Personal Assistant 12 Month FTC
Personal Assistant 12 Month FTC
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Job Description
The Role
The Personal Assistant provides specialised support to a Knowledge Lawyer who has a visual impairment based in our Canary Wharf office.
Who you will work with
Knowledge Lawyer in our TechDigital team.
What you will be responsible for
The role holder will be supporting the Knowledge Lawyer with personal duties as well as providing legal support work. The Personal Assistant will work collaboratively with the TechDigital groups Practice Assistants (PAs) and Junior Practice Assistants (JPAs) to ensure full support is provided for the Knowledge Lawyer during working hours.
What you will do
Personal Assistant duties:
- The Knowledge Lawyer may choose to work from the office 4 days per week and the role holder will be expected to be in the office on the same days.
- Provide the knowledge lawyer with the necessary sighted support for example describing visual aspects of documents keeping the lawyer informed of the colleagues in presence in the office or at events etc.
- Provide personal assistance throughout the day which will include escorting the Knowledge Lawyer to internal and external meetings lunches and personal breaks.
- Attending networking events client lunches and training courses.
- Accompanying the Knowledge Lawyer during overseas business trips and client events.
- Providing ad hoc personal and professional administrative support.
- You may be required to work beyond your standard working hours. This is likely to be once a month.
Legal based duties:
- Facilitate communication by reading written materials and converting them to an accessible format.
- Guide read research and communicate sightbased information to the Knowledge Lawyer as required.
- Provie assistance with researching points of law and any unfamiliar issues using internal and external resources.
- Proofreading of documents and assistance with formatting as required. Delegating work to the Document Production Unit and other Business Support Services as appropriate.
- Notetaking at virtual and in person meetings.
- Assistance with producing briefings and presentation slides as required.
- Coordination of team training sessions including researching and managing administration for calendar of events including invites and accompanying materials.
- Provide the outlined above support on other premises e.g. should the Knowledge Lawyer be seconded to one of Clifford Chances client offices.
Qualifications :
Your experience
Skills and experience required:
- Experience of providing first class 1:1 PA support.
- Ideally experience of working within a professional firm.
- Preferably some legal knowledge or a keenness to understand legal terminologies.
- Ability to quickly look up and find your way around legal text and information.
- Excellent IT skills including all Microsoft packages exposure to legal technologies would be preferable.
- Strong communication and networking skills.
- Highly personable and proactive.
- Adaptable and able to handle multiple tasks efficiently.
- Strong problemsolving skills and a proactive attitude.
- Exceptional organisational skills with excellent attention to detail.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the needs of visually impaired individuals.
How we will support you
From your first day with us you will have varied opportunities to continuously grow and development your skills and knowledge. From formal training informal coaching and mentoring through to skillsbased and technical training and on the job learning.
Additional Information :
Hybrid Working
Due to the nature of this role office attendance is required for more than our balanced hybrid working policy. The expectation for this role is to be working in the office for a minimum of 80% of your time.
What we offer including our broad range of benefits and working environment
When you join Clifford Chance you will have access to a broad range of benefits to support you across many aspects of your personal and professional life including financial wellbeing lifestyle and family friendly benefits. For more information on what we offer specifically in the UK please visit our What We Offer page on our career site.
Equal opportunities statement
At Clifford Chance we understand that our true asset is our people. Inclusion is good for our team and their families our firm and society.
We are committed to treating all employees and applicants fairly and equally regardless of their gender gender identity and expression marital or civil partnership status race colour national or ethnic origin social or economic background disability religious belief sexual orientation or age. This applies to recruitment and selection terms and conditions of employment including pay promotion training transfer and every other aspect of employment.
We have a variety of flourishing employee networks. These networks are a place for colleagues to share experiences and advocate for change wherever they see an opportunity for improvement.
Our goal is to deliver an equality of opportunity an equality of aspiration and an equality of experience to everyone who works in our firm.
Find out more about our inclusive culture here.
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Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Contract
Employment Type
Contract
