Senior Inclusion and Diversity Consultant

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, 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.

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, we design and deliver training and consultancy solutions.

Senior Inclusion and Diversity Consultant - Job Description

Job purpose

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

1. 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.
2. Build Relationships - developing and nurturing close relationships with members and clients based on a clear understanding of their business or service issues.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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.

Person specification

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.

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)