At Browne Jacobson, we’ve always worked across business and society, and this expertise sets us apart. Social and environmental impact are at the top of our business agenda. We champion fairness, make the complex simple and forge connections between clients to find creative solutions. This is how we improve outcomes for every person, community, and business we serve.
With offices in Birmingham, Cardiff, Dublin, Exeter, London, Manchester, and Nottingham, we’re a UK & I based law firm with an international reach. Our sectors include health; real estate and construction; education; energy and infrastructure; financial services; government; insurance; manufacturing and industrials; and retail, consumer, and logistics.
We nurture talent at all levels and from every background and celebrate what makes people individuals. Law needs all voices to reflect the society it serves and we’re working towards social mobility, diversity, and inclusion in our firm and our profession. We strive to create meaningful personal and professional development opportunities and offer flexible working in support of a good work-life balance. We focus on wellbeing and individuality, so that all our people can thrive.
We’re a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who best meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role.
We strive to create meaningful personal and professional development opportunities and offer flexible working in support of a good work-life balance. We focus on wellbeing and individuality, so that all our people can thrive.
Why is this role important and how does it fit into the team, department, and wider firm?
This is a key role in the firm’s design team which will be responsible for the creation and delivery of videos, photography, and design work to support a wide range of internal and external marketing initiatives. They will help to create highly impactful, creative and audience specific visual communications across all areas of the firm that bring out brand positioning to life. This will include the creation of video for thought leadership campaigns, client events, internal team days and social media including LinkedIn, Instagram and YouTube.
The role will require someone who is willing to travel across our office network on a regular basis to facilitate videography and photography. There will be opportunity for creativity and learning in this role, working with an experienced and established design team and marketing team with a wide set of skills and expertise.
What does the role involve?
Video production and editing:
- Be responsible for the creation of video across the firm and supporting self-service video production.
- Producing edits using our Adobe suite and sharing them with stakeholders for feedback.
- Collaborate across BD & Marketing and with key stakeholders to produce and deliver videos in a range of formats for both internal and external audiences.
- Manage multiple projects at the same time, keeping them on brand, to brief, questioning ROI and meeting requested deadlines.
Photography and image library management:
- Organise and take photos independently including headshots and reportage style photography, or use suppliers, subject to agreed budget spend with the Design Manager and Head of Marketing.
- Be responsible for managing the firm’s library of stock photography, along with other members of the design team. This includes:
- Maintaining an up-to-date library of brand images available for anyone across the business to use.
- Selecting and downloading new photography regularly.
- Building and maintaining an asset library, which can be used across the business.
- Adding any photos to the library and ensuring they are tagged appropriately.
Design support:
- Working closely with the senior design exec to manage and support on a variety of design tasks as required. For example, this could include working on:
- PPT layouts
- infographics
- brochures
- banners and events collateral etc.
- quality review
Other:
- Assist with the production of podcast series – including (but not limited to) planning the campaign with Business Development (BD), editing, and uploading the podcast.
- Use the Monday.com board (workflow tool) independently, and in conjunction with the design team, to achieve more effective project and stakeholder management.
- Ensure key brand messages are clearly articulated – acting as a brand guardian/champion.
- Liaise with external suppliers for design job support, subject to agreed budget spend.
What technical skills are required for someone to be successful and enjoy the role
- Advanced experience of video and audio editing (Premiere Pro/After Effects, Photoshop and Lightroom – essential.
- Experience using InDesign and Adobe Illustrator.
- Experience in producing podcasts.
- Experience taking photographs and post processing.
- Strong understanding of Microsoft office including PowerPoint, Word and Excel.
- Good understanding of design principles and fundamentals (educated in Design).
- Experience in interpreting briefs.
- Experience in branding and its development, maintenance, and application.
- Demonstrable experience of having worked in a similar role.
Who would be a good fit for this role?
- A positive can-do attitude, with a flexible and independent approach.
- Creative flair for videography and photography with an eye for detail and storytelling.
- Previous professional services experience is desirable.
- Strong communication skills (written and verbal)
- Can act as a credible advisor to the business, treating colleagues outside of the team as clients, challenging constructively and making things easier. Leading the way in best practice and ensuring quality deliverables within deadline.
- Strong organisational and project management skills.
- Able to work dynamically and flexibly.
- Works to reduce volume, increase quality and improve results.
- Collaborative: working as a seamless team from a business perspective and advocating for and supporting colleagues.
- Understands what success looks like: regularly managing effectiveness (output/ROI) and feeding back recommendations to the business, raising awareness of the team’s value.
- Adaptable: for example, spending time in other offices, if required.