Salary: £46,484 to £56,921 per annum
Location: Sutherland Building, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, NE1 8ST, UK
Contract: Full Time
Applications close: 11:59pm, Sunday 12th January 2025
About the role
Are you passionate about driving meaningful change in Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI)? Join our EDI team at Northumbria to deliver transformative EDI initiatives that align with our bold University Strategy. As an EDI Manager, you will play a pivotal role in fostering a workplace and community that positively welcomes diversity and embeds equality, diversity and inclusion into everything that we do. You will develop, lead, and manage a diverse range of projects and initiatives that champion EDI and propel the University forward on its journey to becoming an even more inclusive institution.
As an experienced professional in the EDI field, you will bring a wealth of knowledge from working in large, complex organisations, and you’ll thrive in building strong relationships with stakeholders at every level. Your expertise will drive sustainable change, ensuring that we reduce inequality and foster a culture of belonging for all. You’ll have the chance to lead projects, drive the achievement of equality benchmarks and charter marks, and deliver real, lasting change that resonates across the entire organisation.
To be successful, you’ll need excellent communication and report-writing skills, and the ability to deliver high-quality written content across multiple channels. You’ll also have proven experience in managing multiple EDI projects, ensuring they align with our strategic priorities.
In line with our flexible working approach we are happy to consider applications from candidates seeking to work full or part time. For an informal chat about the role, please reach out to Rachel Brown, Director of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion at rachel.l.brown@northumbria.ac.uk.
Further information is available in the Job Description here or below.
About us
Northumbria University is a research-intensive university that unlocks potential for all. We change lives regionally, nationally, and internationally through education and research, tackling the global challenges of our age to transform society and the economy. Find out why we were named Times Higher Education’s University of the Year in 2022 and Modern University of the Year in The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2025.
Northumbria recorded the biggest rise of any UK university for research power in the Research Excellence Framework for the second time in 2021 and is now ranked top 25 in the UK for this measure.
One of the largest universities in the UK with over 37,000 students from more than 140 countries, filled with world-leading research, award-winning partnerships, and students at the heart of an outstanding experience. Discover more about us.
Northumbria University is a great place to work. We empower our exceptional people to achieve shared ambitions and promote a positive work life balance. We offer a wide range of benefits including excellent pension schemes, flexible working, a generous holiday entitlement, continued commitment to your learning and development and more.
Our Northumbria Values are guiding principles that define who we are, what we do and what is important to us. Our Values are: Academic Excellence; Innovation; Inclusivity; Collaboration; and Ambition.
Our Behaviours describe how we do things and how we work together at Northumbria, reflecting our culture and our decision-making. Our Behaviours are: We listen and learn, we support one another to success, we respect everyone and their contributions, we trust in ourselves and each other and we are bold.
Our Values and Behaviours were co-created by colleagues from a range of roles across the University, who worked collaboratively to consider what it feels like to work for Northumbria, and where we need to continue to transform together to achieve what’s important to us.
Please visit Our Values and Behaviours page to find out more.
We are an on-campus organisation where colleagues work regular patterns of hours and on campus, with some flexibility on the timing of their hours and the location of their work in discussion with their manager. Our campus locations include our City and Coach Lane Campuses in Newcastle upon Tyne and our London campus.
Northumbria University is committed to creating an inclusive culture where we take pride in, and value, the diversity of our staff. We encourage and welcome applications from all members of the community. The University holds bronze Athena Swan and Race Equality Charter awards in recognition of our commitment to advancing gender and race equality, we are a Disability Confident Leader and are participating in the Stonewall Diversity Champion Programme. We also hold the HR Excellence in Research award for implementing the concordat supporting the career Development of Researchers and are members of the Euraxess initiative to deliver information and support to professional researchers. The University has implemented a range of flexible working arrangements, and we are happy to explore candidate requirements as part of the recruitment process.
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- Salary Offer £46,484 to £56,921 per annum
- Application Pack Northumbria-University_Equality-Diversity-and-Inclusion-Manager_JD_Dec-24.docx
