Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion Lead

About Us:

We are a modern university based in the diverse city of Leeds. We are ambitious to further our work to promote and embed a culture of inclusion, ensure equity in opportunity and drive meaningful change within our workforce to create a university community that is a place where everyone feels respected, valued and supported to achieve excellence.

Equality, diversity, and inclusion is central to everything we do as an institution and community, and it is a core component embedded into our overarching university strategy, significantly through our people priorities to have an excellent, diverse, engaged community.

The role:

As the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Lead, you will play an integral role in supporting and embedding this agenda across the institution. You will work collaboratively to support and influence colleagues of all levels to realise the vision and successfully implement the identified priorities and activities at both an institutional and School/Service level. You will play a key role in providing advice, increasing engagement, and raising the profile of our workstreams, whilst also delivering a range of institutional initiatives. You will specifically support activity in relation to the student community and assist colleagues who directly engage with our student body.

What we’re looking for:

• Proven experience in an Equality, Diversity and Inclusion role, with a strong understanding of best practice and legislation.
• Strong communication, leadership, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence others.
• Ability to analyse data and use insights to drive informed decision-making.
• Experience in developing and delivering Equality, Diversity and Inclusion training and awareness programmes.
• Passion for creating an inclusive, equitable workplace and driving positive cultural change.
• A proactive, solutions-oriented mindset with a genuine commitment and passion to continue to further embed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion into our everyday processes and practices.

To arrange an informal discussion about this post please contact Abbi Mottram via email on a.mottram@leedsbeckett.ac.uk

Closing date: Thursday 6^th March 2025 (23:59)

Interview date: Week commencing 17^th March 2025

For further information and to apply please visit: tinyurl.com/3kmf3bk2

Working here means you’ll also have access to a wide range of benefits including our generous pension schemes, excellent holiday entitlements, flexible working, reduced study fees, subsidised fitness facilities and a lot more.

Leeds Beckett University is committed to equality of opportunity, fairness and inclusion in our recruitment processes.

We particularly encourage applications from candidates who identify as Black, Asian or from an ethnic minority background, as well as disabled applicants and those from the LGBTQ+ community – as these groups are currently underrepresented within our Professional Services.

To understand what we mean by these definitions, you can access our EDI Glossary of Terminology here.

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