Inclusion and Engagement Lead

Manchester City Council has a long-standing commitment to equality and diversity, ensuring that services, facilities, and opportunities are fair and inclusive for all. This role is based within Manchester City Council’s Inclusion and Engagement Team and will operate within an evolving Centre of Excellence.

The role focuses on providing advice, guidance, and support on equality, equity, and human rights to Manchester City Council (MCC)). The goal is to foster a culture of inclusion and drive systemic change at all levels.

Reporting to the Integrated Head of Involvement and Engagement, the role involves developing, supporting, and monitoring policies, procedures, and frameworks whilst also ensuring organisational compliance.

Collaboration with internal services and external partners is essential, with a focus on advancing MCC’s Equality Objectives for 2024-2028. These objectives prioritise promoting inclusive employment, enhancing community involvement and engagement, and delivering accessible services.

Equity, Inclusion and Engagement is central to delivery of the organisation’s strategies, working closely with public health and supported by core functions including HRODT, knowledge and intelligence, contracts, project management and business support.

You will be an equalities and inclusion expert with experience of applying your knowledge of equality and human rights legislation practically to inform the design and delivery of strategy, policy and services. You will be able to provide guidance and advice to a wide range of stakeholders, including voluntary and community groups, ensuring that you find opportunities to work collaboratively to build the lived experience of people who experience inequity into tangible programmes of work.

You will be knowledgeable about current equality and human rights issues (including detailed knowledge of the Public Sector Equality Duty) and how they apply to public services, particularly local government and keen to drive positive change to address inequalities.

You will be a highly skilled project manager who has a track record of getting things done in a timely manner experienced at managing multiple projects with varied stakeholders.

You will be a good team player that deals with sensitive and complex matters on a daily basis.

In accordance with Home Office guidance, successful candidates must evidence their right to work in the UK before commencement of employment. This is not a role we consider to be eligible for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route based on Manchester City Council policy. Candidates are therefore encouraged to consider their own right to work options without the requirement for Manchester City Council sponsorship. 

We’re the local government authority for Manchester, and have teams across the city helping to make this a great place to live for everyone. We’re proud to do local government differently, in a city with an international reputation for diversity, creativity, culture and passion. 

When you join us, you’re joining a team of over 7,000 council staff helping to make our ambition for Manchester a reality. Whatever your role, you’ll be supporting our residents and communities to be the best they can be, and helping to build a Manchester that's fairer for everyone who lives, works, volunteers, studies or plays here. 

To make our ambition a reality, every person we recruit needs to play their its part. It takes a certain type of behaviour, attitude and way of working to get Manchester where it wants to be. Our people and partners have agreed five ‘behaviours’ – the grounding for how we must work together and treat one another:

• We take time to listen and understand
• We work together and trust each other
• We show that we value our differences and treat each other fairly
• We ‘own it’ and we’re not afraid to try new things
• We’re proud and passionate about Manchester

A career with us means you can be yourself, thrive, and build the career your talent and ambition deserve.

Creating an inclusive team at Manchester City Council 

At Manchester City Council, we strive to create a fair and inclusive workplace that is as diverse as the communities we serve.  We want to further increase the diversity of our workforce, in particular the number of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic staff and disabled staff at all levels of the Council. This advert is open to all applicants, and we would particularly encourage applications from candidates identifying with one or both of those characteristics.   

If you want to find out more about the role, our ways of working, flexible arrangements or any workplace adjustments, please let us know by emailing [email protected]. If you are invited to interview, we will ask you if you require any adjustments for you to best demonstrate your suitability for the role in the interview process.   

Guaranteed Interview Scheme

As part of our commitment to inclusion, we offer guaranteed interviews for specific groups of people. To qualify, you'll need to meet the minimum requirements for the role, and identify with one of the below criteria:

• Members of the Armed Forces and veterans
• Are currently in care, or have previously been in care
• If you consider yourself to be disabled or if you have a long-term health condition

Accessibility 

As a Disability Confident Employer, we provide support for employees with physical or mental-health conditions, a disability or neurodiversity. Our workplaces are accessible by design, and we make workplace adjustments including providing aids, adaptations and equipment. These, combined with our flexible working policies such as disability-related leave, enable our employees to perform their role, thrive and be their authentic selves in work. 

When you join us 

We want everyone to be able to be themselves at work and give their best. If you need additional support to undertake the duties of the role, we’ll make every effort to source any necessary aids, adaptations or equipment. If, however, any task proves to be unachievable, we will look at redesigning parts of the role. 

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