39089 - Senior Diversity and Inclusion Manager

We welcome and encourage applications from everyone, including groups currently underrepresented in our workforce and pride ourselves as being an employer of choice. To find out more about how we champion diversity and inclusion in the workplace, visit: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-justice/about/equality-and-diversity

Overview of the job  

The Senior Diversity and Inclusion Manager will work collaboratively with a team of staff within the central Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) team, who are responsible for the development and delivery of a programme of work to ensure the staff in our organisation and those in our care are all entitled to fair and equal treatment.

The job holder will report to the Head of HQ Diversity and Inclusion. They will have line management responsibility of 2 band 7 staff. The non-operational post will be HQ based.

They will be accountable for a range of diversity specific matters such as equality performance and disproportionality and will assess progress of many initiatives designed to address discrimination and ensure compliance with the Public-Sector Equality Duty (PSED) of April 2011 created under the Equality Act 2010, as it applies to HMPPS.  

The post holder must have a good understanding of the complex needs of staff and service users from all nine protected characteristics (age, sex, disability, race, sexual orientation/gender reassignment, pregnancy and maternity, religion and belief and marriage and civil partnership) and appreciate the sensitive nature of the subject matters dealt with.  

Summary

The post holder will provide management oversight and direction to the Head of HQ Diversity and Inclusion, within the Diversity and Inclusion Team. They will provide support in ensuring all non-operational directorates within HMPPS embed the strategic priorities within the HMPPS Equalities Strategy.

They will be accountable for a range of diversity and inclusion specific matters such as equality performance, disproportionality as it occurs for staff and service users, to prisons and HQ Groups. 

They will need to work effectively with both internal and external stakeholders, to ensure constructive engagement in the development of interventions and policies to identify and address unfairness in the treatment of staff and service users and support the embedding of a culture in which diversity and inclusion remains core to the values of the organisation.

They will also provide expert advice to policy leads, OD Managers, HRBPs, HQ D&I SPOCs, senior leads in non-operational directorates to help embed diversity and inclusion in policy development and operational delivery.

The post holder will provide briefing and responses to PQs and official correspondence. They will ensure that senior HMPPS staff understand and can evidence their duty to 'pay due regard to equality'.

They will have the responsibility for leading conversations with the Gypsy, Roma and Traveller stakeholder group and owning delivery of the GRT Lammy action plan. They will also oversee the implementation of diversity and inclusion grant funded projects.

Responsibilities, Activities and Duties

The job holder will be required to carry out the following responsibilities, activities and duties:

• Lead for HMPPS on the provision of expert advice to Directors, Head of Groups, and Ministers in relation to diversity and inclusion.
• Provide submissions, advice, briefing, responses to Parliamentary Questions, Ministers Cases and FOI requests relating to HMPPS policy on equalities issues.
• Be accountable for identification of any unfairness or disproportionality through the monitoring of management information in diversity and inclusion data.
• Work with internal stakeholders including HQ SPOCs to identify areas where interventions and guidance are needed to ensure fair and equal treatment for staff and service users.
• Lead a programme of work to provide interventions and solutions to disproportionate outcomes for particular groups of staff and service users.
• Ensure effective engagement with internal and external stakeholders to ensure the work of the Diversity and Inclusion Team is understood and aligned to current thinking in the field and that key stakeholders are involved in the development of diversity and inclusion tools and guidance on policy.
• Provide advice to policy leads, OD Managers and HRBPs to help policy development and operational delivery of staff Equality at a strategic level.
• Represent Head of Diversity and Inclusion as appropriate.
• Carry out line management responsibilities of 2 band 7 staff in accordance with HMPPS policies and procedures paying full attention to the performance management and development of staff on policy.
• Contribute to the HMPPS HQ flexible policy resource.

The duties/responsibilities listed above describe the post as it is at present and is not intended to be exhaustive. The job holder is expected to accept reasonable alterations and additional tasks of a similar level that may be necessary. Significant adjustments may require re-examination under the Job Evaluation Scheme and shall be discussed in the first instance with the job holder.

Behaviours

• Seeing the Big Picture
• Changing and Improving
• Communicating and Influencing
• Working Together
• Developing Self and Others

Experience

• An understanding of the broader national diversity and inclusion agenda in order to provide strategic direction to the work of HMPPS and identify best practice developments in the field and foresee potential areas of concern.
• At least 5 years of experience in managing a number of projects within a team running concurrently and being responsible for scoping the projects and allocation resources, monitoring progress against agreed milestone and ensuring projects are brought to a successful conclusion.

Ability

• Excellent drafting skills.
• Sound knowledge and understanding of equality legislation.
• Oversight or management of a change programme.
• Stakeholder engagement experience.