About this role
Start date: As soon as possible
Contract Type: Full time, Permanent
Reporting to: Chief Executive
Salary: £37,000-£42,000 per year, based on experience
Location: Hybrid (London 1 day per week; remote)
ApplicationDeadline: 9.00am, Monday 24 August 2026
Job Description
About the role:
We are looking for an experienced individual to join our small, friendly and dedicated team to lead ILPA’s content and communications work. The successful candidate will be working collaboratively across the organisation to deliver a high-quality service to our passionate and committed members, and producing and disseminating ILPA’s internal and external communications through all available channels. This position would suit a self-motivated individual who is committed to our charitable objectives, and wants to help further them by: developing and executing our content and communications strategy; managing and improving our website; editing our weekly update to members; maintaining our crucial online archive of updates, documents, and data; and developing and executing our media strategy.
Application:
Please submit a completed application form highlighting why you are applying for this position and how you meet the personal specification, providing examples where applicable. Please return this to by 9:00 am, Monday 24 August 2026, along with a completed equalities monitoring form.
Successful candidates must be eligible to work in the UK.
Interviews (Hybrid):
Week commencing 1 September 2026. Please notify us in your application if we need to make any reasonable adjustments to accommodate you at the interview.
About the team:
We are a small, committed and expert team of 12 professionals in the legal, grant-funding, training, membership and communications spheres.
Aboutthe Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association
The Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association (ILPA) is a professional association and registered charity, the majority of whose members are barristers, solicitors, advocates and IAA regulated advisers practising in all aspects of immigration, asylum and nationality law. ILPA currently has approximately 4500 individual member contacts.
Founded in 1984 by leading practitioners in the field, and 42 years on, stronger than ever, ILPA exists to promote and improve advice and representation in immigration, asylum and nationality law, through an extensive programme of training and disseminating information and by providing research and opinion that draw on the experiences of members.
Our vision is a fair and effective immigration system that respects human rights and the rule of law. We realise this by empowering members to provide the best possible advice and support for migrants and collaboratively working to improve law, policy and practice.
ILPA is represented on numerous Government, official and non-Governmental advisory groups and regularly provides high-level evidence to Parliamentary and official enquiries. ILPA is at the forefront of engagement with the Home Office, NGOs and other Government departments.
To our members, ILPA is a community where they come to share knowledge, keep up to date with changes and receive high-quality training to enable them to practise effectively. Members also rely on ILPA to be their voice in seeking change for the better to immigration, asylum and nationality law and practice. This we do through the work of our expert legal team, engaging with policymakers and stakeholders, and drawing on the experiences and expertise of our members.
ILPA is an equal opportunities employer. We acknowledge that the legal and charitable sector can be less accessible to people from minoritised or racialised communities and lower socio-economic backgrounds, and we are committed to unsettling the status quo. In this role you will wear many hats and we recognise that the successful candidate may not have all the skills and experience listed in the personal specification. We welcome applications from you if you can see yourself in this role and have an appetite to gain new skills, knowledge and experience. We particularly welcome applications from individuals who have lived experience of the UK immigration system
Job Description
Content
Manage co-ordination and production of weekly ILPA Members’ update email
Liaise with the Editorial Advisory Board and legal policy team to commission blogs and content
Edit material in line with guidelines, arranging for peer reviews where necessary, ensuring that all material is accurate, appropriate, brand consistent and suitable for publication; uploading content to the ILPA website through the CMS
Manage production of the Annual Report
Liaise with Bloomsbury, ILPA’s publisher, to ensure that the ILPA journal content is disseminated as widely as possible
Track impact and success of content through relevant analytics to inform content strategy
Track and monitor publications aimed at immigration practitioners to inform content strategy
Work with colleagues and members to develop a content strategy that best supports members’ information needs
Communications
Manage the ILPA website (including the members-only area), editing and uploading new information and resources, and maintaining the online archive
Liaise with ILPA’s external website support team to ensure developments are undertaken efficiently
Manage ILPA’s social media channels (currently LinkedIn and BlueSky)
Respond to journalists’ enquiries, including arranging for media quotes and interviews, in collaboration with the Chief Executive and the Director of Policy and Advocacy
Together with the Chief Executive and the Director of Policy and Advocacy, develop and implement ILPA’s external communications strategy
Work with the Chief Executive to upgrade the ILPA website to improve user experience
Support and assist with grant funding applications.
Person specification
Essential skills, experience and qualities
Experience of content commissioning and editorial management
Experience of developing content strategies, including producing content with a user-centric