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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.\nWe are a collegial and collaborative firm where highly motivated individuals with an unwavering commitment to excellence receive the opportunity, support, and development they need to grow, thrive, and realise 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.\nIf you enjoy working with team members whose defining characteristics are exceptional client service, initiative, professionalism, responsiveness, and adaptability, you may be the person we are seeking to join our Learning and Development department in our London office as a Senior Coordinator: Learning and Development Professional Skills.\nThe Department\nLearning and Development\nThe Learning and Development team are responsible for legal, compliance and professional skills training.\nPurpose of the role\nThis role offers the opportunity to be fully involved in a wide range of tasks, from providing administrative support, booking external courses through to scheduling training programmes and liaising with a variety of different training contacts, both internal and external.\nHours:\nStandard hours are 9:30am to 5:30pm with flexibility in accordance with the needs of the business.\nOur current working from home policy allows for two days working from home, subject to business need. This policy is subject to change and does not form part of contractual terms.\nResponsibilities\nProviding administrative support in the organisation of training for all staff and partners and ensuring the smooth running of courses/events on the day. This includes compiling the intended audience list, booking rooms, sending calendar invitations, monitoring and chasing responses, preparing attendance registers and evaluation sheets, printing materials if required and liaising with other support functions (e.g. reception, catering and audio visual).\nPreparing and sending out electronic and hardcopy evaluation requests, collating feedback and passing on comments to speakers in a timely fashion.\nSourcing, researching and booking external venues for courses. Organising bookings and payment for external skills training courses and sending confirmation emails/invitations.\nLiaising with external training institutions and providers regarding training courses, curriculum information and schedules.\nBeing the point of contact for and co-ordinating well-being events including the Firm's cancer awareness workshops, resilience and mental health first aid sessions. \nCo-ordinating, organising and helping create the materials for Development Centres and Away Days. \nProviding administrative support for Trainee Solicitor programmes: scheduling their training and organising their 5-day induction, including close liaison with internal speakers and external consultants; and authorising holiday requests.\nProviding administrative support for the NQ Associate induction programme twice a year: scheduling their training to avoid qualification leave, close liaison with internal speakers and external consultants, updating all programme spreadsheets and development records, and ensuring the accuracy of these.\nTaking responsibility for the organising and running of specific firm-wide courses, such as the accounts induction.\nUpdating training documents and providing induction packs for new Trainees and Solicitor Apprentices.\nWorking closely with the team in scheduling the annual professional skills training programme involving both internal and external speakers.\nTracking training attendance by sending out electronic or hardcopy attendance registers, maintaining tracking spreadsheets by location and/or department and logging attendance/CPD hours in our learning management system (Litera CE Manager).\nMaintaining records for various types of information including coaching spend, professional qualifications, L&D events, budget spend, documents and emails (including saving materials onto the Learning Management System and iManage).\nEnsuring all invoices are submitted, authorised and paid on time; maintaining and reviewing the professional skills budget spreadsheet working closely with the Head of Learning & Development.\nEnsuring all procurement documents are in place for all external training providers.\nWorking closely with the team to advertise and promote training through the use of internal communication channels. \nOrganising weekly team meetings and providing the agenda.\nTaking responsibility daily for responding to telephone or email queries and escalating these as appropriate.\nBeing a point of contact for any training related queries from the business.\nProviding HR with training information for individuals who are leaving the firm.\nProof-reading documents and assisting with the drafting of the Friday round-up email and professional skills calendar invitations. \nWorking on ad hoc learning and development projects as and when required.\nThe Firm may modify and amend this job description at any time at its sole discretion. Nothing herein creates a contract of employment.\nQualifications, Experience and Personal Attributes\nEducated to at least ‘A’ Level standard or equivalent\nExperience, skills and personal attributes:\nPrevious L&D and/or HR experience within a legal or professional skills environment.\nExcellent organisational skills. \nStrong written communication skills, maintaining a professional style of writing. \nStrong oral communication skills, feeling confident in face-to-face conversations and picking up the phone.\nStrong ability to pay attention to detail, check own work and maintain a high level of accuracy.\nPersonable, reliable and able to work as part of a team. Strong relationship-building skills. \nAbility to be proactive and carry out duties with minimum supervision but also able to participate fully within a cohesive and supportive team environment.\nAbility to multi-task and effectively engage with several projects/pieces of work at a time.\nEnthusiastic and energetic approach. 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For example, there may be a need from time to time to arrive early to set up training rooms and/or leave late to tidy up after an event.\nAt Mayer Brown, we are committed to creating an inclusive work environment that offers our people the opportunity and support they need to succeed.\nOur culture promotes mutual respect, acceptance, cooperation and productivity among people from all backgrounds and values different perspectives and ideas.\nOne of our core values at Mayer Brown is to promote inclusion at all levels within the business which is actively supported by our Employee Resource Groups - LGBTQIA+, Fusion (Race & Ethnicity), Multi-faith, Women, Enable (Disability), Social Inclusion and Opportunities Network and Work and Me (Family).\nWe are happy to discuss any reasonable adjustments that individuals may require throughout the recruitment process and once they have joined the Firm.","description_format":"text","description_chars":7714,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Legal Services"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-29T15:38:58Z"}],"visa":[{"country":"GB","licensed_sponsor":true,"evidence":"Licensed UK visa sponsor (Skilled Worker, Graduate Trainee, Senior or Specialist Worker)","filings_12m":null,"filings_prev_12m":null,"green_card_filings_12m":null,"median_offered_wage_usd":null,"route":"Skilled Worker; Global Business Mobility: Graduate Trainee; Global Business Mobility: Senior or Specialist Worker","cap_exempt":false,"checked_at":"2026-10-22T06:27:10+00:00","sources":["UK Home Office: register of licensed sponsors (workers)"],"filings_for_role_12m":0}],"liveness":{"score":44,"band":"fade","label":"Fading","p_open":1,"p_active":0.796,"p_room":0.55,"age_days":22,"expected_fill_days":17,"reasons":["conf:0","velocity","win:tail"],"computed_at":"2026-10-22T06:10:10Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/mayer-brown-senior-coordinator-learning-development-professional-skills","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/mayer-brown-senior-coordinator-learning-development-professional-skills.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-22T09:27:27Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":6266,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-23T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":14376},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=14376"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fmayer-brown-senior-coordinator-learning-development-professional-skills"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fmayer-brown-senior-coordinator-learning-development-professional-skills"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fmayer-brown-senior-coordinator-learning-development-professional-skills"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/mayer-brown-senior-coordinator-learning-development-professional-skills\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fmayer-brown-senior-coordinator-learning-development-professional-skills"}]}