Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Business Partner - Peterborough, United Kingdom - Peterborough City Council

Peterborough City Council
Peterborough City Council
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Peterborough, United Kingdom

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Job Summary:


Contract Type:
Permanent


Working Hours:
Full time


Advert Start Date:
12/02/2024


Advert End Date:
25/02/2024 23:59


Employment Location:
Sand Martin House, Peterborough


Salary:

£44,428 - £48.474


Weekly Hours:
37


Vacancy ID:
105756


Closing date:
25 Feb


Further Information:

The Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Business Partner will play a key role in bringing together an overview of the EDI activity delivered through Council services for Peterborough.


The Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Business Partner will lead, design, and develop our internal equality strategy ensuring they are embedded across each Council with support and accountability through Senior Managers and Council Members.

They will act as a critical friend, coordinating internal activity and leveraging partnerships so that we challenge people across both organisations to embed EDI in all aspects of the Council's operations, ensuring inclusion by design across all activities and making this relevant and meaningful to every employee.


They will lead by example, by demonstrating a thorough understanding of equal opportunities and how EDI matters and affects our workforce and the communities we serve, including practical consideration of intersectionality and community cohesion.

Strategic Agenda

  • Lead the Councils Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) agenda with the aim of mainstreaming EDI throughout the organisations' cultures, workforce management, workforce practices, service provision and community engagement, embedding inclusivity at the heart of our organisations' ambition and plans.
  • Lead on the review and refresh of the Councils Equality Strategy and action plan. Lead the preparation, distribution, monitoring and maintenance of the EDI action plans and road map, working with colleagues across the Council who have responsibility for aspects of this work. Escalating and resolving outstanding actions to a successful completion.
Professional Advice

  • Provide critical challenge to the leadership team, coordinating internal activity and leveraging partnerships so that we challenge people across the organisation to embed EDI in all aspects of the Councils operations, ensuring inclusion by design across all activities and making this relevant and meaningful to every employee.
  • Act as a source of professional advice and expertise, developing and acting upon specialist knowledge, best practice, and current approaches in EDI, including to services working directly with communities, as well as our corporate teams, such as Workforce Development and Communications.
  • Find creative solutions to complex organisational EDI matters, demonstrating an understanding of the impact and complexities of stakeholder and partnership arrangements applicable to both specific business areas, and the wider organisation. Act as a 'critical friend' to the Councils in a business partner capacity.
  • Establish and develop trusted relationships with the senior leadership team, influencing all leaders and managers to consider and be able to articulate how EDI influences the way that they lead and commission the services that their teams deliver.
Working with Communities and Partnerships Teams

  • Using the area profile information generated by the Communities and Partnerships Team, analyse and translate those requirements to ensure that workforce needs are also mapped and then work with internal partners to ensure that our workforce policies and practices mirror the community approach.
  • Map internal activity and partnerships so that they can be clearly described and understood across each organisation, and facilitate cross team working to collaborate on linked areas of activity and interest.
Organisational Working Groups and Forums

  • Chair the EDI Working Group, ensuring their work is robust and effective, and the action is developed, monitored and delivered on. Positively challenge the organisations to set ambitious goals to advance the agenda with pace.
  • Provide guidance on ways of working and governance for any EDI networks, helping them to achieve maximum impact and achieve cultural change across all diversity strands.
  • Work collaboratively with the Staff and Members Equality and Diversity Networks to support them to run their own activities and events.
Policy Development and Review

  • Work with colleagues across the Council to ensure Councilwide and service specific policies reflect our commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion. Collaborate with, advise and support other corporate support teams to ensure the Councils' strategies, policies and processes contribute to effective EDI management and delivery.
  • Work with colleagues in HR to develop robust and effective organisation wide EDI employment policies and processes to be embedded throughout.
  • Work with the Workforce Development Team to make sure that good quality learning and training tools are developed and accessible to all staff and are reviewed r
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