CSR Manager 9 month contract £65-75K p/r Westend Law Firm

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
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London
p>Our client, a mid sized law firm based near Marylebone has a vacancy for a CSR Manager for their busy team. This is to cover maternity leave.

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