Careers and Outreach Officer

Job Description

Careers and Outreach Officer, £37,259, Temporary (up to 14 months), (35 hours per week)

An exciting opportunity has arisen in the Careers and Outreach team within the Law Society’s Education, Training and Qualifications Directorate. Due to the upcoming maternity leave of the post-holder, we have a fixed term opportunity within the team for a Careers and Outreach Officer.   In this varied role you will be responsible for managing key school outreach initiatives, including an annual high school debate tournament and a Street Law programme as well as running support projects for new and future members and providing advice and information to students and new members. 

The Law Society of Scotland is the professional body for over 13,000 Scottish Solicitors and with around 170 staff members, our primary focus is to support a thriving profession of high quality and trusted Solicitors in Scotland with access to justice for all. At the centre of our organisation are the values of Respect, Openness, Progress, Inclusion, and Integrity which drive our teams to deliver the best possible service for the legal sector and beyond.

The work of the Education, Training and Qualifications directorate covers a range of areas which include setting standards for and monitoring provision of the route to qualification; regulation of and support for solicitor traineeships; schools outreach; engagement with students, trainees and newly qualified solicitors; equality and diversity; social mobility, and career development accreditations and qualifications.

Key Responsibilities for this role

In this interesting and rewarding role you will work within a team to deliver new and existing initiatives involving engagement with school pupils, students and trainee solicitors. The role includes:

• Project management of the Law Society’s school outreach work, including an annual high school debate tournament and a Street Law programme in secondary schools.
• Liaise with sponsors, partners, volunteers, and stakeholders to ensure the successful delivery of key projects.
• Prepare and deliver content tailored to new lawyers, including running events, website information and blogs. 
• Create, manage, and deliver the provision of careers education, advice, guidance and development activities for new and future members.
• Lead the delivery of the Law Society’s career mentoring programme, including coordinating training events, recruiting new mentors and mentees and providing guidance to those involved.
• Respond to careers enquiries, including one-to-one advice to new and future members and answer queries relating to the route to qualification.
• Develop, promote, co-ordinate and participate/present at school, college, and university careers events and law fairs.

Key Knowledge, Skills and Experience:

To be successful you will demonstrate our values of Respect; Openness; Progress; Integrity; and Inclusion.  Although specific projects are highlighted in the key responsibilities, it is not necessary to have experience of those exact projects.  We are looking for somebody who brings transferable knowledge, skills and experience in the following areas:

• Enthusiasm, self-motivation and self-starting skills.
• Experience of engagement with different stakeholders and audiences.
• A high level of written and oral communication with skills to create and deliver effective presentations.
• The ability to manage projects paying attention to detail within a multi-tasking role while managing time effectively.
• Excellent customer service, a desire to help others and to treat people with consideration.
• A proactive attitude and problem-solving approach to work, taking personal accountability for results.
• A commitment to teamwork and a willingness to learn.
   

What do we offer our employees?

We offer a comprehensive benefits package to support our colleagues’ professional and personal needs. Some of these include:

• A hybrid working environment.
• Flexible working, to allow you to work around your lifestyle and commitments.
• 30 days holiday plus bank holidays
• A competitive pension provision scheme
• Excellent family friendly benefits
• Learning and Development opportunities to enhance your skills or through programmes leading to professional or academic qualification.
• Various health and wellbeing benefits such as confidential counselling services, bike to work scheme, eyecare, and offers on well-known brands.

The Law Society of Scotland is proud to work with values of Respect, Openness, Progress, Integrity and Inclusion. We pride ourselves on investing in our equality, diversity and inclusion work internally for our colleagues and externally for the profession. More information can be found on our Equality and Diversity page.  

We are always on the look for new talent to join our incredible workforce. If you are looking for a new opportunity within the society, we would love to hear from you! 

You can find out more information about the Law Society and this role on our website. If this opportunity sounds like the one for you, click Apply now.

This vacancy will close at 12 noon on 21st October 2025

We are unable to provide feedback to applicants who are not selected for interviews.