Project Coordinator

OUR VISION: A society where everyone, regardless of background has equal opportunity to achieve long-term professional and personal success 
OUR MISSION:  To prepare talented students from underserved and underrepresented backgrounds for career success. 
OUR VALUES:  We value team work and champion diversity in all its forms, including diversity of thought. We demonstrate empathy and passion in everything we do. We act with integrity; communicating openly and provide a collaborative and rewarding environment with continuous personal and professional development opportunities for all.

Overview

About SEO London

SEO London is a registered charity in the UK dedicated to offering educational, training, and mentoring support to students and young professionals from low socioeconomic and ethnic minority backgrounds.
Our programmes foster pre-professional development, facilitate career access, and ensure long-term success in various competitive global industries. Since our establishment in 2000, SEO London has played a pivotal role in advancing workplace diversity and inclusion. Numerous alumni, who have benefited from our transformative initiatives, now occupy key positions in leading UK and global corporations and firms. Our collaborations span across industries such as investment banking, asset management, consulting, commercial real estate, technology, alternative investments, insurance, and corporate law. Through partnerships with our sponsor firms, we empower our participants by providing industry insights, employability support, and exclusive access to job and internship opportunities in their chosen sectors. 

Who we support

SEO London supports students and young professionals from ethnic minority groups and low socioeconomic backgrounds. We aim to support those who need us the most.
Ethnic minority groups:  As per UK government guidelines, we use ethnic minority to describe all ethnic groups other than White British or other White backgrounds.
Low Socioeconomic backgrounds: At SEO London, socioeconomic background is assessed as belonging to one or more of the following: household income, free school meal status, refugee or asylum seeker background, experience of local authority care, education and occupation of parents, and history of having lived in social housing.

About the role
 
SEO London Law is a lean and close-knit team in which an exciting opportunity for a Programme Coordinator has opened up. We are seeking someone who is interested in the legal sector, keen to learn and develop. SEO London fosters a friendly and supportive environment characterised by a positive can-do attitude. If all of this resonates with you, we’d love to hear from you!

Role Description

The Programme Coordinator will be tasked with ensuring the smooth running of all student related events. This will include having a full understanding of the SEO-London law programmes; understanding the legal industry that the programme supports; how these fits into the SEO-London organisation and using this knowledge to liaise with students and client/partner firms to run, organise and market successful events. In turn this role will be responsible for using data to run reports to show the impact of each programme.  

Reporting to the Head of Law Programme, you will make recommendations for possible changes and ideas to further support the student experience. The role will also ensure a seamless and professional level of customer care to all students.
 
 Information about SEO London Law Programmes: 

• Corporate Law
• City Solicitors Horizons

Accountabilities
 
DAY TO DAY DELIVERY OF EVENTS 
   

• Responsible for the overall administration of all student events, with specific responsibility to ensure student communication is exceptional. Including event management, student and partner communication and coordination of all the relevant stakeholders, along with posting roles on opportunities pages, promoting events and managing the law commercial awareness newsletter content.  

 
 STUDENT MANAGEMENT & QUERY HANDLING  
   

• Responsible for the relationship management of the students - including the ability to understand needs, resolve issues and anticipating and creating a strong relationship on behalf of SEO-London 
• Responsible for managing student query escalations and to identify where there are opportunities to improve communication, marketing, or the type of events 
• Responsible for managing the programme inbox (where applicable) 
• Responsible for identifying creative and innovative ways to connect, educate and train students
• Provide oversight of cv support, screening, and recruitment preparation  
• Responsible for attending campus events and representing SEO-London professionally with knowledge and enthusiasm 
• Organise mentoring and buddying allocations  

 
 QUALITY ASSURANCE 
   

• Responsible for ensuring that all information relating to the events and student data is managed within the GDPR guidelines and is updated in Salesforce effectively for tracking purposes.  Responsible for running reports to track and monitor events from the CRM.

Required qualifications

• University degree (any discipline)  

Candidates without qualifications will be considered if they have at least 2 years relevant and relatable work experience in a similar role. 

Skills & Experience
 
We are looking for applicants who have at least 1-2 years demonstrable experience in some of the following areas and will be willing to learn and develop others: 
 

• Excellent (business) writing skills 
• Having a keen interest and knowledge about the legal industry with a working knowledge of the student lifecycle (both school and University) 
• Project Management 
• Recruitment 
• Stakeholder management  
• Organisation skills  
• Diversity and inclusion knowledge 
• Database experience and analysing data 
• Strong understanding of employability skills required by students to be job market ready 
• Microsoft (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint) - ability to create & edit documents in word, creating spreadsheets, tables & running and analysing pivot tables in excel; along with the ability to manage outlook and create PowerPoint slideshows.  Ability to use Teams and Zoom to communicate and collaborate. 
• Demonstrable communication and listening skills 
• Ability to collaborate and work as part of a team 
• Empathic approach to working with others

What we offer?

• Salary: £26k to £28k
• Generous Annual Leave: 28 days + Bank Holidays 
• Enhanced Family Friendly Policy
• Flexible working - 2 days in the office 
• Flexible working requests: We are committed to considering all flexible working requests  and our dedication to supporting a healthy work-life balance.
• Benefits: Employee Assistance Programme, Private Health Insurance, Discount to Nuffield Gyms via Private Health Care, Enhanced annual leave, Cycle to work scheme and many more.. 

Closing date for applications

Interviews will start on the week of Wed 13 Jan 2025
Closing date 31st January 2025
If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply as soon as possible.  
We are reviewing applications on a rolling basis.
  
 At SEO London, a Training and Education charity, we firmly believe in providing candidates with the necessary support and guidance for applying for a position with us. Therefore, we recommend including a cover letter when submitting your application.

 Candidates submitting a cover letter are one step further from the applicants who still need to submit one.
 
 Crafting a strong cover letter involves demonstrating how your qualifications align with the job or company you're seeking. It's crucial to review the job description and consider the following questions carefully:
 

• What are the keywords?
• What are the key responsibilities?
• What are the significant skills and experiences you need?

The structure and formatting of the Cover Letter should
 

• Stay within 1-page
• Answer the questions: 'Why the firm?' 'Why the role?' and 'Why you?'

Equal opportunities Statement

As part of its recruitment policy, SEO London intends to ensure that no prospective or actual employee is discriminated against on the basis of race, sex, nationality, marital status, sexual orientation, employment status, class, disability, age, religious belief or political persuasion or is disadvantaged by any condition or requirement which is not demonstrably justifiable. 

Safeguarding

All posts at SEO London involve some degree of responsibility for safeguarding. Successful applicants are required to complete a Disclosure Form from the Disclosure and Barring Service ("DBS") for the position. Failure to declare any convictions (that are not subject to DBS filtering) may disqualify a candidate for appointment or result in summary dismissal if the discrepancy comes to light subsequently.
 

Riht to work

Do you have the right to work in the UK? Unfortunately, at this time, we cannot provide sponsorship or consider overseas applications.

About us

Sponsors for Educational Opportunity, Ltd. (SEO London) is a UK-registered charity delivering superior educational, training, and mentoring support to young people from underrepresented and underserved backgrounds. SEO London programmes focus on pre-professional development (Schools programmes), career access (Careers programmes) and long-term success within elite global industries (Alumni programmes). Launched in 2000, SEO London has subsequently delivered two decades of transformative leadership in the UK workplace diversity and inclusion segment. Thousands of SEO London alumni now work in the UK and global corporates and firms, many holding senior leadership positions.