Corporate Responsibility / Diversity Specialist

Job Title: Corporate Responsibility / Diversity Specialist

Salary: £50,000 + Excellent Benefits

Location: Liverpool Street, London

Our client, a major American law firm, are looking for a Corporate Responsibility / Diversity Specialist for their London office. This is a brand new position and you will play a key role in shaping, developing and driving the London office CR/Diversity strategies as well as implementing, coordinating and facilitating a range of activities and initiatives in line with their global strategy.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Acting as a key contact internally and externally for all CSR activity, which may include representing the firm at Pro-Bono and charity events and the CSR network
• Working directly with the London CR Steering Group and committee – producing minutes and coordinating actions arising from the meetings
• Preparing and overseeing the CSR and Diversity budgets
• Generating new creative ideas in order to encourage the firms employees to comply with and further their environmental policy and activities
• Helping embed and promote the firms D&I strategy by building  awareness and understanding of the benefits of a diverse and inclusive workforce
• Providing diversity information for client pitches
• Managing relationships with external membership organisations
• Managing all D&I initiatives
• Implementing and reviewing the D&I policy
• Providing advice, guidance and support on equality and diversity issues

This is a new position for the London office and so is a fantastic opportunity to gain some real responsibility and autonomy and make the role your own. It is essential that you have worked in a law firm or other professional services environment either in a diversity / CR role or in an HR, recruitment or L&D capacity with exposure to substantial diversity and CSR duties. You must also be an excellent relationship builder, able to develop a broad network of relationships internally and externally and be able to drive projects forward and willing to get involved at every level. Fantastic opportunity to join a top firm

McKinlay Law endeavour to contact all successful candidates within 24 hours. However, due to the volume of applications that we receive, we are not able to respond to every candidate individually. If you have not heard from us within 24 hours your application has been unsuccessful and we have not retained your details.