Responsible Business Executive - London

Job Introduction

DACBeachcroft is currently on the look out for a Responsible Business (RB) Executive to assist in the delivery of the firmwide Responsible Business strategy.

As RB Executive, your key responsibilities will include identifying new charity partnerships, recruiting volunteers, and managing volunteering programmes. You will give presentations in order to update colleagues on RB activities and recruit volunteers for new programmes. You will organise internal and external RB events, liaising with Events and Marketing teams as appropriate. You will be responsible for our annual, network-wide Summer Holiday and Christmas volunteering campaigns. You will manage the volunteering platform we use to run our programmes, and capture and report on data for impact measurement, and also provide administrative support to the RB team.

You will be target-driven and ambitious to develop and grow our RB programme, working to meet and exceed KPIs. With some proven experience in this field (ideally 2 years), this is a special opportunity to work with highly-experienced RB professionals, for career development and progression in this field.

This role is based in our London office – hybrid role, office-based minimum 3 days per week. Travel to our Bristol and/or Newport offices once a week will be required.

We are a Disability Confident employer and guarantee to interview anyone with a disability, long term health condition or neurodiversity whose application meets the essential criteria for the role.  If this applies to you and you feel you meet the minimum criteria for this vacancy as set out in this advert then please contact recruitment@dacbeachcroft.com in confidence, quoting the reference number for this vacancy in the subject box of your email, and a member of the Recruitment team will be in touch.

Role Responsibility

Employee volunteering

• Responsibility for researching, developing and running volunteering programmes in London and Bristol, and supporting research, development and coordination of volunteering programmes in Newport
• Support RB Assistant Manager on new programme research for other Locations, and coordination of national programmes as appropriate
• Manage online volunteering platform to: capture volunteering data, draw off reports for impact assessment (measure progress on targets, identify areas for attention) and communicate with volunteers (thank volunteers, run surveys, coordinate activities)
• Lead national Summer and Christmas volunteering campaigns
• Capture monthly Pro Bono data reporting for Head of RB
• Responsibility for providing administrative support to the RB team to help deliver our strategy across national programmes and pro bono projects, on core administrative tasks including logging new pro bono clients, travel and room bookings, processing payments, processing expenses, etc

Events & meetings

• Organise RB special events (e.g. firmwide Town Hall, Pro Bono Week lunch & learn)
• Support as necessary on client events on RB/ESG hosted at our offices

The Ideal Candidate

• Some proven experience in the area of Responsible Business – this is a special opportunity for someone looking to develop experience and responsibility for a growing career in RB
• A high level of written and spoken English together with creative flair and the ability to compile persuasive and attractive communication pieces
• Ability to compile and present Impact data reports
• High level of accuracy and attention to detail
• Good IT skills including experience of using PowerPoint, Excel and familiarity with volunteer management platforms such as Thrive
• Self-starter with project management skills and the ability to work on own initiative and progress tasks with minimum supervision
• Good research skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills – able to network, influence and build relationships at all levels
• Well-organised and able to work under pressure, progressing multiple projects simultaneously and managing conflicting demands
• Tenacity and determination to make projects succeed, to meet and exceed targets

About the Company

We are a leading international legal business with over 2,500 colleagues and a diverse range of capabilities. We have 11 offices in the UK as well as offices in Dublin, Madrid, Paris, Singapore, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Miami. We also have associations/alliances with firms in Malaysia, Brazil, Peru, Argentina, Central America, the USA, Australia and Germany.

We are a broad-based commercial firm with a strong heritage in insurance, health and real estate. This is complemented by a fast-growing Business Advisory capability. We represent a wide range of clients, ranging from household names to government departments and NHS bodies. We act for all of the UK’s top-ten insurers, we are market leaders in the provision of strategic, commercial and regulatory advice to providers and commissioners in the health sector, and in real estate we advise all of the UK’s top-12 housebuilders.

We have an impressive legal pedigree, with 142 Chambers UK 2021 practice area and individual lawyer rankings. In Legal 500 UK 2021, the firm received a top tier ranking for 37 of its practice areas, and 58 DACB lawyers were singled out in the ‘Leading Individual' rankings.

Our successes have been recognised by the legal industry and the markets in which we operate. These accolades include two top prizes in the ‘Excellence in Business Development’ and ‘Excellence in Technology & Innovation’ categories of the 2020 Law Society Excellence Awards – the highest accolade for law firms in England & Wales. Our health sector team won the ‘Crisis Management Team of the Year’ award at the 2020 British Legal Awards for its support to the NHS at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, and our Cyber & Data Risk team received the ‘Business Development Innovation Award’ at the 2020 Legal Innovation Awards, as well as ‘Cyber Law Firm of the Year’ at the prestigious Insurance Insider Cyber Rankings Awards, for its market-leading suite of digital tools to help our clients prepare for and respond to cyber and data risk crises.

Our vision is to be leading business advisers, recognised for our insight and our outstanding commitment to clients, and for being the place where talented people want to work. For further details on our work and our culture, please visit www.dacbeachcroft.com.

Application Details

At DAC Beachcroft, we don’t just accept your differences we celebrate them.  From bespoke solutions for our clients, to treating you like an individual.  Our strength comes from your diverse ideas and bringing the whole you to work. So if you’re good at what you do, come as you are.  We welcome direct applications and are happy to talk flexible working.

We also want you to be at your very best.  Please feel free to let us know of any changes we can make at any point in the recruitment process that will help support your application.  If this opportunity sounds of interest to you, please make an application and submit your CV.  Your application will be dealt with in the strictest of confidence.

Note for Recruitment Agencies – the DAC Beachcroft recruitment team is responsible for managing all current vacancies through direct hiring and referrals wherever possible.  We do work with recruitment agencies and where we require external support we will formally release those vacancies to the agencies on our Preferred Supplier List deemed best placed to assist us.  Speculative CVs sent by any agency to any DAC Beachcroft employee without a specific request by the recruitment team will not be accepted and with no introduction fee applicable.  Our recruitment team can be contacted at recruitment@dacbeachcroft.com

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