Practice Development Executive (Projects)

Practice Development Executive

Practice Development Executive (Projects)
Location: Edinburgh or Glasgow

Brief

We are currently looking to recruit a Practice Development Executive into our Projects Team based in Edinburgh or Glasgow.

The ideal candidate will enjoy working with people and can use their technological skills to be efficient in the role. Experience of working in a legal or professional services environment would be beneficial though not essential.

Background

• Principally to provide support to the Projects Leadership and our Projects PDLs on knowledge training and practice developments in Projects to enhance efficiency and consistency in legal work across the wider Projects Group.
• Some of our recent Practice Development Executives have used the handson experience gained in their role to excel in their role as Trainee Solicitors.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

Knowledge Management

• Liaising with fee earners to collect knowhow.
• Collaborating with global offices to share knowhow training and best practice.
• Maintaining the Projects internal knowledge management system including day to day maintenance of the Projects teamsite hub sites and legal knowhow databases.
• Assisting in creating and maintaining knowhow and report templates.
• Supporting the PDL on the development and maintenance of client initiatives and assisting sector and client relationship teams.
• Horizon scanning monitoring and providing updates on legal policy and industry developments that support the delivery of practice team sector and client initiatives.
• Undertaking various research tasks including drafting and assisting with research papers.
• Monitoring and supporting new starts by identifying appropriate resources.
• Assisting fee earners in locating internal and external knowhow.

Training

• Assisting in organising and coordinating training (online and in person events such as Masterclasses) including liaising with speakers compiling necessary materials and obtaining feedback.
• Assisting in coordinating managing and hosting the biannual Projects trainee inductions.
• Monitoring progress and uptake of the junior training programme.
• Maintenance of our online training portal to ensure all training films and materials are uploaded and categorised appropriately.

The Candidate Required

Qualifications and Relevant Experience

• Preferably educated to degree level or equivalent.
• Previous paralegal legal or research experience preferred.
• Previous experience of SharePoint document management systems intranets extranets and data site management advantageous.

Key Skills

• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Highly organised.
• Proactive approach and able to drive forward a programme of activities.
• Ability to achieve deadlines with a practical approach to workload and priorities.
• Strong research skills.
• IT literate with a good knowledge and high degree of competency in the use of Microsoft Word and Outlook.

Personal Qualities / Behaviours Skills

• Professional appearance and manner.
• Flexible and able to use own initiative requiring limited guidance.
• A motivated selfstarter who is a good team player.
• Must be flexible adaptable and have a professional attitude to work.
• Ability to interact with and be accessible to people at all levels and across many offices both in the UK and worldwide.
• Ability to make connections and develop professional relationships across Projects the firm and externally with clients/key affiliations.
• Flexibility to travel as/when required to support the Projects groups nationally.

What will we offer you

• We are a market leading dynamic and growing global team who work together to produce outstanding results for our clients.
• We invest in our team and have a firstclass training and career development programme regular 121s career discussions and annual appraisals. Our training reflects our position as a market leader in communications and sourcing. Our training will assist you to develop as a specialist with valuable sector knowledge and the ability to deliver best of breed services.

About the Firm

Pinsent Masons is a global 100 law firm with over 3800 employees operating out of 28 locations across Europe Asia Pacific Africa and the Middle East. We have a longstanding reputation for delivering highquality legal advice rooted in a deep understanding of the sectors and geographies in which our clients operate. Our global reach ensures that we are wellplaced to advise on complex multijurisdictional matters across a full range of legal disciplines.

The firm has significant multinational credentials in the financial services energy infrastructure real estate and advanced manufacturing and technology sectors. Services provided across these sectors include asset management and investment funds corporate and M&A commercial competition litigation and arbitration banking restructuring insurance regulatory construction projects pensions property planning and environmental procurement outsourcing employment share plans and incentives technology and tax advice.
We value diversity and inclusion. We are committed to creating a better workplace where all our people can succeed and feel like they belong. We want to attract retain and develop people at all levels and encourage applications from all suitably qualified candidates whatever their ethnicity religion age physical or mental disability/long term condition sexual orientation gender identity or expression or other characteristics. We have embedded a range of diversity and inclusion initiatives to create an environment in which our people can flourish.
We stand out for our innovative approach to service delivery. For example the firm has developed a number of inhouse legal technology and project management solutions operates a hub of freelance lawyers called Vario and a global Diversity and Inclusion consultancy Brook Graham.

Put simply we offer a range of professional disciplines to our clients enabled by our people process and technology.

Awards

Were being recognised equally by commentators and other market movers through a plethora of awards spanning every region and culminating in being named law firm of the year by Legal Business the FTs most innovative law firm in Europe (for the third time in eight years) winning their sustainability award in Asia Pacific and being ranked as Thomson Reuters leading legal brand in their UK index.

We have been recognised as by Stonewall as a Top Global Employer. Recognising that we are a leading employer in advancing LGBT inclusion. Pinsent Masons is recognised as a Top Ten Employer for Working Families in 2023 for the seventh consecutive year. We are accredited as a Disability Confident Employer by the Department for Work & Pensions and we were the first law firm to sign up the global Valuable 500.

Please click here to view full list of our global awards and nominations an inclusive employer we are willing to consider any flexible working requests.

Should you require further details please contact our inhouse Lateral Recruitment Advisor Johenn Choi who can discuss the role and requirements.

Contact details: