The Department

The People Team play a key role in enabling the firm to attract, develop and retain great people, and giving them the tools and support needed to develop and fulfil their potential, and that of the firm. The team is welcoming, inclusive, driven by providing a 'high touch' level of service, and collaborative in terms of how we work. The team consists of c.50 people in both business-facing, generalist roles (Advisory) alongside specialist teams (Data & Systems; Reward; Diversity, Inclusion & Wellbeing; Employment, Policy & Engagement; Talent Acquisition, as well as our Academy, which consists of Academy Learning and Early Careers).

This role will be within our Academy Learning Team with the opportunity to work alongside the wider business. The Mishcon Academy, established in 2013, delivers university quality education across a wide range of areas for everyone at Mishcon.

Duties and Responsibilities

This is an exciting opportunity for an individual to join our market-leading Academy Team on a 12-month fixed term contract. The role would support the design, development and delivery of our fee earner skills framework and curriculum.

Given the nature of our Academy offering at Mishcon, we are looking for candidates who are self-starting, able to build strong and lasting relationships, are confident presenters and are flexible in their approach.

Working in collaboration with key stakeholders across the team and wider firm, successful candidates will:

• Provide L&D support across all fee earning departments.
• Coordination and management of all L&D legal projects and programmes linked to fee earner development.
• Support with the design and delivery of our three academic terms, with a specific focus on legal learning.
• Create and deliver learning across the firm.
• Liaise and build relationships with both our internal and external faculty.
• Coordination of our fee earner professional qualifications and membership programme.
• Coordination of our induction process for new joiners and returners.
• Coordination and management of the fee earner L&D budgets.
• Partner with the supporting specialist functions within the People Team and beyond.

Skills/Experience

• Professional services background desirable, ideally within a law firm.
• Project and programme management.
• Good instructional design skills.
• Excellent facilitation and presentation skills, in person and virtual.
• Personable and confident, able to build relationships with stakeholders across the business.
• Resilient and calm under pressure.
• Pro active and clear communication.
• Adaptable and flexible approach.
• Takes initiative.
• Experience of LMS systems and online learning desirable but not essential.

Please note that this job profile is not an exhaustive list of duties but merely an outline of the key components of the role. You may be required by your line manager to take on additional responsibilities when requested.

About The Mishcon de Reya Group

The Mishcon de Reya Group is an independent international professional service business with law at its heart, employing over 1450 people with close to 670 lawyers. It includes the law firm Mishcon de Reya LLP and a collection of leading consultancy businesses that complement the firm's legal services. We have grown rapidly in recent years, showing more than 40% revenue growth in the past five years alone.

Based in London, Cambridge, Oxford, and Singapore, with an association with Karas So LLP in Hong Kong, the firm services an international community of clients and provides advice in situations where the constraints of geography often do not apply. The work we undertake is cross-border, multi-jurisdictional and complex, spanning six core practice areas: Corporate; Dispute Resolution; Employment; Innovation; Private; and Real Estate.

As of 1 January 2023, Mishcon de Reya and Taylor Vinters merged. The merger delivers on both firms' strategies to support the innovation economy and accelerate our growing share of the technology, media and life-sciences legal and consultancy services market in the UK and in key international innovation hubs globally.

In times of such far-reaching and profound change we want to be the law firm that enables our clients - and our own people - to shape the world's possibilities. We are here to help our clients benefit from new economies, new geographic centres of wealth, the new global movement of people and capital, and the impact of new technologies and new knowledge.

Our purpose remains rooted in our founding values. We take pride in the diverse range of people who make up the firm and are proactive in driving change and continuous improvement across the spectrum of equality, diversity and inclusion. Mishcon Academy , our in-house place of learning, development and new thinking for our people, clients and contacts and our innovative impact strategy, including a commitment to be a net zero carbon business , also play a central strategic role in the direction of the firm. In 2020 we launched Mishcon Purpose , a first-of-its-kind sustainability practice providing Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) advice and purpose-driven insight to clients.

The Mishcon de Reya Group comprises standalone businesses MDR Brand Management , MDR Cyber , MDR Discover , MDR One , MDR Mayfair (in London, Singapore and Dubai) and MDRx . Complementary to Mishcon de Reya's core areas of work, each is led by best in class professionals recruited from a variety of non-legal industries and sectors.

We strive to create a fully diverse and inclusive workplace where all our people are empowered to fulfil their potential. We are proud of our agile working culture and are always happy to talk flexible working.

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