Strategic Lead – Equality Diversity and Inclusion
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The vacancy
Full time 35 hours per week
Permanent
Closing date for applications: 22 August 2021
First interview: 2 September 2021
Would you live to play a lead role in making on of the UK’s best-loved nature charities a consistently inclusive and welcoming to all? Then we have an exciting opportunity for you. We are looking for an individual who has a proven strategic experience of working within Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) at a senior level, and whose EDI expertise, strategic thinking and creative challenge will help us to achieve our vision where everyone can benefit from and act for nature with us.
About you
You will have had a proven track record of taking a lead in driving forward organisational change around EDI in a complex organisation. Your role will be to evolve and deliver our inclusivity strategy to ensure we’re a consistently inclusive movement, welcome to all. You will offer expertise, guidance, support and challenge across a wide range of diversity and inclusion areas.
Your current knowledge of diversity and inclusivity legislation and emerging areas is important, as well as its application across numerous work areas, not least HR, community engagement and campaigns. You will be a confident communicator and creative in your approach in keeping EDI at the forefront of everyone’s agenda. You will also have knowledge and experience of Inclusion measurement frameworks and knowledge of risk management approaches.
You will be a motivated and resilient self-starter, working closely with the senior leadership team and within the Operations Team. You will directly lead a small team comprising an EDI Advisor/Trainer and an EDI Intern and work across the breadth of the organisation providing support and advice both within the central charity and across the federation of 46 independent charities.
You will be a natural influencer and you will be highly personable and able to build effective stakeholder relationships, internally and externally, at all levels. A genuine passion for leading diversity, equality and inclusion work is a must! A desire to take people on the EDI journey with a critical friend approach, rather than one that is combative.
Who we are
We need nature and it needs us. We’re here to make the world wilder and make nature part of life, for everyone. We’re helping to make life better – for wildlife, for people, and for future generations.
The Wildlife Trusts are a grassroots movement of 870,000 members, 38,000 volunteers, and 2,800 staff across the UK. We are at an exciting moment in our 110-year history, with an ambitious new strategy in development setting out a vision of nature in recovery, with abundant, diverse wildlife and natural processes creating wilder landscapes where people and nature thrive.
Each Wildlife Trust is an independent charity formed by people getting together to make a positive difference to wildlife and future generations, starting where they live.
The next 10 years will be critical in determining what kind of world we will all live in. We need to reverse the loss of wildlife and put nature into recovery at scale as a matter of urgency if we are to prevent climate and ecological disaster. This will require big, bold changes in the way we think and operate, and the development of a strong, collaborative culture. It will require key stakeholders and the public to take action for nature’s recovery.
We want our people to be as diverse as society, so we particularly encourage applications from people who are underrepresented within our sector, including people from minority backgrounds and people with disabilities. We are committed to creating a movement that recognises and truly values individual differences and identities.
As a Disability Confident employer, we are committed to offering an interview to anyone with a disability that meets all the essential criteria for the post. Please let us know if you require any adjustments to make our recruitment process more accessible.
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