Community Investment and Fundraising Coordinator - 12 Months Fixed Term Contract

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Job Title

Community Investment and Fundraising Coordinator - 12 Months Fixed Term Contract

Office Location

London

Department

Responsible Business

Delivering on our commitments to Responsible Business is one of our firm’s five strategic priorities, and our dedication to supporting others is a longstanding value of the firm.

Hogan Lovells Cadwalader expects all members of the firm to dedicate at least 25 hours a year to firm-approved Responsible Business activity each calendar year. Responsible Business hours include time spent on approved firm activity across the various strands of our program, as follows: Pro bono legal advice; Community investment; Fundraising partnerships; Inclusion; Wellbeing; and Sustainability.

Working Hours

35 hours per week, 9:30am to 5:30pm but additional hours may be required.  We are happy to consider agile and flexible working patterns. Our approach to hybrid working allows for up to 40% of time working from home and 60% working in the office, please contact a member of the recruitment team to discuss further.

Role Overview

The Coordinator will support the Senior Manager and the Global Head of Community Investment, assisting with the day-to-day running of community investment and fundraising charity partnership initiatives in the UK including facilitating relevant internal and external communications. Recently this has included the management of our flagship ‘Debate It!’ education programme and delivering fundraising and engagement activities with our dedicated UK charity partner, ‘The Rivers Trust’.

Key Responsibilities

Specific duties or responsibilities may be reviewed from time to time to reflect changes in personnel and management structure, staff location or services. All members of the firm participate in our Responsible Business program.

• Preparing internal communications, including posters, presentations and newsletters.

• Running UK fundraising events and helping to facilitate and support volunteering opportunities including larger initiatives like our “Debate It!” programme or “Legally Ballroom”.

• Collecting impact data and providing information for our reporting on UK community investment and fundraising activities.

• Recruiting, coordinating and liaising with volunteers.

• Liaising with community partners and stakeholders.

• Minute taking in meetings.

Skills & Experience

Essential

• Recruiting, motivating and managing volunteers.

• Running fundraising events.

• Communications experience.

Preferred

• Experience working in corporate responsibility or mission led businesses.

• Experience with databases use and management.

• Microsoft Project skills: working efficiently in Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Outlook.

General Attributes

• Ability to work effectively in a team environment.

• Strong interpersonal skills and stakeholder engagement skills.

• Good organisational skills and ability to multitask.

• Good written and spoken communication skills.

• Flexible and problem solving approach.

Equal Opportunities Employment & Agile Working Statement

It is the policy of Hogan Lovells Cadwalader to provide equal opportunities for all employees in relation to recruitment, training and promotion.  Decisions in these areas will be made only by reference to the requirements of the job and shall not be influenced by any consideration of racial or ethnic origin, religion, sex, gender and gender identity, age, sexual orientation, marital and civil partnership status, pregnancy or disability.

Our goal is to embed flexibility across our business by giving everyone the opportunity to work in an agile way, whether as a regular pattern or on an ad hoc basis, and we will be happy to discuss this further.