Deputy Director of Equality, Diversity & Inclusion
Posted 30/04/2024 by Finegreen
A new opportunity has arisen for an Interim Deputy Director of Equality, Diversity & Inclusion within an NHS organisation in the East Midlands.
Main responsibilities:
- Leading the development and implementation of the organisation's approach to equality, diversity and inclusion especially in addressing health inequalities;
- Providing strong, impactful and professional leadership for equality, diversity and inclusion work across the organisation;
- Leading communication to the Board and other stakeholder groups providing expert advice in the area of EDI and reporting on the progress and impact of significant projects and transformative initiatives;
- Working with colleagues and teams throughout the organisation and externally, to negotiate, develop and agree shared and understood goals for the successful delivery of EDI;
- Working proactively with key community partners to positively influence wider determinants of health in the local population and deliver social value impact;
- Advising on potentially contentious and sensitive equality and inclusion information and negotiating delivery with key stakeholders;
- Analysing where investment in EDI will deliver the most significant impacts and return on investment bringing together complex data.
Key Skills/Experience:
- Masters Degree or other higher degree in cognate discipline;
- Extensive experience of leading equality and inclusion programmes and interventions in large, complex organisations and across organisational boundaries;
- Specialist knowledge of relevant EDI legislative and policy framework;
- Expert understanding of how EDI impacts workforce and service users;
- Experience of involving service users, customers or similar groups in strategic planning and in responding to EDI issues;
- Specialist knowledge of a wide range of organisational development tools, metrics and processes;
- Knowledge and understanding of case law relating to equality and human rights;
- Skilled negotiator with the ability to understand competing priorities and different points of view and work to find consensus.
- Type:
- Contract
- Start Date:
- ASAP
- Contract Length:
- 6 months
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- Telephone:
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- Job Reference:
- NF290498
- Job ID:
- 217791994
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