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The firm
DAC Beachcroft is a leading international legal business with more than 2,000 people across the UK, Europe, Asia Pacific and Latin America. We provide a full service claims, transactional, commercial, risk and advisory capability. We work with clients in a select range of industry sectors and are market leaders in health, insurance and real estate.
We are agile, progressive and easy to engage with. Our flexible approach to resourcing enables us to apply the right mix of legal, commercial and process skills to deliver the right outcome at the right price, depending on our clients individual needs. We pride ourselves on measuring our performance against our clients expectations.
Chambers UK, A Client's Guide to the Legal Profession 2012, recognised 121 of our partners and professionals as leading lawyers and we hold with 84 rankings in 34 separate practice areas, 20 of which are number one rankings.
In 2009 we achieved certification under ISO9001, the quality assurance standard and in 2011 we were awarded ISO27001 certification for our information security procedures. We are the largest law firm in the country to obtain a silver Investors in People award. The firm is committed to supporting the communities in which we operate through charitable giving, pro bono work and via structured programmes including those operated by Business in the Community and The Prince's Trust.
For further details on our work and our culture, please visit (web address removed) .
The department
Our Real Estate Team covers every aspect of commercial real estate work including planning and environmental, development, investment, asset management, funding, construction, landlord and tenant and dispute resolution. Clients include property management and development companies, health trusts and government bodies (local and central), owner occupiers and institutions, both in the UK and overseas.
Teams are drawn from our offices across the country (London, Manchester, Leeds and Bristol), ensuring our clients benefit from a combination of the most appropriately experienced team and local market knowledge.
Core responsibilities
Your core responsibities as a Secretary will require you to prepare correspondence and documents from digital dictation together with amending and formatting of documents and assisting with incoming billing, cash collection and accounts queries.
You will have responsibility for ensuring that client contact information is kept up to date and for booking client meetings.
Key skills
You will need to be qualified to a minimum of 5 GCSEs (including a grade C in English and Maths) or equivalent. A secretarial NVQ / Diploma or equivalent would be beneficial but is not essential but you must have previous secretarial experience within Real Estate with a minimum typing speed of 65 WPM.
You must be a confident user of IT, particularly in Microsoft packages and experience of Filesite would be beneficial.
You must be able to prioritise your workload, delivering to often competing deadlines, whilst having an excellent eye for detail with a concern for quality and accuracy.
You will be expected to have a flexible approach to your work inline with business requirements, working as a part of a team or independently keeping the client in mind at all times.
The confidence and ability to communicate clearly and concisely orally and in writing is essential to this role, as you will be expected to communicate in all areas and at all levels within the business.
DAC Beachcroft is an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from every sector of the community. If this opportunity sounds of interest to you, please send your CV via our online application system. Your application will be dealt with in the strictest of confidence.
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