The Client Services Specialist will provide high quality service to the lawyers, clients, staff, and visitor conference center services. This includes all aspects of conference room scheduling using the Event Management Software System, including reservations, confirmations, meeting set up, coordinating catering services, and regularly monitoring conference room availability. The Client Services Specialist will ensure the accurate and timely communication to and from lawyers, clients, staff, visitors, and those departments involved in providing service to the conference center.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Maintain the highest level of professionalism when clients, staff, and visitors who require interacting with lawyers, clients, staff, and visitors conference center services.
• Answer, screen, direct, and place telephone calls and direct lawyers, clients, staff, and visitors to appropriate destinations.
• Maintain a hospitality/concierge style level of Specialist will ensure the accurate and timely communication to and from lawyers, clients, staff, visitors, and those departments involved service in the Conference Center in order to assist with lawyers, staff, clients, and visitor needs.
• Work closely with conference room requestors to achieve the required core pieces of data necessary for each reservation and enter the information into EMS.
• Complete knowledge of each conference room, including seating capacity, audio visual equipment and functionality to ensure appropriate room reservation for meeting requirements.
• Track, change, and coordinate visitor offices.
• Assist lawyers, clients, staff, and visitors with requests for special arrangements or services, including transportation, restaurant, travel, and lodging.
• Respond to all requests in an accurate and timely manner.
• Develop excellent working relationships with lawyers, staff, and clients.
• Ensure guest registration is complete for each visitor.
• Maintain workplace security by issuing, checking, and collecting visitor badges.
• Scan, copy, print, mail, and complete other administrative tasks.
• Operate coffee and Nespresso machines, process orders, and deliver to client meetings or waiting area.
• Coordinate catering for events occurring in the conference center, including placing orders, setting up and breaking down of service.
• Schedule Conference Center and Visitor Office cleaning with office services department.
• Ensure reception, conference rooms, kitchen pantry, and surrounding areas are clean and organized. Replenish meeting, food, and beverage inventories.
• Proactively provide timely feedback to management on any issues that affect client services and the conference center.
• Process invoices, expense reimbursement, time entry, and other administrative duties as assigned.
• Timely and regular attendance.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
• Uphold high standards of confidentiality, discretion, and integrity, particularly with respect to all sensitive and/or confidential firm and client information to which this position will have access.

Qualifications:

• Strong client services background, with emphasis on organization, initiative, and attention to detail.
• Ability to accomplish requirements of position in high volume work environment requiring excellent time management and multi-tasking skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with emphasis on exceptional interpersonal communication skills, including the ability to listen to issues affecting the conference center and propose solutions.
• Ability to perform moderate document management with a working knowledge of various software such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint; including but not limited to, creating and editing documents; creating basic spread sheets; loading existing documents onto laptops for meetings.
• General knowledge of audio-visual systems to allow basic set up for microphones and other technology used to support meetings.
• Must be able to operate and troubleshoot, fax machines, copiers, and other basic office equipment.
• Minimum three years front desk experience in a professional environment; law firm experience preferred.
• Ability to learn and utilize EMS reservation system.
• Exhibit a willingness to be flexible and work alternative shifts and share in overtime as necessary to ensure adequate coverage during weekdays, weekends, holidays, and social events.
• Working harmoniously with co-workers, and those departments that provide service to the conference center, including Catering, Office Services, and ITS.

Covington &Burling LLP is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate in any aspect of employment, including hiring, salary, promotion, discipline, termination, and benefits, on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity or expression, age, marital status, sexual orientation, family responsibility, disability (including physical handicap),or any other improper criterion.

Covington will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with applicable laws, including the California Fair Chance Act, the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, and the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.

Status: Non-Exempt

Salary: $59,000 - $84,000

Reports To: Palo Alto Director of Administration

Workplace Type: Onsite