DAC Beachcroft is looking to recruit a Receptionist / Office Assistant to our offices in Dublin.
DAC Beachcroft Dublin is a full services law firm specialising in insurance, professional indemnity, defendant personal injury, health, commercial litigation and employment work.
We offer a local service to all clients, whether based in the UK, Ireland or internationally. Our team of partners, lawyers and support staff work together to provide a client-led service, which responds swiftly and effectively to all matters.
Since the inception of our Dublin office we have established ourselves as one of Ireland's fastest growing and most recognised firms within our areas of expertise. We have achieved this by providing a unique offering which can be tailored to the specific requirements of each of our clients. We provide this bespoke service incorporating sound, pragmatic and commercial advice in a cost effective way.
Main ResponsibilitiesReporting to Regional Facilities Manager, this role provides high-quality professional and effective service to both internal and external clients in order to meet the business needs of the team in the Dublin office.
Responsibilities include but not limited to:
- Be first point of contact for meeting and greeting clients and colleagues
- Oversee the booking and supervision of meeting rooms and meeting related requests
- Co-ordinate and order appropriate food and beverages for all internal and external meetings as requested
- Provide administrative support to wider office, as required, including data entry, archiving, petty cash and general administration
- Manage all incoming and outgoing courier post
- Manage taxi bookings
- Manage an online parking booking system
- Assist with ad-hoc hospitality and office-related events and projects as they arise
- Other tasks as reasonably requested to support the efficient operations of the team, office and Firm
- Highly motivated and pro-active, with previous experience in a similar role, ideally within professional or legal services
- Excellent phone manner and interpersonal skills with a friendly and welcoming demeanour
- Confidence in liaising with clients and colleagues at all levels
- Ability to work efficiently and effectively in a standalone role to complete tasks
- Willingness and flexibility to work overtime on occasion to meet the clients’ needs
- Enthusiastic about building strong internal relationships, with excellent external facing client service skills
- Has good practical knowledge of Microsoft 365 (Office) package, especially Excel and Word
- Is able to work from the office 5 days a week, Monday to Friday
DAC Beachcroft Ireland has over 80 employees and is continuing to grow. We are a full service law firm with a diverse domestic and international client base. We are part of DAC Beachcroft LLP, an international law firm comprising in excess of 2,500 staff and benefiting from the depth and reach of a legal network with coverage across Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America and North America. Our clients benefit from the management and quality systems of a truly international law firm.
We are constantly developing our international pedigree, whilst maintaining a strong domestic focus, allowing us to service all our clients to the highest possible standard.
DAC Beachcroft Dublin holds certification under ISO9001, the quality assurance standard and ISO27001, the information security standard and in 2013 achieved the Gold Investors in People award.
Application Details
We hope that you will decide to make an application to join us and look forward to discussing how DAC Beachcroft can help you on your career path and how you can help us to continue making our firm a success.
DAC Beachcroft is an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from every sector of the community. We also welcome direct applications. If this opportunity sounds of interest to you, please make an application and submit your CV. Your application will be dealt with in the strictest of confidence.
Note for Recruitment Agencies – the DAC Beachcroft recruitment team is responsible for managing all current vacancies through direct hiring and referrals wherever possible. We do work with recruitment agencies and where we require external support we will formally release those vacancies to the agencies on our Preferred Supplier List deemed best placed to assist us. Speculative CVs sent by any agency to any DAC Beachcroft employee without a specific request by the recruitment team will not be accepted and with no introduction fee applicable. Our recruitment team can be contacted at recruitment@dacbeachcroft.com
