About Northern Trust
Northern Trust, a Fortune 500 company, is a globally recognized, award-winning financial institution that has been in continuous operation since 1889.
Northern Trust is proud to provide innovative financial services and guidance to the world’s most successful individuals, families, and institutions by remaining true to our enduring principles of service, expertise, and integrity. With more than 130 years of financial experience and over 22,000 partners, we serve the world’s most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.
Role/ Department
The Global Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DE&I) team is responsible for the development and implementation of Northern Trust’s diversity, equity and inclusion strategy under the direction of the Global Head of Corporate Sustainability, Inclusion and Social Impact. The team is located across all regions to ensure local best-practice and appropriate cultural adaptation. In the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region, the team’s primary focuses are on UK, Ireland, Guernsey and Luxembourg. The role reports to the Global Chief Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Officer. The role can be based in any of our main EMEA locations. It is a full-time role but can be worked on a hybrid basis in terms number of days in the office and flexibility on working hours.
The Key Responsibilities Of The Role Include
- Ensuring that the aims and objectives of the regional DE&I strategy and Business Unit DE&I plans are achieved by working with key champions and senior stakeholders at regional and local levels.
- Partnering and collaborating with HR to identify trends and themes, solutioning key DE&I issues, delivering advice and analysing workforce data to support the business.
- Bringing diversity, equity and inclusion to life through exciting, inspiring and engaging activities including design and delivery of a DE&I curriculum of workshops, presentations and educational events.
- Providing strategic support and operational guidance to the region’s Business Resource Councils
- Working in close partnership with Internal and External Comms to ensure that DE&I messaging reaches the appropriate audiences for maximum impact, including creative content development.
- Identify new opportunities to support the development of diverse talent, and lead the organisation and execution of existing programmes, including our flagship career development programme, the Diverse Leaders Programme (DLP).
- Collaborate with key stakeholders from across the business to support philanthropy efforts, aligning our DE&I objectives to volunteering opportunities, with a view to enhance employee engagement and create impact in the community.
- Working with Relationship Managers, the Sales Team and other client-facing partners within the business to respond to client requests for partnerships and collaborations on DE&I opportunities, including knowledge-shares and best practice overviews with a view to strengthen relationships and create change with prospects and clients.
- Managing the EMEA DE&I budget, including invoice and expense tracking.
- Manage relationships with key external vendors and partners from across the region, and identify opportunities to use their products and services to accelerate our own programme and change.
- Compiling submissions for diversity benchmarks, indexes and awards as well as RFP/DDQ responses to use our approach to win work and understand our position in the market.
- Representing the organisation externally on diversity and inclusion initiatives and networking with other diversity, equity and inclusion professionals to identify critical market trends and themes.
Skills/ Qualifications
The successful candidate will benefit from having:
- Experience of executing DE&I initiatives within the EMEA region.
- Ability and confidence to engage, motivate and advise across broad demographic groups and levels of seniority.
- Workshop facilitation and presentation skills.
- Data analytics skills, including good attention to detail and accuracy.
- Considerable experience in project/initiative management, capable of running a variety of projects/initiatives simultaneously.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills and experience of effectively communicating DE&I to internal and external stakeholders.
- Proactive self-starter able to work without significant oversight or direction
Working With Us
As a Northern Trust partner, greater achievements await. You will be part of a flexible and collaborative work culture in an organization where financial strength and stability is an asset that emboldens us to explore new ideas.
Movement within the organization is encouraged, senior leaders are accessible, and you can take pride in working for a company committed to assisting the communities we serve! Join a workplace with a greater purpose.
We’d love to learn more about how your interests and experience could be a fit with one of the world’s most admired and sustainable companies! Build your career with us and apply today. #MadeForGreater
Reasonable accommodation
Northern Trust is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please email our HR Service Center at MyHRHelp@ntrs.com.
We hope you’re excited about the role and the opportunity to work with us. We value an inclusive workplace and understand flexibility means different things to different people.
Apply today and talk to us about your flexible working requirements and together we can achieve greater.
