Partner Recruitment Coordinator

The Department

The Regional (UK, Ireland & Middle East) Recruitment function consists of Early Careers, Experienced Hires, and Partner Hiring teams that together support Dentons’ strategic direction and growth through the attraction and hiring of high-quality talent. The Partner Hiring team focuses on identifying and recruiting our future leaders, aligning its priorities with the firm’s five-year strategy. You’ll be joining a collaborative, forward-thinking team helping to shape the future success and culture of the firm as we hire the next generation of senior lawyers and business leaders across the region. The team’s approach is grounded in transparency, innovation, equality and respect, ensuring an efficient, engaging, and inclusive hiring process that reflects Dentons’ values and ambition.

The Role

The Partner Hiring team consists of a Senior Manager, a Manager, an Advisor, and a Coordinator. We're seeking maternity cover until May 2027. As the Partner Hiring Coordinator, you’ll play a critical role in keeping the entire recruitment process moving - anticipating what needs to happen next, maintaining accountability across the team, and ensuring that nothing slips through the cracks. You’ll work closely with senior stakeholders across the firm, including Divisional Leads, Practice Management, Finance, IT, and Compliance, supporting every stage of the partner recruitment and onboarding process. No two partner hires are the same, so being able to adapt to changing requirements, exercise sound judgement, communicate effectively and identify practical solutions to challenges are key. Alongside managing day-to-day recruitment activity, you’ll also contribute to continuous improvement projects — helping to streamline processes, enhance onboarding, and improve the overall candidate and stakeholder experience. This role offers a unique opportunity to develop a deep understanding of the legal market and the partner hiring process, while working in a team that values openness, collaboration, and fun.

Responsibilities / What you are responsible for

• Manage the Partner Hiring process - effectively coordinate meetings, interviews, documentation, and stakeholder communication, ensuring all actions are tracked, deadlines are met, and processes stay on course.
• Maintain accountability across the team, prompting next steps and ensuring everyone knows what needs to happen when.
• Provide seamless administrative and logistical support, including interview scheduling, room bookings, and offer documentation.
• Manage onboarding logistics, ensuring a smooth and compliant transition for new partners - from offer acceptance to their first day - while managing all regulatory and LLP-related requirements.
• Collaborate across teams such as Finance, Compliance, HR, IT, and Clients & Markets to ensure all relevant checks, approvals, and systems are in place ahead of each partner’s arrival.
• Act as the central point of communication between candidates, agencies, and internal stakeholders, maintaining a professional, transparent, and responsive experience for all parties.
• Plan and prioritise competing activities effectively, adapting to evolving priorities while maintaining high standards of quality and service delivery.
• Adjust approach to evolving priorities, identifying opportunities to enhance efficiency, consistency and stakeholder experience through smarter ways of working.
• Contribute to process improvement projects, identifying opportunities to enhance efficiency, consistency, and inclusivity across the UKIME region.
• Promote diversity, equity, and inclusion, ensuring all recruitment practices are fair, transparent, and aligned with the firm’s values.
• Manage documentation and reporting, maintaining accurate trackers, templates, and records to support reporting, governance, and compliance requirements.
• Communicate effectively with senior stakeholders, tailoring your style to suit different preferences (e.g., Teams updates, emails, or brief check-ins).
• Build and maintain effective working relationships across the business, fostering collaboration, trust and shared accountability.
• Collaborate as part of a close-knit team, contributing ideas, feedback, and suggestions to improve how we work and support the firm’s strategic goals.
• Develop and maintain knowledge of the legal market, partner hiring landscape and firm priorities to support informed decision‑making and effective hiring outcomes.

Capability, Experience and Qualifications / What You'll Bring

• Experience supporting recruitment, HR coordination or complex administrative processes within a professional services environment.
• Solid organisational, planning and prioritisation skills, with the ability to manage multiple activities accurately and to deadline.
• Good written and verbal communication skills, with confidence engaging candidates, agencies and internal stakeholders.
• High attention to detail, with experience maintaining records, trackers, documentation and reporting materials.
• Ability to handle sensitive and confidential information appropriately.
• Interest in recruitment, people processes and the legal or professional services market.
• Comfortable using Microsoft Office and working with recruitment, HR or workflow systems.

Behavioural Expectations / How you do it

• Plans and prioritises recruitment activity to keep actions, deadlines and follow-ups on track.
• Anticipates next steps and prompts timely action to maintain momentum.
• Uses sound judgement within remit, escalating risks or sensitive matters appropriately.

Expertise

• Coordinates partner recruitment and onboarding activity in a structured and consistent way.
• Maintains accurate trackers, records and documentation to support reporting, governance and compliance.
• Identifies practical improvements to templates, processes and ways of working.
• Builds constructive relationships with candidates, agencies and internal stakeholders through clear, responsive communication.
• Works effectively across HR, Finance, Compliance, IT, Clients & Markets and other teams to support timely delivery.
• Shares updates, raises issues early and contributes to positive team outcomes.
• Supports an efficient, inclusive and well‑organised recruitment process that reflects Dentons’ values and standards.
• Helps deliver a smooth onboarding experience by coordinating key actions, approvals and communications.
• Maintains awareness of firm priorities and the partner hiring process to support informed and timely delivery.

Firm Profile

Across more than 80 countries, Dentons helps you grow, protect, operate and finance your organisation by providing uniquely global and deeply local legal solutions. Polycentric, purpose-driven and committed to inclusion, diversity, equity and sustainability, we focus on what matters most to you.

Inclusion and Diversity

We are committed to building an inclusive culture here at Dentons where our people can thrive, regardless of their background or circumstance. As well as being the right thing to do, it makes good business sense too. A richness of backgrounds, experiences and perspectives helps us best serve our clients and the communities in which we operate.

Dentons is committed to providing equal opportunities for all. We welcome applications from everyone including of any age, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, nationality, neurotype, disability, or with parental or caring responsibilities. We are also “Happy to Talk Flexible Working” and welcome conversations about flexible working arrangements. Dentons is a Disability Confident employer. Candidates with a disability may choose to apply under the Disability Confident Scheme. We will offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role. During the application process, all applicants have the opportunity to tell us about any adjustments or support they require so they are able to perform at their best. Any information you share with us during the application process is treated in confidence.