Role Title: Equality Diversity and Inclusion Advisor
Salary: £34,339.00 - £39,298.00 GBP Annual
Location: Darlington, Glasgow or Llandudno
Pension: A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%
Advert Closing Date: 28/01/2025
Is it time you unlocked your potential?
Student Loans Company is a non-profit making Government-owned organisation to provide loans and grants to students in universities and colleges in the UK. Since 1989, we have enabled our customers to invest in their futures by delivering secure, accurate and efficient assessment, payment and repayment services.
SLC now has an exciting opportunity for an Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) Advisor to join our Strategy, Policy, and EDI Team. This role is central to the delivery of SLC’s three-year EDI Strategy and will play a key part in creating a more diverse and inclusive culture across the organisation.
As someone passionate about making cultural change, the role holder will work collaboratively with the People Team, leadership team, directorates, and our colleague networks to identify opportunities for improvement and embed EDI initiatives across the business. They will lead on key activities to enable our colleagues to thrive and support SLC’s corporate ambition to be a great place to work.
The successful candidate will bring a proactive and collaborative approach, working to ensure that EDI is effectively integrated into all areas of the organisation. In doing so, they will contribute to creating an environment where everyone can succeed, enabling SLC to deliver an outstanding customer experience.
SLC offer a hybrid working model which will typically be 2 days in the office and 3 days from home.
What you bring:
- A working knowledge of diversity and inclusion best practice, legal requirements and emerging trends.
- Ability to demonstrate cultural awareness with experience of engaging with diverse communities and/or individuals.
- Excellent communication, interpersonal, written and verbal skills, with the ability to communicate sensitive issues effectively, tactfully and with empathy.
- Ability to facilitate discussions and provide constructive feedback and coaching on sensitive issues
- Previous experience working in a diversity and inclusion, HR/People, or advisory role, with demonstrated expertise in promoting EDI initiatives within a large organisation.
You can expect more from a career with SLC. We support colleagues to unlock their potential through our Career Pathways development programme and offer an excellent benefit and rewards package that includes:
- 28 days annual leave plus 8 public holidays
- Option to buy/sell annual leave
- Hybrid working
- Flexi-time and enhanced flexible working options available
- Option to join the Civil Service pension scheme
- Life insurance cover for 4 x annual salary
- Enhanced company sick pay and family leave including maternity, paternity and adoption
- Contributory lifestyle benefit options including discounts at hundreds of retailers, cycle to work scheme, access to the Civil Service Sports and Leisure Club for discounted gym memberships, and an optional dental insurance scheme
SLC are committed to ensuring our recruitment processes are inclusive for all candidates and will make reasonable adjustments for those who consider themselves to have a disability or long-term condition in line with the Equality Act 2010. Our application process provides candidates with the opportunity to request reasonable adjustments but if you would like to discuss this in more detail, please email ask_recruitment@slc.co.uk.
