collaborate with public affairs, international and member communications teams to deliver a compelling member offer.
• Coordinate meetings, track actions to completion and ensure initiatives progress on time.
• Represent members' voices within the organisation and promote resources available to them.

Skills

Project mgmt

Communication

Presentations

Report writing

Drafting

Initiative

Problem solving

Decision making

Organization

Stakeholder mgmt

Analytical skills

Computer skills

Database skills

Job description

The Role

This is an excellent opportunity to join a dynamic external affairs team, supporting the coordination of engagement with some of the UK's largest law firms, leading in‑house legal teams, and key industry stakeholders.

Working closely with colleagues across public affairs, international, and member communications teams, you will play a key role in delivering a compelling and effective large‑firm member offer.

The role offers varied and meaningful engagement with members and stakeholders from across the legal and professional services sector. You will help ensure members' voices are represented within the organisation, while also promoting the valuable resources and support available to them. In doing so, you will contribute to maximising the organisation's influence, visibility, and impact.

This is an exciting and wide‑ranging position where your skills, knowledge, and expertise will be used to make a real difference.

What we're looking for

You will be a people‑focused team player, with proven experience building and maintaining strong, effective working relationships with a wide range of stakeholders at all levels.

Highly organised and proactive, you will be comfortable working both collaboratively and independently, often managing multiple priorities and meeting tight deadlines.

You will have experience supporting or managing projects and initiatives, ideally within a membership engagement or communications environment. This will include coordinating meetings, tracking actions to completion, and ensuring initiatives progress effectively.

Essential criteria

• Excellent project management, communication, presentation skills, report writing and drafting skills
• High level of initiative, problem solving and decision‑making skills
• Excellent organisation skills and attention to detail
• Excellent ability to build, develop and maintain working relationships with other team members and with senior internal and external stakeholders
• Excellent analytical, computer and database skills

Please see the job description for more details.

What's in it for you

This is an excellent opportunity to work with contemporary thinkers in a progressive membership organisation. The successful candidate will join a strong brand with a reputation for excellence and legal expertise, committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion, and a culture of trust, clarity, excellence and respect.

We offer hybrid working, a generous flexible benefits package, a friendly working environment and the opportunity to develop your career within a professional organisation.

Please note: if you are an internal applicant, Pay Policy will apply.

The Law Society represents solicitors in England and Wales. From negotiating with and lobbying the profession's regulators, government and other decision makers, to offering training and advice, we're here to help, protect and promote solicitors.