Events & Communications Assistant

Reporting to Head of Communications & Marketing

About Garden Court

Garden Court Chambers is looking for an Events & Communications Assistant to join our marketing team. For more than 50 years, Garden Court has been at the forefront of some of the UK's most important legal challenges. We are committed to defending human rights, advancing equality, upholding the rule of law, and fighting injustice. With more than 200 barristers, we are the largest chambers in London and one of the most highly ranked sets in the country. Our work changes lives. It shapes public policy, challenges unlawful decision-making, and regularly attracts national media attention.

We are looking for an organised, proactive and detail-oriented individual who wants to play a key role in supporting our events programme, legal directory submissions, and wider marketing work.

The Marketing Team includes the Head of Communications and Marketing, a Marketing and Communications Manager, and an Events Manager. Our small, collaborative team plays a vital role in supporting and marketing our barristers. In 2025, we produced over 70 events ranging from online, hybrid and in-person panel discussions, to bespoke roundtables, training sessions, and parties, all bringing together legal professionals, policy specialists, NGOs, community groups, and activists. Our events offer expert legal insight, legal training, thought leadership, and networking, as well as showcasing our leading case work. Each year, we publish thousands of communications across our digital channels, enable dozens of award wins and shortlists, and help secure hundreds of directory rankings.

The Role

Purpose of the role: You will help deliver a busy programme of events that brings together legal professionals, NGOs, campaigners, academics, policy specialists and community organisations. From online webinars and hybrid seminars to networking events and conferences, you will help ensure every event runs smoothly and professionally. A key part of the role is to support the preparation of submissions to Chambers & Partners and Legal 500, helping to showcase the expertise and achievements of our barristers.

Core duties:

• Event production and delivery: book rooms and catering; liaise with speakers; manage live webinars and hybrid seminars; format PowerPoints; diarise events using our CRM; edit and upload event recordings; process bookings; and coordinate with facilities, security, and reception.
• Event hosting duties: greet guests and welcome speakers; manage cloak rooms, event signage, and catering; set up and clear rooms; manage remote access for delegates and speakers; set out and clear drinks (including alcohol); support the needs of guests and speakers.
• Event promotion: draft, create and send event invitations using Campaign Monitor, LinkedIn and Wordpress; use CRM and Campaign Monitor to create event invitation lists.
• Directories: maintain databases of barristers who are making submissions; proof read and re-reformat submissions; chase barristers for their submissions; accurately record and save submissions; prepare documents and referee spreadsheets for submission; arrange interviews with directory researchers; prepare briefing documents for interviews.

Additional duties: During the directory ‘off season’ you will be involved in supporting a range of marketing activities, including social media posting, writing news items, updating web pages, and drafting award entries.

About You: You may be looking for your first professional role in marketing, events, or the legal sector, or you may already have experience in a similar position. Whilst experience in similar roles is preferred, it is more important that you can work well under pressure and on your own initiative, be a collaborative team player, and have excellent administration and organisational skills and strong customer service instincts.

Person Specification: Whilst full training will be provided, to be shortlisted you must be able to demonstrate the following capabilities:

• Use Excel to interrogate, check, and manipulate data.
• Excellent attention to detail and the ability to process information, accurately and at pace.
• Develop and follow administrative processes and adapt them under own initiative.
• Confidence in front-of-house and client-facing hosting capacities whilst looking after senior, high value guests, anticipating their needs and enhancing customer experience.
• Able to use spreadsheets and quickly learn new systems including CRMs, social media software and platforms (e.g. LEX, Canva, Campaign Monitor, Wordpress, LinkedIn, Zoom, Outlook, and Microsoft suite).
• Excellent standard of oral and written English with the ability to proof-read and spot errors to exacting standards.
• Resourceful, with the ability to work independently, multi-task and meet tight deadlines.
• Willingness to work flexibly to ensure that events are covered (this includes occasional evenings, for which time off in lieu is given).
• Support Garden Court’s values of respect for human rights and the rule of law, and our commitment to social equity.

Salary, Benefits and Terms and Conditions: This is an office based full-time role (37.5 hours per week), based at 9 Carmelite Street, London, EC4Y 0DR. The salary is £30,000 pa. Probation period is 6 months. Two work from home days per week (after three months). Holidays: 25 days per annum pro rata (plus bank holidays). Birthday leave. Interest-free loan for travel card (following successful completion of probation). Death in service benefit (following successful completion of probation). Pension. Monthly lunch. Daily fruit and breakfast. Other wellbeing initiatives. The successful applicant will be required to sign an undertaking of confidentiality.