Responsible Business Assistant

Greater London, England, United Kingdom

12/24/2024

Kennedys is seeking a Responsible Business Assistant to join our Responsible Business team, which sits within the HR department. The Responsible Business team aims to integrate responsible business into our operations, governance and decision-making. We deliver the firm's social impact, diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I), wellbeing and environment programmes. We are looking for someone who has an interest in developing a career in Responsible Business and can bring excellent organisational skills and attention to detail.

Our responsible business initiatives span the entire firm, which means you will have access to other departments and will be working with colleagues across all our regions globally. The successful RB Assistant will have ample opportunities to be involved a variety of projects, which could include supporting our social impact and DEI teams to deliver events and campaigns, or delivering operational and reporting activities that bring together all responsible business areas.

Team


Kennedys HR team supports the firm around the world with all people related matters.

We are a global team with HR presence in the UK, Dublin and Belfast for EMEA, Singapore, Hong Kong and Australia for APAC, Basking Ridge for US and Miami for LATAM. The areas of HR that we have responsibility for are Responsible Business (including Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DE&I), Social Impact, Wellbeing and Environment), Business Partnering, Learning and Development, Recruitment, Policies and Operations, Reward and HR Systems.

You will be working in a fast-paced, demanding, and global environment as we strive to make a difference for our people, clients and communities where we work.

Key Responsibilities

• Assist in the planning, coordination and execution of global initiatives, communications campaigns, employee network activities and events, which could include employee wellbeing, community volunteering, fundraising, or DE&I activities
• Conduct research to support the global delivery of activities
• Collate data and KPIs that track the firm's progress against its RB goals, and keep up to date records of activities
• Maintain and update the firm's intranet pages, and prepare content to feed into responsible business communications and reporting
• Manage the process to respond to client requests for information, including drafting and collating responses and liaising with teams across the firm to ensure questionnaires are returned in a timely manner.
  
  
  

Required Experience

• Experience of working in an office environment, preferably in a professional services or corporate environment.
• A genuine interest in responsible business.
• Attention to detail and demonstrated project management skills
• Excellent organisational and written communication skills
• A team player who is able to work in a highly collaborative, fast-paced environment with different teams within a global law firm setting
• Ability to deal with highly confidential and sensitive data
• Knowledge of the MS suite of products.
  
  
  

Please let us know if you require any additional support or adjustments to be made in order to submit your application to Kennedys.

*where a level of experience is indicated, this is a guideline only and represents the amount of time we would usually expect a candidate to accumulate the requisite level of experience. This does not preclude applications from candidates with more or less experience.