Property & Workplace Apprentice - Manchester

We are recruiting a Property & Workplace Apprentice to support our Property & Workplace teams in Manchester. The role is based within the Property & Workplace group in the Manchester office, working across various departments to provide support to colleagues and clients., whilst working towards successful completion of a Level 3 Business Administration apprenticeship. Our apprentices will learn from colleagues and mentors to build a wide range of skills and experience by working across a number of the Property & Workplace functions such as Reprographics, Records Management, Mail Services, Front of House, Document Production, and Legal Administration.,

• Follow internal procedural guidelines ensuring all systems are updated and documentation is completed
• Deal with queries and requests from internal and external clients, and visitors at all levels
• Provide administrative support as required including filing, scheduling, data entry, and finance support
• Assist with incoming and outgoing post, DX and courier deliveries
• Records management (archiving) requests and returns as required
• Distribution of external and internal deliveries as required
• Engage with approved suppliers to ensure stock levels within the office and department are maintained
• Production and finishing of hard copy documents to a high standard in various sizes
• Undertaking printing requests from a variety of applications including Microsoft office suite
• Scanning of documents to distribute externally or store in line with the e-filing policy
• Manipulation and distribution of electronic documents using specialised software including OCR, indexing, and combining files to ready for distribution via various methods such as E-Bible or secure FTP
• Assisting with meeting room bookings including updating the system, catering, IT requirements and setting up video conference facilities and WebEx meetings
• Creation and amendment of documents within the firm's house style guidelines
• Opening of matters in the firms document management system and filing of documents within agreed protocols
• Assisting with event organisation
• Completion of training to ensure both technical and personal skill development
• To undertake ad hoc departmental duties from time to time in accordance with departmental and business needs, as identified by the manager
• Read and understand the requirements of the firm's Health and Safety policy and ensure that it is applied appropriately, In everything we do connected with our People, our Clients and our Communities, we live by these values:
• Be Supportive - we are compassionate and inclusive, valuing diversity and acting thoughtfully
• Be Collaborative - we are proactive, passionate team players investing in our relationships
• Be Bold - we are fearless and inquisitive, challenging ourselves to think big and find creative new solutions
• Be Exceptional - we are strategic and driven, exceeding standards and expectations
DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION At DLA Piper, diversity and inclusion underpins how we live our values and everything we do. We believe that everyone has a voice, and that everyone's voice counts. We know that the rich diversity across our firm makes us stronger, more innovative and creative, which helps us to better serve our clients and communities. We are committed to providing an inclusive working environment and culture across our global firm, where everyone can bring their authentic self to work. Diversity of perspective, thought, background and culture combine to make us the leading global law firm; that's why we actively seek to build balanced teams. We welcome the unique contribution that you will bring to our firm and actively encourage applications from all talented people - however your talent is packaged, whatever your background or circumstance and regardless of how you identify. HYBRID WORKING We recognise that people have responsibilities and interests outside of their career and that as a business, we all benefit from working flexibly. That's why we are open to discussing with candidates the different ways in which we are able to support requests for agile working arrangements.

Good communication skills and a high level of professionalism are required to fulfil the role. APPRENTICE ELIGIBILITY
• You will need GCSEs in Maths and English at Grade C/4 or above
• You need to have the right to work in the UK and have lived in the UK for the last 3 years, Good level of IT knowledge, including Microsoft Office Suite with an understanding of file structures and a wide range of applications
• Confident and able to build trust and rapport to develop effective relationships
• Able to handle multiple priorities, working to sometimes conflicting timescales in a fast-paced and challenging environment
• Remains calm under pressure
• Focus on continued personal development and ensuring all training requirements are up to date
• Polite, professional and friendly
• Good communicator- both written and verbally
• Customer service focused
• Enthusiastic with a 'can do' attitude
• Good timekeeping and attendance
  
  DLA Piper is a global law firm with lawyers and business service professionals located in more than 40 countries throughout the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific. Our global reach ensures that we can help businesses with their legal needs anywhere in the world. We strive to be the leading global business law firm by delivering quality, service excellence and value to our clients and offering practical and innovative legal solutions to help them succeed. Our clients range from multinational, Global 1000, and Fortune 500 enterprises to emerging companies developing industry-leading technologies, as well as government and public sector bodies., DLA Piper is a global law firm with lawyers located in more than 40 countries throughout the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific, positioning us to help clients with their legal needs around the world.
We strive to be the leading global business law firm by delivering quality and value to our clients, and we achieve this through practical and innovative legal solutions that help our clients succeed. We're proud to serve an international client base that includes more than half of the Fortune 250 and nearly half of the FTSE 350 companies. We help the world's top companies with their business-critical issues. Many of the deals we work on are complex and challenging - transcending not just practice areas, but borders, languages and legal systems. With offices throughout the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific, we represent more clients in a broader range of geographies and practice disciplines than virtually any other law firm in the world. Our lawyers have wide experience in arbitration, banking, competition and trade, as well as corporate crime and corporate finance. We have strong practices in employment, energy, hospitality and leisure, insurance, intellectual property, litigation, mergers and acquisitions and have developed key teams in pensions, private equity, real estate, tax, and technology As a firm we are committed to diversity and to building an inclusive culture for all of our people, where differences are genuinely valued. For us, diversity isn't just about visible differences, it's the unique blend of talents, skills, experiences and perspectives that makes each of us an individual and we know it's crucial to have a culture and environment where those differences are genuinely valued.