| Greenberg Traurig, a global law firm, currently has an excellent full-time employment opportunity for a Professional Development Manager to join the Professional Development Department in our Chicago office. We offer competitive compensation and an excellent benefits package.
Position Summary:
The Professional Development Manager will work alongside the firm’s Director of Professional Development and other Managers on the PD and Learning and Development teams to develop and implement innovative programs to onboard, train, mentor, develop, engage, and retain the firm’s attorneys with a focus on associates and professional development initiatives.
Duties & Responsibilities:
Firmwide Projects PD Managers will be assigned firmwide projects to lead or to contribute to. Examples of those projects are Associate Retreats, Associate Review Process, Firmwide First Year Associate Orientation and the Mentor program. The Director of PD will assign those projects as they arise. Regional and Global Practice Group Responsibilities PD Managers will manage and lead firmwide projects, regional/office responsibilities and global practice group responsibilities. Those responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following: Regional PD Managers will be assigned an office, offices or region to manage and oversee the associates in those offices. The following are the responsibilities: - Learn about the office/region. Develop a deep understanding of the office.
- Meet, build relationships and communicate with Managing Shareholders and Career Development Liasions (CDLs) on a regular basis in each office
- Clarify CDL role and expectations and assist with programming and mentor matches as appropriate
- Understand the associate population in your office/region. Oversee the engagement of associates in each office/region.
- Orient and onboard all new associates
- Welcome all new shareholders to the office/region and provide PD department highlights
- Provide integration opportunities for new associates including introductions to others
- Meet, build relationships, communicate, and collaborate with BDs, HR Managers and Marketing staff
- Implement the revised mentor program and ensure all associates in your office/region have mentors
- Travel to the offices on a regular basis or as programming warrants
- Provide programming in each office
- Reinforce or advertise webinar programming to associates and encourage attendance
- Assist with utilization of associates
- Implement firmwide programs on a local level
- Assist with the associate evaluation process and associate business development plans
- Communicate to associates and offer to meet with them to develop the business development plan
- Track and provide reports on regions PD efforts and training metrics to key leadership and management
Global Practice Group Training and Programming - Meet with Global Practice Group Heads (PGH) at the beginning of each year to plan professional development programs for the year
- Work with the shareholders in charge of practice group training to develop training programs and identify effective teaching methods
- Oversee course catalogs, resources and competencies related to the practice group
- Evaluate programming and recommend content and process improvements
- Track and provide reports on Practice Group PD efforts and training metrics to Global PGH
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