Senior Coordinator: Student Recruitment

Overview

Mayer Brown is an international law firm positioned to represent the world’s major corporations, funds, and financial institutions in their most important and complex transactions and disputes. We are recognized by our clients as strategic partners with deep commercial instincts and a commitment to creatively anticipating their needs and delivering excellence in everything we do.

We are a collegial, collaborative firm where highly motivated individuals with an unwavering commitment to excellence receive the opportunity, support, and development they need to grow, thrive, and realize their greatest potential all while supporting the Firm’s client service principles of excellence, strategic partnership, commercial instinct, integrated strengths, innovation, and collaboration across our international firm.

If you thrive in a collaborative environment that values exceptional client service, initiative, professionalism, responsiveness, and adaptability, we invite you to consider joining our Human Resources department in our New York office as a Senior Coordinator:
Student Recruitment.

As the Senior Coordinator:
Student Recruitment, you will be responsible for coordinating the recruitment for law students, entry level associates, and judicial law clerks for the New York office. You will collaborate closely with the student recruitment manager, the US student recruitment team, office hiring partners, local recruitment committees, and other stakeholders on coordinating and executing the best-in-class student recruitment and summer associate programs while ensuring we continue to attract strong candidates and enhance our reputation as a top-tier law firm on-campus.

In addition, you will coordinate the local summer associate program and provide additional support for US student recruitment initiatives and projects.

Essential Functions:

• Coordinates law student recruitment logistics, including interfacing and communicating with law students, coordinating and attending campus engagement programs and events, tracking candidate pipeline and engagement efforts, reviewing resumes, scheduling interviews, tracking candidate evaluations and statistics, preparing candidate information packets and offers, and participating in hiring committee meetings. Coordinates materials for local hiring committee meetings.
• Facilitates and coordinates aspects of the office’s Summer Associate Program by overseeing orientation, attending/facilitating trainings and events, and supporting the work assignment and performance feedback processes
• Facilitates the selection of venues and handling of vendor contracts within budget parameters
• Coordinates with US counterparts and leaders on national programming and initiatives where needed
• Enhances relationships with law schools including in the New York-area by coordinating sponsor ships, events and other initiatives to increase the Firm’s visibility on-campus. Assesses progress and provides creative and innovative solutions
• Organizes data compilation and report generation as requested
• Coordinates interviewer materials and collateral promotional materials such as advertisements, brochures and gifts; updates job postings where appropriate
• Coordinates the hiring of 3L students and post-clerkship hires, if needed
• Demonstrates proficiency with recruiting databases and systems. Ensures timely and accurate data entry in recruiting systems for applicant tracking of student hires
• Maintains candidate and summer associate files, documents, reports, and statistics
• Performs other duties as assigned or required to meet Firm hiring goals and objectives

Education/Training/

Certifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field. An…