Director Of Diversity And Inclusion

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Director of Diversity and Inclusion

Duties: Provide subject matter expertise on internal and external D&I best practices. Raise awareness and engage others to further the Firm’s goals around building an inclusive workforce and an ally-ship focused culture. Develop analytical tools and methods to measure the effectiveness of the Firm’s diversity strategy; analyze and report on D&I progress to determine organizational health. Build key relationships with diverse professional organizations; serve as the Firm’s representative to external professional and community organizations. Build and maintain strong relationships with practice groups, teams, offices and functional leaders to leverage D&I-related marketing opportunities. Manage, mentor and lead the D&I team, creating an engaged environment with an open communication culture and providing effective guidance. Strategic and Business Planning Work with Firm leaders to prioritize and align the Firm’s D&I objectives with the vision and goals of the Firm and practice groups. Collaborate with the firmwide D&I Committees and Committee Leaders to create and implement strategic plans and initiatives. Work closely with the Chief Talent Officer, senior management team and administrative departments to accomplish the goals of the D&I Committees. Work collaboratively with the Firm’s marketing team on the client RFP and survey processes, ensuring that D&I team is well prepared to tell our diversity story with current data and strategic analysis. Participate in client meetings as requested. Lead efforts to simplify and automate client and industry diversity reporting and to utilize diversity data to establish priorities and drive change. Elevate the Firm’s brand as a leader in D&I through personal engagement with clients and the D&I legal community and by writing thought leadership pieces and speaking at industry conferences, bar associations, etc. Develop and lead communications plan that includes the Firm’s intranet and website content to promote D&I activities, initiatives and messages for both the internal audience and for potential candidates in the recruitment process. Track diversity expenditures to eventually prepare detailed annual budget. Partner with attorney and professional staff recruiting departments to develop and deploy a cutting-edge workforce strategy; identify and implement strategic opportunities to develop our diversity pipeline including best practices to recruit in local communities in which we operate. Collaborate with the attorney and professional staff training departments to organize and implement all diversity and inclusion training programs and CLE requirements. Collaborate with the legal personnel and practice management departments to oversee the mentorship, development, retention and promotion of women, minority and LGBTQ attorneys. Develop strategy for integration of D&I into firm management and leadership initiatives. Focus on programs that will further the hiring, retention and development of a diverse talent pipeline. Develop meaningful metrics, tools, and analytics that enable leadership to evaluate D&I performance and integration and effectiveness of the Firm’s D&I strategy. Conduct research and analysis to provide insight on developing diversity workforce management trends. Benchmark industry best practices to support strategies to monitor and evaluate progress in creating a diverse and inclusive workforce. Evolve affinity groups and employee networks to positively impact the business through effective leadership, engagement, programming and management. Guide and support the introduction and development of affinity groups, employee networks and other networking groups.

Additional Information

Ref. R823

Company info

Fenwick & West LLP.
801 California Street
Mountain View
California
United States 94041
Fax : 650-983-5200
Website : http://www.fenwick.com