Responsible Business Adviser in Westminster

The Responsible Business Adviser supports the firm's responsible business strategy across inclusion, diversity, social impact, sustainability, and wellbeing. The role contributes to delivering programmes that strengthen our culture, engage our people, and enhance the firm's reputation with clients and the community. The post holder provides coordination, analysis, stakeholder support, and project delivery across key Responsible Business workstreams. While the role will report directly to the Diversity and Inclusion and Social Impact Manager for day-to-day line management, the post holder will have the opportunity to work with managers across all workstreams.

This role will support the delivery of the Responsible Business Strategy and Action Plan, with a particular focus on communications and engagement, reporting, and managing partnerships and programmes across our sustainability, social impact and inclusion work.

• Responsible Business communications: Support the development of podcasts, videos, and written stories that bring our Responsible Business work to life. Draft internal and external communications, including updating our Responsible Business website pages.
• Reporting: Lead on client pitch and reporting requests, working with managers across the team to produce responses and pitch content. Manage the development of the firm's annual Responsible Business report. Support on preparation, coordination, and delivery of sustainability and diversity reporting and disclosure requirements.
• Plan and organise Responsible Business events: Coordinate in-person activities, webinars, awareness campaigns and training workshops that drive strong engagement and impact.
• Manage memberships and social impact partnerships: Day-to-day management of social impact partnerships, including engaging and managing volunteers, facilitating programmes such as student mentoring, work experience and reading programmes with our partner schools, and coordinate all fundraising and volunteering for our Charity of the Year partnership.
• Coordination of Committee meetings: Planning, scheduling and minute taking for committees, including the firm's Charity Committee, who oversee pro bono, social impact and all charitable donations.
• Budget monitoring and administration: Support the team to manage budgets, including ensuring all payments are processed accurately and efficiently.

The following skills are essential for performing the role:

• A passion for responsible business and an ability to articulate your personal "why", explaining what motivates you to work in this area. Technical expertise is not essential at this stage; we'll support your learning.
• Excellent organisation, with the ability to manage multiple competing demands, and working with a range of stakeholders.
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills.
• Research and analytical skills, including the ability to analyse and interpret data.
• Strong interpersonal skills and stakeholder management.
• Good end-to-end project management and coordination skills.
• Embraces a variety of digital tools and technologies to drive team efficiency.
• Demonstrates discretion, timely escalation of issues, and the confidence to challenge processes that may benefit from improvement.
• Experience of running events and engagement programmes is not required but would be beneficial.
• Takes accountability for own work, comfortable working independently and in cross-functional teams.

Stephenson Harwood is an international law firm, and we're committed to creating 'positive partnerships' with our clients. We represent listed and private companies, institutions and individuals, building lasting relationships to help them succeed in a complex and ever-changing world.

We understand the power of diversity in delivering that high calibre advice to our clients. We want to attract diverse talent and we particularly encourage applications from underrepresented demographics.

We will offer you a place where you can be yourself and where there are no limits on what you can achieve. With us, you can take ownership of your career and have honest conversations throughout. You would join an ambitious firm with a clear strategy for profitable growth where you can gain early responsibility and early involvement in growing the business. Here you can expect a competitive and fair reward as well as recognition based on all round performance.

A competitive salary and a host of family friendly policies, life assurance, private health and dental care for you and your family, a range of flexible benefits including gym discount and retail vouchers, tech, cycle and electric car schemes. We support the causes you care about, by giving you one day per year off to volunteer with any charity that you are involved with outside of work. A wellbeing strategy that focuses on preventative measures to maintain overall health, and tools and support for when our people experience physical or mental difficulties.

Most of our roles are hybrid, meaning that colleagues benefit from working in our office and remotely. We are happy to discuss this and other flexible working arrangements with you as part of the application and interview process.

We are an equal opportunity organisation, committed to having a diverse workforce. We do not discriminate on the basis of age, sex, race, disability, sexual orientation, culture, or any other protected characteristics. We aim to create a culture where everyone can be themselves and is valued for their strengths and unique perspectives.