Community Liaison (Hybrid)

Hiring & Empowering Solutions; Palo Alto (CA); Hybrid; USD 63,000 - 77,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/dental/vision insurance

401(k) with 3% company match

Quarterly profit-sharing

Professional coaching and development

Job summary

Hiring & Empowering Solutions seeks a Community Liaison in the Palo Alto area to build and sustain relationships with professionals, organizations, and community partners across California. The role focuses on networking, event coordination, and connecting families with resources, while representing the firm with warmth and professionalism.

The ideal candidate thrives on meeting new people, staying organized, and proactively managing partnerships.

Qualifications

• Previous professional experience in community relations or related field.
• Legal experience is nice-to-have but not required.
• Ability to build authentic, long-term relationships and represent the organization professionally and with care.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain relationships with professionals, organizations, and community partners.
• Coordinate networking meetings, lunches, presentations, webinars, seminars, and events.
• Attend professional and community events representing the organization with warmth and professionalism.
• Maintain consistent communication and follow-up with referral partners.
• Identify partnership, sponsorship, and community engagement opportunities.
• Coordinate newsletters, thank-you cards, gifts, and other relationship-building initiatives.
• Maintain accurate contact and relationship records and track outreach, events, referrals, and follow-ups.
• Collaborate with internal team to educate the community and connect families with resources.

Skills

Relationship building

Communication

Organization

Independent work

Event coordination

Job description

COMMUNITY LIAISON

Build Relationships. Strengthen Communities. Make a Meaningful Impact.

Palo Alto, CA | Hybrid | $70,000 + Benefits

A growing California estate planning and special needs law practice is looking for a Community Liaison to build meaningful relationships with professionals, organizations, and community partners throughout California.

This is a relationship-focused role for someone who genuinely enjoys meeting people, building trust, staying organized, and connecting people with valuable resources. You’ll represent the organization in the community, develop referral relationships, coordinate educational events, and help strengthen our network of trusted professionals and vendors.

What You’ll Do

• Build and maintain relationships with financial advisors, CPAs, healthcare professionals, social workers, nonprofits, therapists, fiduciaries, and other community professionals.
• Coordinate networking meetings, lunches, presentations, webinars, seminars, and community events.
• Attend professional and community networking events and represent the organization with warmth and professionalism.
• Maintain consistent communication and follow-up with referral partners.
• Identify new partnership, sponsorship, and community engagement opportunities.
• Coordinate newsletters, referral thank-you cards, gifts, and other relationship-building initiatives.
• Maintain accurate contact and relationship records and track outreach, events, referrals, and follow-ups.
• Work with the internal team to identify opportunities to educate the community and connect families with helpful resources.

What We’re Looking For

The ideal candidate is a natural relationship builder who is:

• Warm, personable, and comfortable meeting new people.
• Highly organized and dependable.
• A strong communicator and active listener.
• Proactive with follow-up and relationship management.
• Comfortable representing an organization at professional and community events.
• Able to work independently while collaborating effectively with a remote team.
• Genuinely interested in helping families and connecting people with meaningful resources.

Previous professional experience is required, preferably in community relations, business development, networking, outreach, partnerships, client relations, marketing, or a similar relationship-focused role.

Legal experience is nice-to-have but not required. What matters most is your ability to build authentic, long-term relationships and represent the organization with professionalism and care.

Position Details

Location: Palo Alto, CA area

Schedule: Hybrid | Monday–Friday, 9:00 AM–5:00 PM PST

Weekend: Some weekend events may be required

Salary: $70,000 annually

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Long-term disability (LTD) coverage
• 401(k) with 3% company match
• 13 paid holidays
• 10 vacation days
• 5 sick days
• ½ day for voting
• All other legally required leaves
• Quarterly profit-sharing
• Professional coaching and development courses

Why Join Us?

This is a place where talented people can do meaningful work, continue learning, be part of a great team, and still have a life outside of work.

We value warmth, expertise, teamwork, long-term relationships, and doing things the right way. We believe strong professional relationships are built through trust, consistency, and genuine value—not transactional networking.

Location Requirement

Candidates must be local to the Palo Alto, California area and comfortable attending in-person networking events, meetings, presentations, lunches, and community activities.

We understand the complexities of navigating new opportunities in the legal space. You can trust that all employment inquiries are kept strictly confidential.

Job Type: Full-time