What We Will Offer
We will offer you a place where you can be yourself and where there are no limits on what you can achieve. With us, you can take ownership of your career and have honest conversations throughout. You would join an ambitious firm with a clear strategy for profitable growth where you can get early responsibility and early involvement in growing the business. Here you can expect a competitive and fair reward as well as recognition based on all round performance. This forms part of our internal promise to you, The Deal, between the firm and its employees.
You Can Expect
- A competitive salary and a host of family friendly policies
- Life assurance, private health and dental care for you and your family
- A range of flexible benefits including gym discount and retail vouchers
- Tech, cycle and electric car schemes
- The opportunity to support the firm's charity through volunteering leave
- A wellbeing strategy that focuses on preventative measures to maintain overall health, and tools and support for when our people experience physical or mental difficulties. The strategy focuses on four pillars: physical, emotional, financial and social aspects.
Team Structure
This is a new role in the firm's responsible business team, made up of the head of responsible business, senior pro bono lawyer, D&I and social impact manager, and D&I and social impact assistant.
We are seeking an experienced D&I and wellbeing professional to drive forward the wellbeing action plan alongside colleagues in the wider people team, and drive progress in some particular diversity and inclusion work, which includes progressing our ethnicity action plan, aspects of our gender action plan, and LGBTQ+ inclusion.
The newly created role, diversity, inclusion and wellbeing manager will be key to driving progress in diversity and inclusion, and wellbeing at the firm, supporting us to create a healthy, happy workforce where everyone can be themselves and thrive in work.
The remit of the responsible business team has recently expanded; this role has been created to take on key elements of the D&I and wellbeing action plans. The role will report to the head of responsible business and the post holder will work very closely with the D&I and social impact manager. The D&I and social impact manager, and new D&I and wellbeing manager, will both work on the D&I programme of work, each driving specific elements of the strategy, and will work closely together on inclusion more broadly.
This role will involve collaboration across multiple teams and at all levels, so strong collaboration, communication skills and judgement are essential.
Main Responsibilities
Wellbeing
Our aim is to focus on preventative measures that support all colleagues to maintain overall health, and tools and support for people when they experience physical and mental health challenges. The four pillars of our wellbeing strategy are physical, emotional, financial and social.
Our wellbeing project team consists of members of the payroll and benefits, HR operations and learning and development team. As a wellbeing subject matter expert, you will lead this agenda; engaging, guiding, and upskilling team members, including senior stakeholders, to ensure we achieve our vision for our people, at all levels.
The Postholder Will
- work with members of the global people team and beyond to further develop the firm's wellbeing strategy and action plan driving change at organisation, team and individual level
- develop and monitor key metrics related to wellbeing to inform the actions that we take to support colleagues' wellbeing
- develop and manage the wellbeing communications plan
- create and implement awareness and education that focuses on fostering good wellbeing
- benchmark external best practice to identify approaches for advancing wellbeing in our firm
Belonging, inclusion and diversity
We want to be known as an inclusive and diverse firm, where all our people feel they can be themselves and thrive at work.
The Post Holder Will
- work with the D&I and social impact manager, head of responsible business, global HR operational teams, talent acquisition and future talent teams, and other key internal stakeholders to embed UK inclusion and diversity activity into all HR and business processes and policies
- manage UK diversity programmes focused on retention and progression of underrepresented talent. This post-holder will have responsibility for driving specific action plans including, but not limited to our ethnicity action plan, LGBTQ+ inclusion, our work supporting parents and carers
- alongside the D&I and social impact manager, oversee and support firm's UK and global employee networks and champions, ensuring that they contribute to and inform decision making and to provide a method of engagement
- support internal and external reporting on D&I, including pay gap and SRA reporting
- work with the business development team to respond to client pitches and data requests
- work closely with the communications team to ensure careful management of the firm's image and messaging on diversity, inclusion and wellbeing
- manage relationships with partner organisations such as Stonewall and Working Families
- complete external benchmarking and awards submissions
- provide guidance and subject matter expertise on inclusion, diversity and wellbeing to colleagues across the business
- contribute to the design of our training programmes
- benchmark external best practice to identify approaches for advancing inclusion and diversity in our firm
Most of our roles are hybrid, meaning that colleagues benefit from working in our office and remotely. We are happy to discuss this and other flexible working arrangements with you as part of the application and interview process.
Attributes/Skills Required
- Experience in developing, embedding and evaluating inclusion, diversity and wellbeing programmes within a business
- A strong understanding of D&I and wellbeing issues and best practices
- Experience of delivering inclusion and diversity programmes end-to end
- Collaborative approach, with the ability to work with colleagues at all levels across the business
- Ability to influence and support people at all levels
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Experienced in monitoring, analysing, and presenting data and using related insights to identify and deliver opportunities for change.
- Prior experience in the legal sector is not required, however you should be able to demonstrate some understanding of the challenges of working in a partnership or similar environment
This job description is indicative only and does not represent an exhaustive list of responsibilities. The firm reserves the right to alter or change the responsibilities at any time, in line with the firm's strategy and business needs.
We are an equal opportunity organisation, committed to having a diverse workforce. We do not discriminate on the basis of age, sex, race, disability, sexual orientation, culture, or any other protected characteristics. We aim to create a culture where everyone can be themselves and is valued for their strengths and unique perspectives.
About The Firm
With 8 offices worldwide and with our headquarters based in London, Stephenson Harwood is a law firm where our people are committed to achieving the goals of our clients - listed and private companies, institutions and individuals across the globe. Our mix of expertise and culture results in a combination of deep local insight and the capability to provide a seamless international service.
Our experience encompasses corporate, commercial litigation and arbitration, employment, pensions and private wealth, finance, marine and international trade, and real estate and projects.
We assemble teams of bright thinkers to match our clients' needs and give the right advice from the right person at the right time. Dedicating the highest calibre of legal talent to overcome the most complex issues, we deliver pragmatic, expert advice that is set squarely in the real world.
We understand the power of diversity in delivering that high calibre advice to our clients. We want to attract diverse talent and we particularly encourage applications from underrepresented demographics.
Our Values
Individuality - We encourage creativity and devlop talent.
Commitment - To be the best and deliver the highest standard.
Teamwork - We work together to build close, long-term relationships.
Straight talking - We say what we mean and do what we say.
Our Vision into 2026
To be a successful firm where talented people work together in an entrepreneurial environment, building long term client relationships.
This version is about who we want to be, as well as who we are. It is as much about our values as about our character - the attributes we want to see from all of our people. That's how we unlock our entrepreneurial spirit, advising our clients with top performing teams.
A key part of the 2026 strategy is to focus on five core sectors: decarbonisation, life sciences, private capital & funds, technology, and transporation & trade. These have been identified as crucial in the drive for accelerated profitable growth.
