Temporary | Administrative Assistant, Career Development team - Onsite

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.