Digital Communications Intern - 12 month FTC (0467) - #192929

Mills & Reeve are offering someone the exciting opportunity to join our Communications team, sitting within our national Marketing group, as a Digital Communications Intern, on a 12 month Fixed Term Contract. Click the link to learn more and apply!

The role

As a Digital Communications Intern, you'll gain hands-on experience across a broad range of digital marketing activities. Working closely with experienced professionals, you'll support website content updates, optimisation, and social media management, alongside design and editing tasks.

You'll use our content management system (CMS) and corporate social channels daily, with opportunities to contribute to wider marketing projects and SEO initiatives. This is a hybrid role based in Birmingham, Cambridge, Manchester or Norwich, with a minumum of 50% office attendance expected.

The person

We're Looking For Someone Who Is

• Studying (or has completed) a degree in digital marketing or a related field
• Highly digitally literate, with strong attention to detail
• Skilled in written English, grammar and proofreading
• Organised, analytical and able to manage detailed tasks efficiently
• A confident communicator and collaborative team player
  
  

You'll Also Bring

• A solid understanding of social media platforms and strategies
• The ability to quickly learn new systems and processes
• (Desirable) Experience producing or editing podcasts
  
  

The activities

With Full Training Provided, You'll

• Maintain and optimise website content (including SEO elements such as metadata and alt tags)
• Create and publish content across Instagram, LinkedIn and YouTube, supporting campaigns (e.g. trainee takeovers)
• Assist with podcast and video production/editing
• Monitor performance and produce social media analytics reports
• Update blogs, alerts and wider website content
• Support development of CMS and social media best practice guidelines
• Contribute to marketing campaigns, internal communications and events
  
  

This is an exciting opportunity to develop practical digital comms skills in a supportive, collaborative environment while gaining exposure to real-world marketing projects.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

The Benefits

As you'd expect, we offer a competitive salary and a wide range of benefits. Click here to find out more about our core benefit offering.

Pre employment screening

If we offer you a role, we will conduct comprehensive pre-employment screening. This screening will include, but is not limited to, a basic DBS, verification of your right to work, a three year employment history and a self-declaration to assess your character and suitability for the role. Full details of our pre-screening employment process are available upon request.

The firm

Mills & Reeve is centred on achieving more for clients, their businesses and the wider communities we serve. Our clients and their industries benefit from our knowledge and learning, and receive consistent experiences with no surprises. We tell them what they need to know when they need to know it.

We build personal relationships, with advice individually tailored to individual need. And if clients need things we don't offer, we draw on our network to give recommendations. Our 1,450 plus people and over 850 lawyers share one vision – achieving more for clients.

By joining Mills & Reeve, you'll have the chance to build your skills and experience within a firm that's not only ranked in the top 50 UK law firms, but also one that truly values their people. We're also ranked in The Sunday Times Best Places to Work list, and have been awarded Platinum Investors in People. Our mantra is “Achieve more. Together.”, which we feel embodies our purpose and is more than just a catchphrase!

Our values are the principles that help us fulfil our purpose. Our people shaped them and live them every day.

• We're ambitious - We aim high, we embrace new ideas and we're passionate about our work
• We're open - We communicate openly and honestly to build trust, and we do what's right
• We care - We're committed to each other, our clients, our communities and the planet
• We collaborate - We're easy to work with, we offer help willingly and we get things done – together
  
  

And finally

Everyone at Mills & Reeve brings a unique perspective and ideas to the team and we do everything we can to help each person to thrive. We're committed to providing an inclusive and supportive working environment, are happy to consider flexible working arrangements, and want to achieve the right balance for both our people and the firm. We encourage everyone to ask if they feel they need any workplace adjustments, and will do our best to support with these.

To find out more about our diversity and inclusion work, visit our website .