Senior Inclusion and Diversity Consultant - Consultancy Team
Thank you for considering coming to work with us at Inclusive Employers. We hope this information can help you decide whether to apply. Before you get into the detail, though, here are some headlines:
- Salary: £50K - £55K p.a.
- Base: Hybrid (1 day per week in our London office so we are looking for our new colleague to be based around the London area. )
- Working pattern: This is a Full-Time role, (however part-time, compressed fortnight and job share - all options considered.)
- We are a Disability Confident Employer and offer a guaranteed interview scheme for any disabled applicant who may wish to take up this offer, where they meet the minimum requirements for the role
- You must be eligible to work in the UK to be considered for this role
Obviously, we really understand the importance of different voices, experiences, perspectives and backgrounds within the workforce. Our workforce is no different and we strongly encourage applications from members of minority groups and all sections of the community.
If you think you might have the skill set required for this role, but are not 100% sure, please do still apply and let us decide. We know that certain groups rule themselves out of interesting opportunities assuming that others will be more successful but please don't be that person. We want to hear from the widest cross-section of the community.
Should you require these documents in alternative formats, please contact: recruitment@inclusiveemployers.co.uk.
Inclusive Employers
As the UK's first and leading cross-sector membership organisation, we support employers in their goal to build inclusive workplaces and diverse workforces. Working across the whole spectrum of inclusion, in addition to member services, we design and deliver training and consultancy solutions.
We work in partnership with our members to bring together best practice and cutting-edge thinking to promote innovation in this area and support businesses to benefit from inclusion's social and commercial benefits. Find out more about us here: www.inclusiveemployers.co.uk.
Job Purpose
Senior Inclusion and Diversity Consultant - Job Description
Reporting to our Head of Consultancy, the purpose of this role is to contribute to the goals of Inclusive Employers by delivering high quality inclusion and diversity membership services, training and consultancy to both member and non-member organisations.
Key Responsibilities
The following are the key elements of the role:
- Member support - responsible for a portfolio of cross-sector member organizations, providing ongoing account management support across the breadth of their inclusion activities. This could be by responding to specific queries, providing advice, policy review, researching best practices etc
- Build Relationships - developing and nurturing close relationships with members and clients based on a clear understanding of their business or service issues
- Develop and deliver learning interventions - writing and delivering a wide range of training, learning and development interventions with an engaging, informative, and convincing style that creates lasting change, to a wide range of audiences. Face to face and virtually
- Consultancy solutions - delivering comprehensive, specialist and practical inclusion and diversity expertise and solutions to employers across sectors on issues ranging from strategic to tactical and operational. For example, delivering a recruitment audit, culture review or an equality impact assessment for a particular policy
- Innovate - working as part of a small and dynamic team to contribute thought leadership and innovative ideas and thinking to help deepen our collective knowledge and understanding of inclusive best practices and identify new and innovative solutions to inclusion problems
- Generate growth - identify new opportunities for us to grow our membership, business networks, products and services to enhance our offering to clients and widen our membership
Development opportunities
Inclusive Employers is a small but growing organisation. Our services are in high demand, hence the need to expand the team. As we continue to grow there will be opportunities to shape and develop in the role.
We invest in developing our staff through our own courses, external development opportunities and through a comprehensive programme of internal CPD sessions. As far as possible, we enable staff to develop their own areas of specialism and passions.
What We Like About Working At Inclusive Employers
We asked our employees to share what they felt was unique and special about working for Inclusive Employers to help give you a sense of what it is like here. These are their quotes, we have tried to organise them into themes:
The Culture
- High level of autonomy, freedom and the chance to be creative
- High trust culture - supports flexible working
- Extremely supportive team culture - we want each other to succeed and provide support when and where it is needed
- Everyone is encouraged to give their opinion/input and it feels like you're genuinely being listened to
- I feel valued for the experience and knowledge I bring - it is encouraging and confidence-boosting!
- Each team member is valued for the skills, knowledge and experience they bring both to their job and the team/organisation as a whole
- We have less politics to navigate compared to "in-house" roles as we are working with people internally and externally that get it
- We work at pace, it is a fast-moving, fluid environment where roles are challenging and stretching
- Opportunities to learn on the job, muck in, and help out with different tasks
- Strong and rewarding relationships with members
- The opportunity to be visible and heard in the business and with our members
- Working in varied environments - with different types of organisations - gives a lot of scope to gain experience and knowledge
- Amazing access to a very wide range of employers working on projects to influence culture
- We are respected as experts and innovators
The work
- The chance to plan and deliver innovative projects
- Extensive variety of tasks and responsibilities which are ever changing
- Opportunity to shape and evolve your role
- A total focus on inclusion - which makes every day interesting even in just the more casual conversations we have within the office - like-minded people
- The opportunity to explore inclusion as an everyday issue
- Getting to work in areas/fields of expertise/topics you really care about
Requirements
Person specification
We are looking for a motivated and energised individual who can add value to our amazing Consultancy team. This is a team with a proven track record of designing and delivering inclusion interventions that contribute to positive cultural development for the clients and members we work with.
If you have experience of these key requirements, we would really like you hear from you.
This is the minimum criteria for the role:-
- Responsibility and accountability for Inclusion within a commercial organisation
- Influencing senior (C suite) decision makers
- Translating strategic inclusion priorities into organisation wide objectives
- Implementation of a DEI strategy including leading activities such as audits, ERG activity, listening groups, pay gap analysis, policy reviews or employee engagement
- Managing multiple projects, with an ability to prioritise work
- Designing and delivering creative inclusion interventions such as training sessions.
- Facilitating meaningful discussions around challenging subjects
General skills :-
- Excellent interpersonal and relationship-building skills
- Influencing skills
- Delivering inclusion and diversity solutions or strategies within complex organizations
- A working and comprehensive understanding and knowledge of the Equality Act 2010
- An in-depth and current understanding of inclusive best practice
- Highly developed presentation and communication skills
- Project management/organisational skills
- Resourceful and flexible
- An inclusive approach and value set
How To Apply
Please click apply and attach your CV. You will be invited to answer the application questions and a cover letter is not required.
The CV should clearly align with the requirements of the role at Inclusive Employers.
CLOSING DATE: Midnight Tuesday 25th February 2025
INTERVIEW DATE: March 2025
Benefits
- 25 days annual leave allowance. Additional day awarded at year anniversary, up to 30 days
- Birthday off - taken either the Monday or Friday if it falls on a weekend
- Volunteering day off - 1 day per year to be used for any voluntary work
- Pension 3% employer (capped at higher earnings limit), 5% employee. Additional employee contributions are possible
- Flexible working - Remote working with flexible hours by agreement
- Bonus Scheme*
- Enhanced Sick leave*
- Maternity - Additional leave and Pay*
- Parenting leave*
- Bereavement leave
- Transitioning at work* - up to 2 weeks paid time for surgery
- Benefits Platform: Physical, wellbeing and financial benefits - with an option to opt in for a health cash benefits plan
(* Benefits available to permanent staff upon completion of a probationary period)
