Awards & Recognition Specialist

ABOUT JENNER & BLOCK

Jenner & Block (www.jenner.com) is a law firm with global reach, with more than 500 lawyers and offices in Chicago, London, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco and Washington, DC. The firm is known for its prominent and successful litigation practice and experience handling sophisticated and high-profile corporate transactions. Firm clients include Fortune 100 companies, large privately held corporations, financial services institutions, emerging companies and venture capital and private equity investors. The American Lawyer magazine has ranked Jenner & Block as the #1 pro bono firm in the United States 10 times, most recently in 2019. The firm has been ranked in the top 10 in this category every year since 1990.

OVERVIEW

The Awards and Recognitions Specialist is responsible for overseeing the firm’s strategic execution of its awards and recognitions program and coordinating content for submissions. Collaborating with Marketing and Client Development colleagues, other firm departments, lawyers, firm leaders, and external resources, they will work to identify and leverage awards to advance the firm’s strategic goals; raise market awareness for the firm, its practices, and lawyers; and elevate the firm’s standing in key legal, business, and trade publications. Reporting to the Director of Strategic Marketing & Communications (SMC), they will collaborate to ensure awards are strategically integrated with the broader marketing and client development efforts.

Join a collaborative and supportive team within a firm that truly lives and breathes its values every day; from proudly counseling high profile clients to providing significant and meaningful pro bono representation to treating every member of the firm as a valued part of the team, Jenner & Block is an extraordinary place to work.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Work with the SMC Director to develop and execute a comprehensive plan for the Firm’s participation with key and awards organizations in support of the firm’s strategy.
• Lead the Firm’s process for responding to awards and select survey requests. Responsible for research, writing or coordinating content, maintaining consistent firm brand and voice, coordinating submissions, and tracking and reporting results.
• Manage the production and submission of survey responses, including gathering and accurately reporting quantitative data, as well as client matters, transactions, and other key information.
• Develop and implement processes aimed at improving the quality of the submissions and outcomes and generating firmwide efficiencies.
• Develop and maintain relationships with relevant researchers, publication editors, reporters.
• Report award results to firm management, internal stakeholders, and the Marketing team. Promotes positive outcomes across the firm’s marketing channels.
• Develop and maintain historical information on efficacy of award submissions; maintain statistics regarding participation and achievements. Answer questions regarding results and firm award strategy and pursuits.
• Ensure data and editorial changes are reflected in and consistently made throughout relevant submissions and relevant marketing collateral.
• Advise and educate lawyers and business development liaisons on preparing successful award submissions, choosing client references, and preparing for interviews pertaining to awards and rankings.
• Oversee awards research calendars, submissions, and lawyer interviews, in close coordination with members of the marketing team.
• Collaborates with Client Teams to identify opportunities for the awards program to bolster client development objectives.

QUALIFICATIONS AND OTHER REQUISITES

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field.
• Demonstrated experience developing and producing submissions for award publications.
• Strong knowledge of core marketing principles including competitive intelligence, market research, and pitch and submissions responses
• Strong organizational and project management skills; ability to prioritize work, work within competing deadlines, and manage and direct work effort of external resources.
• Strong verbal, written, and technological skills (e.g., Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Asana).
• Excellent writing and editorial skills; able to adjust style, voice, and tone to appeal to targeted business and legal audiences; attuned to nuances conveyed by information.
• Creative problem-solving skills and the ability to align to big-picture objectives.
• Ability to prepare accurate, highly detailed work product.
• Ability to exchange information and to present ideas, report facts and other information clearly and concisely.

EXPECTED CORE COMPETENCIES

• Solid team player with ability to work with a multi-disciplinary team focused on collaboration; ability to work both independently and take direction from leadership, as required.
• Demonstrate proactivity in working with stakeholders on planning and opportunity spotting.
• Self-starter, motivated individual willing to go the extra mile to get the job done.
• Solution-oriented: able to identify, analyze, and trouble-shoot problems, and develop proactive solutions.
• Understand and embrace the firm’s culture, goals, service, and strategy, and able to convey it to the market.

Jenner & Block LLP is an equal opportunity employer. Recruitment and employment decisions are not made on the basis of an individual’s race, color, creed, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability or medical condition, genetic information, sexual orientation, sex, gender identity and/or expression, pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding or related medical conditions, arrest record, matriculation, personal appearance, political affiliation, marital, parental, veteran, military, or order of protection status, or any other protected status or that of their relatives, friends, or associates.