Expertise and Legal Learning Coordinator EMEA

Ashurst Perkins Coie; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 52,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work options

Health & wellbeing benefits

Career advancement

Job summary

Ashurst Perkins Coie is recruiting an experienced coordinator to support legal learning and expertise community coordination in the EMEA region. This hands-on role combines program logistics, stakeholder engagement, data management and process improvement.

You will be central to supporting experts, administrators, and senior leaders across EMEA, ensuring learning programs run smoothly. You will join a global community of expertise lawyers and K&E specialists, reporting to the Director of

Qualifications

• Experience coordinating training, events or programs in a law firm or professional services environment.
• Strong written and verbal communication with stakeholders at all levels.
• Excellent organizational skills; can manage multiple workstreams and deadlines.
• Proactive with a drive to improve processes and adapt in fast-changing environments.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate two key areas of the K&E strategy: expert lawyer coordination and cross-practice resourcing.
• Deliver cross-practice legal learning programs and hybrid/virtual sessions across EMEA.

Skills

Coordination

Stakeholder engagement

Event coordination

Communication

Job description

Description

At Ashurst Perkins Coie, we're helping shape the future economy. With a global team of more than 3,500 legal professionals across 52 offices, we partner with leading organisations to solve complex challenges across a diverse range of industries, with a distinct strength in technology, energy & infrastructure, and financial services. Our people work on market-leading matters that drive innovation, growth, and transformation around the world.For Ashurst Perkins Coie, innovation is our tradition.

Description

At Ashurst Perkins Coie, we're helping shape the future economy. With a global team of more than 3,500 legal professionals across 52 offices, we partner with leading organisations to solve complex challenges across a diverse range of industries, with a distinct strength in technology, energy & infrastructure, and financial services. Our people work on market-leading matters that drive innovation, growth, and transformation around the world.For Ashurst Perkins Coie, innovation is our tradition.

What makes Ashurst Perkins Coie a great place to work?

• Flexible work options - part-time, working from home and additional leave
• Health and wellbeing benefits, gym membership, and discounted corporate health plans
• Career advancement - client secondment opportunities, global opportunities, and award-winning Learning & Development programs

The Opportunity:

We are recruiting an experienced coordinator to support legal learning and expertise community coordination in the EMEA region.

This hands-on role combines program logistics, stakeholder engagement, data management and process improvement. You will act as the central support point for expertise lawyers, practice-based administrators and senior leaders across EMEA, ensuring legal learning programs and expertise community activities run smoothly.

You will be joining an expert, dynamic, friendly and well-supported global community of expertise lawyers and other Knowledge & Expertise (K&E) specialists.

(K&E) is a highly regarded, global function encompassing expertise and legal learning, research and business intelligence, and knowledge management.

Key Responsibilities

You will help deliver two key areas of K&E's strategy:

• Strengthening how we coordinate expert lawyers and administer expertise across Ashurst Perkins Coie. You will support cross-practice initiatives and expertise planning, drive consistency in resourcing, and coordinate support for practice-based Expertise Lawyers and their administrators.
• Delivering a cross-practice legal learning program to uplift the capabilities of Ashurst Perkins Coie lawyers across EMEA. You will coordinate hybrid and virtual learning sessions with practice-based partners, legal staff, expertise lawyers and other business services groups (including Learning & Organizational Development and Business Development teams). The role may extend to supporting client training programs.

You will report to the Director of Expertise and Legal Learning, EMEA. This is a full-time, permanent position, based in our London office with hybrid working.

More information can be found in the job description attached to the role on our careers site Careers | Ashurst Perkins Coie

The successful candidate will have:

• Relevant experience coordinating training, events or programs in a law firm or professional services environment.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with a demonstrated ability to engage stakeholders at all levels.
• Excellent organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple workstreams and competing deadlines.
• Proactive, with a "can do" attitude and a drive to improve processes.
• Flexible and adaptable in a fast-changing environment.