Group Inclusion, Diversity and Cultural Development Lead

Role Purpose

• To act as Centre of Excellence and lead on the development and implementation of the Group Inclusion, Diversity and Belonging strategy
• To support the Group Director Employee Experience to create and deliver global cultural and behavioural change interventions that ensures we create an environment where our people can thrive and deliver our strategy and goals
• To ensure all employees and groups globally have a voice that is heard and reflected in solutions delivered

Key Accountabilities

• To develop and lead implementation of the global Inclusion, Diversity and Belonging strategy
• Work with the Group Director Employee Experience to create, deliver and support cultural and behavioural change interventions in particular to support development of an inclusive culture
• Create global analytics and KPIs that will inform plans to ensure we meet our Group strategic goals and legislative requirements globally for Inclusion, Diversity and Belonging
• Provide expert advice globally including research and sharing of best practice
• Create global employee voice network groups and work with them to ensure all employees and groups have a voice in the organisation
• To create impactful cultural and behavioural solutions that will deliver a demonstrable improvement taking into account cultural context in our global markets
• Coach and develop global leadership knowledge and capability in inclusion, diversity and belonging
• Promote and create understanding across the organisation of the value of inclusion, diversity and belonging
• Assess the impact our policies, processes and working practices have on diversity and inclusion and work with Centres of Excellence globally to shape and implement change that will drive improvement
• Create positive action interventions to support under‐represented groups
• Celebrate diversity and inclusion through organised events and campaigns
• Support the Group Director Employee Experience with the co-ordination of the behavioural change Centre of Excellence, maintain the change tools library and provide guidance to projects on behavioural change
• Work with the Group Director Employee Experience, Employee Experience Adviser, Employee Engagement Adviser and HR COEs to ensure coherence across the spectrum of interactions with our people

Key Competencies

• Functional knowledge – delivering innovative I,D&B strategies and cultural development programmes
• Business expertise – commercially savy and can flex from being pioneering to traditional as appropriate to meet business area need and priorities
• Leadership – to create inspiring vision and inclusive culture
• Customer focus – proactive stakeholder engagement and management
• Personal impact – positive and strong communicator, role model collaborator, able to influence senior stakeholders to take action

Experience & Qualifications

• Subject matter expert in Inclusion, Diversity and Belonging (ID&B)
• Able to create and implement global strategy
• Good knowledge of global legislation relating to ID&B
• Able to understand global, sector and function priorities and create realistic and impactful solutions that will meet the needs of all stakeholders
• Excellent facilitation, coaching, communication and influencing skills to drive cultural and behavioural change
• Understanding of culture in our different global markets
• Ability to create quality written materials e.g. reports, frameworks, toolkits, training content
• Able to use data analytics to inform strategy and policy to ensure achievement of strategic goals
• Experience of connecting a wide reaching range of activity to create a coherent approach

Why Join QinetiQ?

As we continue to grow into new markets around the world, there’s never been a more exciting time to join QinetiQ. The formula for success is our appetite for innovation, courage to take on a wide variety of complex challenges.

You’ll experience a unique working environment where teams from different backgrounds, disciplines and experience enjoy collaborating widely and openly as we undertake this exciting and rewarding journey. Through effective teamwork, and pulling together, you’ll get to experience what happens when we all share different perspectives, blend disciplines, and link technologies; constantly discovering new ways of solving complex problems in an diverse and inclusive environment where you can be authentic, feel valued and realise your full potential.

Joining QinetiQ offers you an opportunity to work on a broad range of interesting defence-based projects with vast career progression across a global organisation in addition to competitive personal and professional benefits. You’ll receive highly competitive salary and benefits package: our basic salaries are very attractive as we constantly review what’s happening in the market. The range of benefits that we offer include, flexible working, generous holiday entitlements, Health Cash Plan, Private Medical Insurance and Dental Insurance and much more.

About QinetiQ

As a company of over 6,000 dedicated professionals, we are a world-centre of excellence in research and development and act as a catalyst for fast-track innovation, offering outstanding experimentation facilities, and technical, engineering and scientific expertise. QinetiQ is made up of dedicated experts in defence, aerospace, security and related markets, all working together to explore new ways of protecting what matters most. Being part of QinetiQ means being central to the safety and security of the world around us. Partnering with our customers, we help to save lives; reduce risks to society; and maintain the global infrastructure on which we all depend. Come and find out how you can play a role.

Please note that all applicants must be eligible for SC clearance: UKSV National Security Vetting Solution: guidance for applicants - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)