Temporary | Administrative Assistant, Career Development team - Onsite

Job Description

Job Description

Lawyers on Demand, a Consilio company is actively recruiting for a temporary Administrative Assistant for an onsite role with one of your prestigious law firm clients in Washington, DC.

This is a hybrid role, 4 days onsite and 1 day remote. Experience with Career Development required.

Position Summary

The temporary, Administrative Assistant (a very heavy administrative role) provides essential administrative and coordination support for the career development team, with a primary focus on the firm’s evaluation processes. This role requires strong organization, attention to detail, discretion with confidential information, and the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Coordinate evaluation cycles by organizing materials, monitoring progress, and maintaining accurate records.
• Help ensure evaluations are completed consistently and on schedule.
• Develop working knowledge of the firm’s evaluation system to pull, compile, and summarize evaluation data.
• Maintain and update tracking tools (e.g., spreadsheets/dashboards) to monitor completion and highlight outstanding items.
• Follow up with evaluators regarding missing or incomplete evaluations.
• Schedule team specific meetings for evaluation discussions (associate and counsel).
• Coordinate calendars, send invitations, and manage meeting changes or updates.
• Prepare and distribute meeting materials to participants in advance.
• Assist with scheduling meetings involving practice group leaders.
• Provide general administrative assistance to the PD team as needed.
• Draft and send communications related to evaluation processes.
• Support special projects tied to professional development initiatives.

Qualifications

• Prior administrative, assistant, or coordination experience required.
• Strong organizational and time management skills with high attention to detail and accuracy.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Excel, Outlook, Word) and similar tools.
• Ability to handle confidential and sensitive information with discretion.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

LOD is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Diversity and inclusion is a core part of our Ways of Working, and we celebrate and embrace it. We know the individual differences of our people make us collectively better and we encourage all applicants; including people with disability, career breaks, gender diverse, LGBTQIA, and culturally diverse communities to join us so we can do great things together.

Company DescriptionLawyers on Demand, a Consilio company, is a global leader in legal staffing, eDiscovery, risk management, and legal consulting services. The company supports multinational law firms and corporations by providing identifying and sourcing talented individuals for staffing needs, using innovative software, combining deep legal and regulatory industry expertise and excellent client service.

Company Description

Lawyers on Demand, a Consilio company, is a global leader in legal staffing, eDiscovery, risk management, and legal consulting services. The company supports multinational law firms and corporations by providing identifying and sourcing talented individuals for staffing needs, using innovative software, combining deep legal and regulatory industry expertise and excellent client service.