Equality Diversity and Inclusion Lead

Equality Diversity and Inclusion Lead

£48,000 to £51,000 per annum

Permanent, full-time (37.5 hours per week)

Hybrid working with regular travel to our London Bridge Office

What the job involves

As part of our commitment to building an equal, diverse and inclusive organisation we need to recruit an Equality Diversity and Inclusion Lead to join our People and Culture Directorate. This newly created position will play a crucial role in shaping and delivering our strategy and development towards achieving our goals focused on our internal colleagues and volunteers.

As an integral member of the team, you’ll have a significant impact on ongoing EDI projects, working in close collaboration with project owners to ensure timely and within budget delivery. The EDI Lead will embed EDI activities and shape our approach to talent attraction, reward and all our people policies. You’ll help to support engagement activity, education and measurement ensuring we deliver our ambitions. You’ll also have the opportunity to design and deliver your own strategic EDI projects, embedding these across our directorates via training, coaching and direct support to managers at all levels.

You'll work closely with colleagues across the organisation to shape and lead the delivery of our EDI strategy, transforming our organisation through engagement, education and development of our employees and volunteers. You’ll also provide support to our internal people networks, providing coaching to the network chairs to deliver impactful results in line with our vision.

What we want from you

Ideal candidates will be subject matter experts with demonstrable experience. You’ll be comfortable with challenging others, as well as guiding and supporting senior managers in the developing and delivering EDI strategy.

You’ll have previous experience of developing and co-ordinating EDI focused people development initiatives. You’ll be able to evidence your knowledge of best practice and equality legislation and implementation. As you’ll be involved in current and new projects, you’ll need good project management skills and experience of collaborative and agile working across diverse groups.

Finally, you will be a strong collaborator you’ll need to engage and communicate effectively across all internal stakeholder groups.

We’re actively working to increase equality, diversity and inclusivity in our workforce and recruitment practice at Prostate Cancer UK. We particularly encourage applications from candidates with lived experience for this role.

Why work with us?

Prostate Cancer UK is the largest men’s health charity in the UK. We have a simple ambition – to stop prostate cancer damaging lives through funding research and supporting men and their families. We invest millions into research to find better ways to diagnose and treat prostate cancer; we work tirelessly to spread the word about men at risk and offer specialist support to people living with the disease.

Work with us and you’ll see your efforts pay off as we fight for a better future for men.

What we offer

Join our team and be part of an award-winning charity. We will support you to develop your skills and expertise.

We offer a competitive benefits package, including:

• Generous leave entitlements which increase with service
• Enhanced contributory pension scheme
• Life insurance and group income protection
• Health Cash Plan
• Discounted gym membership and high street shopping discounts
• Loans for season tickets or cycles
• Advice and support on pretty much anything via our Employee Assistance Programme
• One ‘development day’ per month to help training or personal development.

Hybrid working

Our aim is to be a flexible workplace. We want people to be successful, confident, informed, connected to their colleagues and develop in their roles. We usually work from home, with some time each month spent in our London Bridge office. Office time is usually to collaborate with colleagues (this is a commute, so we pay our own travel costs to the office). The frequency may vary over the year and is dependent on the needs of the role and the organisation. Space is also available for employees that wish to use the office on a more regular basis.

For this role, we would expect the successful candidate to be coming into the London office initially one day per week.

Our commitment

Our teams, supporters, partners, and those living with prostate cancer, come from all walks of life. We draw upon the difference in who we are, what we’ve experienced and how we think to build a future where lives are not limited by prostate cancer. Not only is it the right thing to do, it makes us stronger and helps us reach more people. If you share our ambition we would love to hear from you.

Next steps

Please note: applications for this role will be anonymised and only your responses will be used to shortlist your application. Your CV, while still essential, will not be reviewed until after the shortlisting process has taken place.

Got a question? Please let us know if you have any accessibility requirements. If you have a query - we’re here to help: hr@prostatecanceruk.org

The closing date is 01 May 2023, but please note we will be shortlisting and interviewing candidates as applications come in, so please apply as soon as you can, as we may close the vacancy early. Applications must be submitted by 23:45 UK time on the closing date.

Interviews: By arrangement. We are running a two-stage interview process with informal first round interviews to be held on Friday 5th May 2023 and second round formal interviews to be held on Thursday 11th May 2023.

Prostate Cancer UK is a registered charity in England and Wales (1005541) and in Scotland (SC039332). Registered company number 02653887.