The Legal Services Board is an independent body responsible for overseeing the regulation of lawyers in England and Wales. We regulate nine approved regulators, each of which has responsibility for the day-to-day regulation of different types of lawyers.

Typical responsibilities include:

Private office
•Helping to ensure that the Chair and Chief Executive have effective medium and long term forward engagement strategies in place so that their time and internal and external relationships are managed effectively
•Ensuring the timely commissioning and drafting of briefings and correspondence including undertaking any necessary research to inform them. You may also be asked to prepare speeches, presentations and reports

Communications
Contributing to the delivery of the LSB’s communications strategy including:
•Monitoring and reporting on relevant international developments, making necessary contacts and undertaking research as necessary
•Ensuring that the Board’s website is well-managed and content is kept up to date
•Monitoring and reporting to colleagues on new developments emerging from regulators, representative bodies and other stakeholder organisations, and building engagement.

Corporate support
•Deputising for the Corporate Governance Manager when necessary to include preparation of agendas and papers, attending and minuting a variety of internal and external meetings following up agreed actions and making sure they are implemented preparing corporate documents and policies

Requirements
•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
•Confident working independently and prioritising competing and complex demands
•Experience of developing and maintaining constructive, effective and flexible working relationships internally and externally
•Good experience of preparing briefings and correspondence and undertaking basic research
•A personal style that enables relationships of confidence and trust to be built quickly with the most senior colleagues and stakeholders
•Some experience of supporting a corporate office and/or committees

See http://www.michaelpage.co.uk/job-detail/corporate-affairs-associate/ref/13832832?source=browse.