Consultant - Gender & Inclusion

2 weeks ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom British Council Full time

Role Purpose:

(i)To support the implementation of the Cultural Relations gender equality strategy; (ii)To support the professional development and learning of the Cultural Engagement team to address gender equality through planning, coordination and delivery of training and supporting the sharing of good practice; (iii) To support the design and implementation projects and programmes that address gender equality by providing advice to business development and delivery teams across Cultural Engagement. and managing an external Associate Advisers. (iv) To work with Marketing teams to ensure high quality content and evidence for internal and external communications of work on gender equality and empowerment of women and girls.

Role Context:


Promoting gender equality is fundamental to delivering our cultural relations work in terms of contributing to the UK's commitments and leadership in gender equality, delivering effective programmes and meeting our legal obligations.

It is also an increasing and often non-negotiable requirement of funders and partners.

Cultural Engagement has made a commitment to ensure all programmes make a significant contribution to gender equality by 2025 which will drive a greater focus on gender equality outcomes in our grant-funded work as well as meeting the expectations of our funders and partners.


This role support Cultural Engagement's contribution to the British Council's Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Anti-Racism Action Plan through mainstreaming EDI in our programmes, products and services.


Main Accountabilities:

Strategy & Planning

  • Provides high quality analysis of global and UK trends in addressing gender equality and empowerment of women and girls to contribute to the development of the British Council's strategies and plans.

Relationship and Stakeholder Management & Business Development

  • Develops and maintains excellent relationships and communication with internal stakeholders including programme leads, business development leads, Regional EDI leads and the Diversity Unit to build a clear understanding of their needs and experiences, to enable effective advice and tailored support to meet gender equality commitments.
  • Builds reputation, relationships and partnerships with key gender equality stakeholders relevant to our programmes and the UK sector
  • Contributes to concepts and technical proposals for smallerscale new business opportunities that focus on or make a significant contribution to gender equality.

Professional Services Expertise

  • Supports the development and implementation of systems and processes across Cultural Engagement to monitor and meet our gender equality commitments across all funding streams
  • Provides professional advice, guidance and opportunitydevelopment for the scoping, contextual analysis (including gender analysis) design and delivery of smallerscale transformative programmes that focus on gender equality.
  • Provides professional advice, guidance and support to integrate gender perspectives and outcomes for women and girls/gender transformative outcomes into smaller scale programmes.
  • Actively builds knowledge and professional networks to maintain an excellent understanding of relevant developments, stakeholders and opinion formers in the field of gender equality and empowerment of women and girls (in both the UK and internationally), to support the creation of high quality product/project/programme proposals and position the Council as a credible authority in this area.
  • Manages and develops information, case studies, track record and capability statements of the British Council's programmes that contribute to gender equality/empowerment of women and girls across Cultural Engagement to support our narrative, communications with key stakeholders and business development activity
  • Organises, design and contributes to activities to share good practice internally on gender equality
  • Works with Marketing team to ensure quality content to support external and internal communications including for international events with gender equality themes.
  • Manages the development of research and thought leadership materials and represent the British Council externally, to enhance its reputation as a credible authority in gender equality and to promote intercultural understanding/new collaborative opportunities.
  • Contributes to the development and delivery of training, support and knowledgesharing activities to build skills and capability in gender mainstreaming and the empowerment of women and girls across Cultural Engagement (in the UK and overseas).
  • Supports the management of networks of associates, consultants and relevant partners to for the British Council's work in gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls.

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

  • To actively contribute to an inclusive and antiracist organisational culture, being aware of your own biases, and taking

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