Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Manager (Funding Policy and Practice)

We have two permanent opportunities available.

Working as part of a small team, alongside an EDI funding manager and led by the Head of EDI Funding, you'll be located in the strategy implementation team within the Funding Strategy, Communications and Impact Directorate. Together we will develop EDI practice, tools, advice and guidance to support colleagues and the organisation to imbed deliverables and drive progress towards the new strategy commitments 'It starts with Community', ensuring the success of our Equity based approach, throughout the UK

Focussing your activity on grant-making processes and organisational performance, you will ensure delivery of our strategic EDI ambitions to deliver equitable and inclusive grant-making. You will use your great communication skills to engage colleagues and deliver EDI concepts and tools to support our funding priorities across decision making spaces. You will be able to analyse and interpret sensitive or complex information and data to identify key specific issues, barriers and developing trends. Collaborating with EDI leads, you will work Fund wide to ensure the delivery and progress towards the new strategy commitments via regular communications including written work, outreach, presenting and other means of engagement.

You will:

· Act as the key point of contact and resource for teams connecting and aligning EDI activity to the overall Fund EDI mission, facilitating consistency, common understanding and progression.

· Establish and coordinate resource to drive delivery and ensure appropriate monitoring and evaluation methods are employed for all EDI activities

· Map and collate learning on practice activity and identify key specific issues, barriers and developing trends via an equity, diversity and inclusion lens, collaborating with EDI leads where available.

· You will keep up to date with best practice, including legislative requirements and be committed to your own professional development, using this wider knowledge to improve and develop organisational knowledge.

· Ensure the consistent implementation of EDI initiatives in all funding portfolios, building positive connections and influencing effectively at all levels

· As part of a dispersed team, you can be based at any of our regional offices (with options for home-based hybrid working, as appropriate) across the UK, with an expectation of intermittent UK-wide travel

Interview Date: 15th and 16^th April

Location: We have a hybrid approach to working, work pattern and location will be agreed with the successful candidate. The role can be based at any of our UK offices, these are Belfast, Birmingham, Cardiff, Exeter, Glasgow, Leeds, London, Newcastle and Newtown.

If you would like an informal conversation about the role specifically, please contact: [email protected] and copy in [email protected] . Informal conversations will be held between 1^st and 4^th of April.

Any questions about the recruitment process, please email: [email protected] 

Essential:

• Professional or lived understanding of issues relating Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
• Experience of delivering Equity, Diversity and Inclusion concepts in an organisational setting
• Detailed understanding of grant-making process, policies, and practice.
• Excellent communicator able to widely engage, connect and maintain  relationships
• Ability to work strategically and flexibly across diverse teams, to drive and deliver change

Desirable:

• Ability to analyse, interpret and present information to a range of audiences
• Understanding the policy and political differences across the UK
• Evidence of professional development in the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

Equity, Diversity and Inclusion  

Communities in the UK come in all shapes and sizes. National Lottery funding is for everyone – therefore, we are committed to equity, diversity and inclusion and we work hard to ensure our funding reaches where it is needed.  

We also believe our people should represent the communities, organisations and individuals we work with. That’s why The National Lottery Community Fund is committed to being an inclusive employer and a great place to work. We recognise and celebrate the fact that our people come from diverse backgrounds. We positively welcome applications from people from ethnic minority backgrounds, people with disabilities or longstanding health conditions, people who are LGBTQ+, and people from different socio-economic and educational backgrounds, as well as people of all ages. 

As a Disability Confident Employer, we take a proactive approach in making reasonable adjustments, if needed, throughout the recruitment process and during employment. (This can be related to a physical and mental health condition.)