Diversity & Inclusion Partner - London, United Kingdom - Savills

Savills

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Key Responsibilities

Lead on projects to drive forward the Property Management D&I agenda, such as mentoring schemes, allies programme, community projects and outreach programmes.
Work with the Property Management communications team and D&I groups/networks to create high quality and impactful communications, including blog posts, articles, education pieces, and newsletters on D&I news
Organise and run the Property Management D&I committee, including the D&I steering group, chaired by Divisional HR Director, and the D&I working group committee, keeping notes of actions and ensuring commitment to those actions
Assist the UK Head of Diversity & Inclusion on a wider UK D&I events calendar, ensuring the property management D&I groups are connecting and networking to ensure intersectionality where appropriate
Lead on major events for Property Management, such as national inclusion week, with the support from the D&I groups and networks
Draft any external text or content required for D&I best practice such as Gender & Ethnicity Pay Gap as well as supporting Head of D&I on Stonewall Equality Index, Social Mobility Index etc
Create and own a central mechanism within Property Management to record D&I activity across all managed sites and inhouse teams which can be easily accessed for various requirements including best practice, knowledge sharing and building strategic partnerships
Track progress against Savills D&I targets and PM+ principles, working with the UK Sustainability teams and Head of D&I where it relates to the property management Green Charter and group ESG strategy
Highlight and deliver recommendations and progress to the PM+ Divisional Board on D&I initiatives including attending the board periodically
Be an active member of the People+ Board within Property Management actively feeding in to the People strategy for Property Management
Champion and role model inclusive behaviours and D&I best practice in everything that you do

Key Skills
Experience

Experience of previously working in a D&I role.
Evidence of knowledge and understanding of D&I issues, legislation and good practice.
Evidence of working within a large organisation (ideally professional services) and engaging with a range of stakeholders, including employee working/focus groups.
Excellent judgment and problem solving skills.
Experience in leading on projects and initiatives including measuring successes
Experience of writing communication pieces.

Skills and Knowledge

Excellent relationship builder
Selfstarter, who relishes challenges and strives for the best
Delivery: commit to challenging goals and consistently deliver
Continuous improvement: delivering efficiency in addition to effectiveness
Strong team player: builds relationships and consults with others, quickly establishes trust and credibility
Strong planning and organisation skills
Diplomatic and challenging with the ability to influence others
Confident with a positive outlook
Ethical with strong integrity
Be able to find and deliver a solution in the face of conflicting opinions and priorities

Team Overview
Savills culture is one of trust and respect, teamwork and collaboration. Our teams and our clients benefit when we work together, listening to and learning from each other. Above all, we value the motivation of our people.

This is evidenced by our wellbeing offer, our capability to facilitate flexible working and our support to enjoy a healthy work life balance.

Our Property Management division is the UK's leading provider of Property Management Services.

With a wide and varied client base, we manage all types of properties including offices, shopping centres, out of town retail, industrial, leisure, mixed used and residential assets as well as provide complementary strategic specialist services in research, retail marketing, asset management, facilities management, demised services and management set-up.

Due to the variety of services we provide as well as the range of property types that we manage this results in us having a diverse employee base with varying skill-sets and expertise.

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