Development Manager

Overview

What is LOD?

LOD is the leading flexible legal service provider across seven locations in the UK, South Africa, US, Asia and Australia. We are both changing the way in which clients buy legal services and providing talented lawyers with a new way of working. We’ve achieved some of the fastest growth in our sector by creating and leading a new professional service category.

That growth continues as we launch new services, responding to the way our lawyers want to work and clients want to engage them. This role offers an opportunity to be part of this story.

LOD has caught the imagination of the changing legal marketplace for ‘new law’ services. We now have a team of around 600 lawyers and consultants of the highest quality working with an inspiring client list from globally recognised multinationals to start-ups.

Work at LOD:

LOD has the spirit and excitement of an entrepreneurial growth business. LOD’s HQ team is at the core - they are the people that look after our lawyers and clients work to build the LOD business. So, working in the HQ team offers you a chance to shape how things are changing in the legal industry. What you do will have a direct effect on how our lawyers and clients work with us.

Ideals at LOD:

We see daily that giving people the chance to work differently can have a positive impact on the world. We run LOD for our lawyers and for our clients with that in mind. It’s also crucial for our employees in the HQ team - each employee has a chance to truly engage and to make a difference in what they do.

We’re agile, solutions focussed, collaborative and fun.

Role

Summary:

Our People & Development team are a key part of our business in being responsible for looking after our teams of working lawyers, paralegals and non-lawyers whilst they’re representing LOD on assignment with our clients.
You’ll join our People and Development team working to ensure we select, onboard, and retain top quality individuals for a variety of LOD clients. The role will be varied and will cover a range of responsibilities including onboarding, day to day care and development as well as delivering on a talent strategy that fits the South African market and continues to position us an employer of choice against our competitors.

The priority of our People & Development team is to deliver core activities that attract and retain the best talent in a competitive and fast-paced market. Our South African office has been growing since we opened it around two years ago. We have Senior Lawyers on assignment in increasingly complex teams and the support required for this population has evolved in turn.

As such, we’re seeking our first South Africa based People & Development team member to join us, reporting into our UK based People & Development Director to help us to create a sophisticated and agile talent management programme that supports those core activities of attraction and retention whilst creating our own South African community of flex- talent.

Responsibilities

Management of the assignment life cycle from onboarding onwards: You will run the induction process and HR processes for all lawyers, paralegals and support staff starting and leaving assignments based in South Africa. This includes processing engagement letters, assignment notifications and all onboarding items using our automated onboarding platform. You’ll also be responsible for liaising with teams internally at the client to ensure their own
onboarding processes are complete for each of our starters.

Line management and on-assignment care and development: You’ll have line management responsibility for your lawyers and paralegals, in addition to coordinating on the day-to-day care and development of our senior lawyer pool. You’ll go beyond ensuring that they all receive a responsive level of support whilst on assignment to deeply knowing and understanding what makes our people on assignment tick. You’ll be involved in variety of conversations including rate/salary negotiations, contract extensions, redundancies, offboarding and day to day queries plus assisting on any learning and development opportunities you identify.

Prioritising the retention…