Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Manager
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Job no: 547838
Work type: Full time
Site: Redditch
Categories: HR/People
Location: Worcestershire
Salary: Up to £60,000pa plus aligned Company Benefits
Business Area: Halfords Support Centre
The (Equity, Diversity and Inclusion) ED&I manager is responsible for developing and implementing the ED&I strategy for Halfords and championing ED&I initiatives across the group.
The ED&I manager will lead on the ED&I agenda and work with senior leaders, colleagues, and interest groups to promote ED&I across the organisation, and to measure it’s impact.
The ED&I manager reports into the Talent Director and will be a member of the Talent Leadership Team and the wider Halfords People Team.
Key Accountabilities
- Build, socialise and maintain the ED&I strategy
- Design and implement initiatives that will have a positive impact on ED&I within the Halfords Group
- Coach, guide and support our managers in understanding, promoting and role modelling inclusive behaviors in Halfords
- Working with our people team, review and update all ED&I related policies
- Devise actions, activities and projects to help us deliver our ED&I goals
- Working with the respective CofE/Business functions, define the goals for each touchpoint and business area
- Measure, track and report on ED&I goals and metrics and provide insight to prompt further action
- Support in the writing of the ED&I element of the Company’s Annual Report
- Lead the Halfords ED&I Council
- Coordinate the running of Halfords Colleague Network Groups (CNG’s)
- With the support of the CNG’s, organize ED&I events and celebrations
- Identify ED&I training requirements, being the SME for content design for these programmes
- Work with outside agencies and charities furthering the ED&I cause
- Champion ED&I in Halfords and communicate regularly to our colleagues and stakeholders
- Develop and lead stakeholder management, communication and change plans associated with designated initiatives and programmes. Work with respective HRBPs, Corp Communications and/or change management partners on engagement strategies to ensure timely and effective communication and adoption of programmes and initiatives
- In addition, lead on the Charity work within Halfords and work with our Charity partnerships to maximise our charity fundraising
Key Skills & Experience
Experience
- Experience delivering business transformation in ED&I through:
- Building ED&I strategies
- Designing and implementing ED&I programmes/initiatives
- Tracking ED&I metrics
- Designing ED&I training
- Experience working in Agile environments
Knowledge, Skills
- Subject matter expertise in ED&I
- Understanding of ED&I related employment law
- Superior verbal and written communication and presentation skills
- Strong influencing skills and stakeholder management
- Demonstrated Project Management skills
- Delivering business transformation
- Excellent facilitation of small, medium, and large audiences
- Ability to work with the senior leadership teams to develop solutions for business needs
- Strong collaboration skills/Co-creation
- Ability to work unsupervised and demonstrate initiative
- Ability to work flexibly
- Charity Manager specific skillset:
- Account management of existing and new charity relationships
- Working with internal teams to build communication strategy across relevant channels
- Planning and hosting charity events
- Budget-management & spend decision-making
- Volunteer-management
- Stakeholder Management & reporting
- Passion for positive impact
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