Senior Pro Bono Executive

Job title:

Senior Pro Bono Executive

Company

Pinsent Masons

Job description

Job Description:Job Title: Senior Pro Bono ExecutiveContract Type: 12 Month FTC – Family Leave CoverLocation: Any UK Office – Belfast, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, London, ManchesterRole OverviewHere at Pinsent Masons we bring together the best people to get the job done. We’re naturally curious, constantly learning, listening, and growing. We’ll truly value your ideas. You’ll be joining an award-winning, hardworking and commercially minded team, where you’ll have the opportunity to work with leading experts and form meaningful relationships, while making a difference. You’ll get the opportunity to be involved in varied and challenging work. Working in an open and supportive environment, to deliver outstanding results.Our people are our success, and we work as one team.We are recruiting Senior Pro Bono Executive to provide senior level support to the Responsible Business Manager, Pro Bono Lawyer and wider Responsible Business Team to support the delivery and implementation of the Pro Bono strategy and the firm-wide ESG plans.Our standard working hours are 9.30am-5.30pm, however, we are happy to consider flexible working requests.Candidate OverviewWe are looking for candidates who ideally hold the following skills and experience:

• Lead the global implementation of the firm’s pro bono strategy to increase engagement with pro bono opportunities by fee earners and business operations staff across the firm’s office locations.
• Assess new matters against the global pro bono policy, Monitor and discuss risk levels and conflicts on all pro bono matters, working with the pro bono partner and GCO as necessary.
• Responsible for pro bono file management including opening new matters, tracking and maintaining key client and matter information, developing new pro bono projects, and serve as first point of contact for fee earner queries.
• Support the production of pro bono data across the firm, tracking progress towards KPIs and identifying focus areas and potential growth opportunities.
• Support practice group, team and office pro bono leads to meet pro bono ESG objectives, including tracking progress at group, team, and office level and providing regular updates.
• Liaise with relevant external pro bono organisations and networks to track progress, identify and develop new opportunities for pro bono work and implement new partnerships.
• Manage relationships with pro bono partner organisations.
• Work with fee earners to develop opportunities for collaboration with client legal teams on pro bono matters.
• Negotiate and manage agreements with third party partners and projects with a view to maximising ROI
• Representing the Responsible Business Team at internal and external meetings, conferences and events as required.

What happens next?Once your application has been submitted and reviewed, our Recruitment team will share the outcome with you by email.We typically hold two interview stages per vacancy providing the opportunity to meet two members of the hiring team at each stage. The first stage is typically conducted virtually and the second stage typically in person at the office in which the role would be based. However, we strive to remain flexible depending on the requirements of the role or the candidate.Our strength lies in our differences.We are a Disability Confident and top Stonewall employer, a Valuable 500 member, a signatory of the Race at Work Charter and a proud partner of Neurodiversity in Law. We encourage and value different ideas and styles of thinking. It’s with different perspectives that we’ll find solutions to our clients’ most complex challenges. It’s how we’ll deliver outstanding results today, and tomorrow. We want everybody attending an interview to be comfortable and able to fully demonstrate their experience and talents.As an inclusive employer, we are willing to consider any flexible working requests.#IND#LI-BOSO

Expected salary

Location

Leeds

Job date

Fri, 28 Mar 2025 08:18:01 GMT

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