CSR Manager 9 month contract £65-75K p/r Westend Law Firm
Posted 1 week ago by Job Board - Reed on Reed
£75,000 Per year
Undetermined
Undetermined
London
The role will involve the following:
- Managing the CSR Coordinator and CSR Apprentice, and responsibility for maintaining strong working relationships with CSR Committee leads and key internal and external stakeholders
- Development and oversight of the strategy and operations for each CSR area (reporting to the relevant CSR Committee lead for sign-off)
- Leading work on new partnerships and initiatives to further our CSR work, working with the relevant CSR lead and delegating where appropriate
- Driving engagement in all areas of our CSR work, including leading firmwide CSR communication, and managing support for CSR Committees and EDI Support Networks
- Embedding CSR into our operations and aligning our CSR programmes with the firm s values and business priorities
- Leading on the production of internal and external reports, support for pitches and ensuring we are meeting external reporting requirements
- Developing the external profile of our CSR work (e.g. through further external communication, events, external relationship building and awards)
- Remaining up to date with best practice and disseminating this appropriately
- Setting the overall CSR budget, with reference to CSR Committee leads, and monitoring expenditure against the budget
Tasks expected to arise over maternity cover period
- Manage the emissions measurement and reporting process, including implementation of emission reduction strategy
- Supporting the roll-out of the new EDI strategy, through an effective action plan to help achieve its ambitions
- Supporting the firm s consideration of B Corp status
- Ongoing embedding and management of a wide range of Charity, EDI, Pro Bono Sustainability initiatives, and support for the firm s Wellbeing programme
- Implementing new impact reporting model
- Making award applications
- Embedding the CSR Apprentice into the team and firm
Personal attributes
- Passionate about the role corporate responsibility can play both in the development of a successful business and society
- Experience managing a wide range of projects and developing a team
- Proven ability to work effectively at strategic and operational levels
- Excellent verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills
- Proven ability to persuade and motivate others
- Highly organised with ability to prioritise a busy and varied workload, and adapt to changing priorities
- Proactive, 'can-do' approach, and inclusive ways of working
- Ability to keep up to date with changing practice
- Attention to detail, thoroughness, and an outcomes-focussed approach to work
Skills
- Strategic and operational experience in all our CSR areas of focus (Charity and Community, EDI, Pro bono, Sustainability, Wellbeing)
- Ability to manage and motivate a team, and build strong internal and external relationships
- Strong communication skills (including proven ability to liaise effectively with senior management), as well as collaboration, facilitation and problem-solving skills
- Ability to identify and manage risks and opportunities
- Ability to design strategies that balance a range of priorities and expectations, and translate these into day-to-day action through the implementation of effective systems, processes and initiatives that encourage engagement
- Excellent knowledge of best practice and good connections with other practitioners and organisations, to ensure we remain up to date