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Professional Development Coordinator
Rapidly growing elite US law firm is looking to hire a new Professional Development Coordinator to work with some of London’s very best lawyers.
- To £45,000
- Fantastic Benefits including very generous pension and free meals
- 9:30am to 5:30pm
- Office based
Professional Development Coordinator duties will include:
- • Provide assistance for London internal programs including preparing sign-in sheets and organising final materials.
- • Schedule conference room space for events and programs.
- • Invite management – liaising with secretaries/presenters, reception on availability, understanding populations of groups to know who to invite, understand training requirements
- • Keeping up to date with date/session changes – flagging where appropriate.
- • Attend and monitor live training programs.
- • Coordinate across the Operation's Team (including Business Development, DE&I, Legal Personnel) to manage and synchronise firm’s multiple event calendars.
- • Assist training coordinators with post-programming materials, including finalising timed agendas, sign-in sheets, evaluation forms and summaries
- • Attendance tracking and uploading training videos and materials to the firm’s tracking system, Micron.
- • Serve as back-up and provide support for all programs and events.
- • Help maintain multiple Career Development tracking charts.
- • Assist with scheduling one-on-one coaching sessions with external coaches and internal team members’ meetings with large classes of associates.
- • Assist Career Development team with outside consultant/coaching schedules.
- • Assisting with new joiner onboarding including the extranet and new joiner forms etc.
- • Tracking the HireRight check process for all legal joiners including liaising with HireRight and candidates to follow up as necessary.
- • Assisting the wider HR team with visa and immigration processes and tracking as required.
- • Preparing first draft leave letters for Senior Manager to review.
- • Scheduling check-in meetings as required for the Senior Manager with new joiners and flagging these dates for regular PG outreach.
- • Assisting with the London set up of lateral ‘buddy’ program.
- • Creating and updating London PG team sheets and ‘Facebook’ docs on regular basis (in conjunction with London Marketing & BD/Graphics team).
- • Assisting with scheduling and administration on the annual review process including tracking feedback to identify areas for proactive follow up.
Professional Development Coordinator requirements:
- • Bachelor’s degree desirable.
- • One to two years of experience working within a professional services environment, ideally a global law firm.
- • Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate effectively at all levels.
- • Excellent organizational skills, ability to multi-task and work in an environment with shifting priorities and have meticulous attention to detail.
- • Resourceful, driven attitude with a genuine desire and energy to use a ‘can do’ approach to ensure team success.
- • Enthusiastic about the subject of legal professional development and personnel support.
