Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Senior Advisor

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 234277**Salary**:

- £32,438**Grade**:

- Senior Executive Officer- Senior Adviser**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Type of role**:

- Environment and Sustainability**Working pattern**:

- Full-time, Job share, Part-time**Number of posts**:

- 1Contents

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**Benefits**:
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- East Midlands (England), East of England, London (region), North East England, North West England, South East England, South West England, West Midlands (England), Yorkshire and the HumberAbout the job

**Summary**:

- This position is based Nationally**Job description**:
The team

Do you have a passion for nature and the environment? Do you want to make a real difference and secure significant environmental gains in the present and the future? Do you enjoy working in a team?

If this appeals to you, a career at Natural England offers rewarding opportunities to secure environmental improvements and play your part in creating a better future for people and nature.

Natural England is an executive non-departmental public body, sponsored by the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs. We are the Government’s advisor for the natural environment, playing a vital role in delivering the Government’s 25 Year Environment Plan, an ambitious vision which brings new opportunities to protect and enhance and to achieve real outcomes for the environment.

**Benefits**

Wherever possible Natural England supports flexible working to help you achieve a work-life balance that works for you and us, together with generous leave allowances (33 days per year pro rata) to help you maintain your health and wellbeing.

Natural England provides excellent opportunities for career progression, training and development tailored to your role. From induction to ongoing learning and development, everyone in Natural England is supported to develop their skills and capabilities. Everyone has 10 days to devote to personal learning and development, as well as an additional 3 days to volunteer.

Natural England is a fantastic place to work, where difference is celebrated. We’re committed to fairness and equality for all, so you feel valued for who you are and what you do. Our shared values help us work together to benefit the communities we serve. Our thriving employee-led diversity networks support our inclusive culture and contribute to our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion outcomes.

You will have access to a Civil Service Pensions Scheme.

Outside of work, you will have access to a range of other benefits including discounts on shopping vouchers, and a cycle to work scheme, and childcare vouchers. You can also join the Civil Service Sports and Social Club which offers discounts on a range of sports and leisure opportunities as well as hosting social events.

**Locations**

Natural England supports hybrid working, which means that you will have the option to work flexibly from a range of locations, including home, offices and other relevant sites. As a new member of staff, you’ll be formally linked to one of our 25 offices across England and the expectation is that you will be able to access your local office and be part of the community of staff in that geographic area.

We do not support working from an overseas location at any time.

We want Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) to be central to everything that we do as an organisation, and we have big ambitions. We are committed to being an inclusive organisation and this new role has been created to support the development of a new Inclusion Strategy, and the delivery of our EDI action plan and wider EDI programme of activity. It will be pivotal in ensuring that successful delivery of our EDI ambitions is supported and driven by clear and compelling evidence, and that we can demonstrate the value of our EDI work.

This role sits within our EDI Team but will work across organisational boundaries with a particular focus on our Connecting People with Nature Programme and other external facing Inclusion priorities.

We are seeking an individual with passion, who thrives working at pace, whilst managing different and sometimes competing priorities to deliver desired outcomes. In doing so, this role will directly support NE values and ambitions in the creation of a truly inclusive organisation which represents the communities we serve.

**Key tasks and responsibilities**
- You will design and develop success criteria for NE’s Inclusion Strategy, EDI Action Plan and wider EDI programme deliverables, which you will use to support implementation of, and embed, EDI approaches throughout the organisation.
- Working collaboratively with colleagues from across NE and the Defra EDI team you will provide robust evaluation of the impact of NE’s EDI work.
- Using this evaluation, you will be able to effectively interpret our data and develop a compelling narrative around outcomes, making recommendations for further acti