Practice Manager at Hamilton Lloyd & Associates

Hamilton Lloyd and Associates is an innovative boutique Human Resources firm, which is focused on offering personalized services to organizations across a diverse range of sectors. We are nimble, less complicated and more time effective and therefore tend to offer better, more customized solutions and a greater ROI for our clients.

Our team is supported by robust internal management processes, access to continually update skills through our training programmes and a state-of-the-art IT system which gives our consultants immediate access to an extensive network of templates, resources and executives. We provide leading companies throughout Nigeria with a sustainable competitive edge, using our unique and effective approach for the development of their human capital.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Practice Manager

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Description

• Practice Manager required is the operational backbone of the law firm, providing a demandingly diverse skills mix ranging from people management and marketing to finance, facilities and administration.
• The person will be responsible for the seamless daily running of the practice- a roll-up-your-sleeves role that requires commercial awareness and first-class co-ordination and communication skills.
• The Practice Manager will be as adept at motivating secretarial staff and dealing with suppliers as supporting clients and strategizing with senior partners.

Job Functions

• Pursuing day-to-day management.
• Developing the organizational traditions, work surroundings and facilitating communication.
• Supervise company’s day to day operations and facility management.
• Develops business development strategies including strategic, tactical planning and quality control.
• Responsible for the recruitment and selection of new hires, training and development, employee relations, counselling, personnel data systems, benefits administration and other HR functions for the legal, paralegal and support staff.
• Responsible for practice management including Lawyer recruiting, Legal Assistant supervision, implementing professional standards and other practice management functions.
• Accountable for information and details sharing.
• Receives information and details from employees and communicates it in meetings.
• Sends email correspondences to senior partners within the organization to provide information and updates regarding the practice.
• Communicates and collaborates with inside and outside stakeholders, which include suppliers, staff, and vendors.
• Collecting information and details which could help the firm in day-to- day and company-wide decision-making benefits the practice.
• Communicate and implement firm’s strategy internally and externally to enable all employees, suppliers and contractors understand the firm’s strategic plan and how it carries out its overall goals.
• Drive decision making that creates medium and long term improvement for the firm.
• Manage and contribute significantly to the firm’s operations/ management, marketing.

Education & Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in Law (LLB) is preferred or Bachelors degree in other social sciences.
• CIPM, CIPD is an added advantage.
• 6 - 10 years related work experience out of which a minimum of 2 years MUST have been in a law firm

Requirements (Compulsory):

• Good oral and written communication skills.
• Good negotiation skills
• Detail oriented
• Good interpersonal skills
• Innovative and analytical
• Good Leadership/Managerial Skills
• Planning and organizational skills
• Results oriented
• Good numerical skills
• Diplomacy and tact
• Excellent computer skills
• Business acumen
• Analytical skills
• Ability to be discreet & handle sensitive information

Application Closing Date
2nd February, 2022.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their professional CV to: [email protected] using the Job Title as the subject of the mail.