Professional Development Manager - London, United Kingdom - Career Legal

Description

Job Description

My client, a leading international law firm based in central London, has an exciting opportunity for a Professional Development Manager to provide skills training and development across the London office.

The successful candidate will be responsible for implementing innovative training solutions and designing and delivering training and e-learning to all teams and practice groups, with a global focus.

The key duties will include:

• Develop and coordinate the delivery of legal and professional development training for London partners, counsel, associates and trainees to address their respective learning and development needs
• Oversee the trainee seat rotation and qualification process. Provide effective coaching and professional development support for our trainee cohort
• Work with human resources staff to coordinate the lawyering orientation process for new trainees, associates and counsel
• Manage the evaluation process for London trainees, associates and counsel, including supervising the collection of evaluations, interviewing partners to collect evaluations, organizing review materials for discussion of partners responsible for reviews, participating in discussions of associate performance, drafting career development messages, rankings and other performance messages, monitoring to ensure that performance messages are delivered, and participating in Evaluation Committee meetings
• Coordinate the associate reviews in the firm's Asian and European offices, as well as lawyer training across the firm's European offices
• Support the formal advising program for associates, including advisor assignments, orientation and training in advising-related matters
• Provide career counselling and guidance for associates and counsel on professional development and practice issues
• Convene, participate on and contribute, to the firm's Associate Liaison Committee. Monitor trends and best practices in professional development and make recommendations for strengthening the office's ability to develop and retain associates
• Convene, participate on and contribute, to the firm's D&I Committee. Monitor trends and best practices and make recommendations for strengthening the office's ability to promote DEI at all levels.
• Monitor trends and best practices in professional development and make recommendations for strengthening the office's ability to develop and retain associates

You will be either a lawyer looking for an opportunity to move in to a strategic L&D role or be an experienced L&D professional with a background in the legal sector. You must have solid experience in the design and delivery of training, using various platforms and approaches. Your strong interpersonal and high-level negotiation skills will ensure you are able to develop strong working relationships with internal and external clients. As there will be a number of projects executed this coming year, you must be able to manage a busy and demanding workload, whilst maintaining high attention to detail.

IMPORTANT NOTICE

It is Career Legal's policy, as a matter of courtesy to respond to all applications within three working days. However, because of the volume of applications, we are sometimes unable to respond to individual candidates. If we have not contacted you within three working days your application has been unsuccessful and your details have not been retained. Please apply for any other position that you may see in the future. Career Legal is a Recruitment Agency and is advertising this vacancy on behalf of one of its Clients. Thank you

Our website

For our application policy please view the link below. Career Legal is a Recruitment Business & Agency and is advertising this vacancy on behalf of one of its Clients.