Job Title: Diversity & Inclusion Lead
Location: Bristol/Leicester/Plymouth/Rosyth + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive, Bonus, Car Allowance, Family PMI + Benefits
Role Type: Full time and Permanent
Role ID: SF60068
At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as the Diversity & Inclusion Lead at one of our major sites situated throughout the UK.
The role
As the Diversity & Inclusion Lead, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll support the transformation of our people experience globally, specifically in developing strategies and programs that foster an inclusive workplace, support employee networks, and strengthen social impact efforts. Driving the actions needed to make real meaningful change.
Day-to-day, you’ll collaborate with leadership and SMEs, this role will help to build trust and our people to feel valued. Reporting to Head of Culture & Engagement with a dotted line to Group Sustainability Director, this role will ensure close collaboration between the two areas, creating a strong, productive, and invaluable connection. You’ll also:
• Provide thought leadership and strategic thinking around Inclusion and Social Sustainability, enabling others to understand and engage with a future vision that benefits business outcomes
• Work with our HR Comms and People Experience team to develop and execute internal and external communications strategy that promotes inclusion and social sustainability initiatives
• Track and analysing data on set metrics and indicators, providing insights and data driven recommendations to leadership ensuring informed action can be taken
• Work with the relevant parts of the business to define and agree key initiatives to deliver strategic priorities, including setting simple achievable targets and seeing them through to delivery
• Collaborate with HR, the sustainability team, and other relevant parts of the business to embed inclusion and social objectives into core business processes and policies
This role is full time and is adaptable and can be delivered from various locations including Bristol, Leicester, Plymouth & Rosyth. The role also requires regular travel across a range of internal and customer sites on a weekly/monthly basis alongside home working arrangements.
Agile working may be available to employees in some instances, applying the principles of fairness and consistency whilst ensuring that the overriding business needs can be appropriately met. We are happy to consider flexible, blended working, including part-time, condensed hours, and job sharing. Please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.
Essential experience of the Diversity & Inclusion Lead:
• Experience working in a related subject e.g., L&D, ED&I, Social Sustainability, EX or Employee Engagement. Driving and delivering Inclusion, Social and communities initiatives, preferably globally in a complex, multidisciplinary business
• A track record of successfully implementing new approaches and activities from conception and design to in place and working, both directly and through others
• Experience working within defined governance processes and meeting legislative requirements. With a strong understanding of issues and best practices relating to topics such as, social responsibility, communities, diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility
• Strong communication and influencing skills. Able to create and present practical and actionable evidence-led insights to leaders with experience of working effectively and collaboratively with multiple stakeholders, across borders
• To be a creative thinker. A positive, engaged, and passionate self-starter. Able to think at a strategic level developing practical solutions and partnering the business with a hands-on approach
Qualifications for the Diversity & Inclusion Lead:
We value difference and don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and/or willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.
Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
What we offer
- Generous holiday allowance
- Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
- Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
- Employee share scheme
- Employee shopping savings portal
- Payment of Professional Fees
- Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
- Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
- ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
Babcock International
For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.
We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email careers@babcockinternational.com with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.
Closing date:
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