What are the responsibilities and job description for the Director of Inclusion & Philanthropy position at Eckert Seamans?
Eckert Seamans is a full-service national law firm with a strong reputation and history of success that spans more than 65 years. With approximately 300 lawyers across a network of 15 offices, we provide clients with proactive, solution-oriented business and litigation counsel. We are seeking an experienced Director of Inclusion & Philanthropy for our Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania office.
Primary Responsibilities :
- Manage and implement inclusion growth opportunities for inclusion efforts aligned with firm values
- Lead and implement diversity awareness education programming.
- Lead the Inclusion Counsel and Inclusions Ambassadors
- Collaborate with attorneys and marketing & business development department in responding to client requests for inclusion information; design and develop business reports
- Collaborate with all administrative and legal areas of the firm to integrate various inclusion programming such as pro bono opportunities and inclusion community efforts and pipeline programs
- Provide counsel and guidance relative to inclusion matters
- Monitor inclusion best practices and trends, compile, analyze and maintain internal and external inclusion related data and metrics
- Manage the inclusion budget
- Prepare and manage the annual inclusion report
- Foster an inclusive environment
- Oversee and monitor charitable / philanthropic initiatives and budget in collaboration with the Pro Bono committee, Business Development and the Foundation to align with firm values
- Identify, review, and assess philanthropic partnerships, and nonprofit opportunities to enhance existing efforts and build new ones.
- Collaborate with marketing to integrate PR opportunities into philanthropic initiatives when possible
- Facilitate and track donation and sponsorship requests; provide analysis of value impact
- Provide various aspects of support for charitable events
- Responsible for lateral attorney integration
- Performs other related duties as assigned
Required Skills / Abilities
Education and Experience :
Travel expectation :
Benefits :
Eckert Seamans is committed to providing equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, national origin, age, citizenship, marital status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, disability or any protected military or veteran status.
Eckert Seamans will not consider resumes submitted by external agencies or recruiters unless specifically requested and approved by an HR / Recruiting representative for this position. Prior approval is required even if the agency or recruiter has an agreement in place with Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC. An external agency or recruiter will not be compensated in any way for the submission of a candidate for this position if prior approval is not obtained.
