Senior Partner – Equality, Diversity & Inclusion

Senior Partner – Equality, Diversity & Inclusion

£37,284 – £43,286 pa (pro rata for part-time)

Hours: Full Time/ Part Time/ Job Share will be considered

Contract: Permanent or Fixed Term available

Location: Huntingdon

(We offer a flexible, agile, hybrid working pattern where you can work from home, as well as from Cambridgeshire Fire & Rescue Service and other locations around Cambridgeshire, to meet the team and organisations’ needs)

The Role:

Are you an HR or L&OD professional who would like to specialise in ED&I? Do you have experience in ED&I and community engagement?

This is an exciting opportunity to specialise in ED&I in a fun, forward-thinking Fire and Rescue Service. If you like every day being different and want to work with our dynamic front line colleagues, support teams and the community then this role would be great for you! There are so many opportunities to help us build on our great culture and have some adventures along the way, working for a Service that’s truly lives its values of welcome, dignity and respect.

You will play a key role in developing colleagues within the Service to have great inclusive conversations and bring our values and behaviours to life.  Leading ED&I focused development, networks, working groups, compliance, events and community engagement, you will work with both operational and support colleagues as well as our community, building those relationships to have open and honest conversations on a variety of topics and building the Service’s knowledge and understanding of all things ED&I.

The Senior Partner – Equality, Diversity & Inclusion role sits in the People Group and has one direct report, an ED&I Officer.

About You:

The Service is a fantastic, fun and unique organisation to be part of and your drive, experience and knowledge will allow you to build on and move forward our ED&I offering. You will be a people person who, with your open and honest approach, will thrive on spending time with both our operational and non-operational colleagues, as well as the wider community, at our many different locations throughout Cambridgeshire.  Your ability to build on these relationships will allow you to really understand the Service and how best to tailor our ED&I offering.

If you do not fully meet the requirements but believe that you can clearly demonstrate in other ways the range of valuable skills, experience and knowledge recognised as relevant and important to this role, we would welcome hearing from you.

About us:

Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service (CFRS) is one of the best Fire and Rescue Services in the country. In our last inspection by Her Majesty’s Inspectorate for Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services (HMICFRS) we were noted as good, specifically around promoting the right values and culture, getting the right people with the right skills, ensuring fairness, promoting diversity, managing performance, and developing leaders.

Our vision is for a safe community where there are no preventable deaths or injuries in fires or other emergencies. To achieve this, we put people at the centre of everything we do. Without our welcoming, friendly, and supportive environment we would not be the Service we are today.

Why work for Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service (CFRS)?

We promote the right values and an inclusive culture by:

• ensuring fairness, promoting diversity and developing colleagues to achieve their potential
• being Disability Confident employer
• providing health and well-being support
• offering flexible, agile hybrid working
• having Inclusion ambassadors, a network and working groups for protected characteristics

Our offer:

• Employee Assistance Programme
• Access to Health Cash Plan
• A competitive pension scheme
• Access to Blue Light Discount at 100s of stores & events
• Family friendly policies – including flexible working
• Great Learning & Development Opportunities
• 28 days annual leave each year plus bank holidays, increasing with service
• Parking (site specific)
• Flexible, agile, hybrid working

To find out more about this opportunity, including accessing the Recruitment Pack, and about working for us please click here: Cambsfire.gov.uk

How to Apply

To apply for this Senior Partner – Equality, Diversity & Inclusion opportunity please send your CV to recruitment@cambsfire.gov.uk

We have the right to close this advert at any time