Senior Diversity Networks and Employee Voice Associate

at  Financial Conduct Authority

Salary: National ranging from £43,000 - £60,000 and London from £46,400 to £65,000
This is an exciting opportunity to work as an integral part of the Culture and Conduct team, and positively impact employee experience across the Financial Conduct Authority.
The Human Resources (HR) Division is made up of a number of expert service teams whose role it is to help the FCA deliver its people priorities.
This role sits within the Culture and Conduct Department, which plays a key role in creating a brilliant employee experience and an inclusive working culture for our people.

The Department covers core functions around:

• Diversity, Equity and Inclusion - delivery of the FCA’s aspirations to foster a diverse and inclusive working environment that supports colleagues to be their authentic selves at work
• Employee Voice and Engagement: Creating an exceptional employee experience through ensuring that our colleague voice channels enable all of our people to feel they are involved and can tell us what matters to them most
• HR Business Partnering: Delivering a strategic HR Business Partner model which is insight led and adds value to the organisation
• Community engagement – leading our approach to how we engage with our local communities

What you will be doing
This an exciting opportunity to work as an integral part of the Culture and Conduct Department. You will play a leading role in ensuring that colleague voice is integral to the way we work in FCA through working collaboratively with our Staff Consultative Committee and Diversity Networks.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Working with our Staff Consultative Committee to ensure that employee voice is effectively heard in the organisation. You will play a key role in ensuring that our processes and approach enable FCA to successfully represent the needs of colleagues across the organisation
• Leading key projects and work related to the operational running of the Staff Consultative Committee, for example elections processes and reviews of core governance documents
• Leading the ongoing development of our HR looking forward to ensure that we engage and consult with the Staff Consultative Committee and Diversity Networks on key matters impacting our people
• Leading the relationship with our Diversity Network Groups to leverage their position as strategic influencers and partners and showcase their work effectively. This includes maintaining strategic oversight of Network plans to ensure alignment with our wider DE&I Programme, working with the Networks to oversee financial spend and chairing our Diversity Network Forum
• Organising events and communications in partnership with the networks and DE&I team to raise Network profile
• Ongoing development and maintenance of all supporting governance documents related to Networks which ensure the effective operation of our groups
• Working across the wider team as required to support particular peaks in activity, for example the employee survey. This provides a great opportunity to build wider relationships and develop your skill set across a range of HR disciplines

What you will get from the role?

• Opportunity to work as part of a high-performing HR function which is valued across the organisation
• Opportunity and support to develop as a HR Professional, learning from other colleagues and accessing our suite of learning opportunities
• You will enjoy a unique insight into the financial services industry, with the opportunity to have real impact whilst working collaboratively with a range of stakeholders to make FCA a great place to work.

Our competitive flexible benefits scheme gives you the opportunity to create a personalised benefits package, tailored to suit your lifecycle. You can use this allowance to purchase additional benefits such as dental or cycle to work or you have the option top up your base salary by taking this as cash.

Core benefits that you will receive as standard are:

• 25 days holiday per year plus bank holidays
• Private healthcare with Bupa
• A non-contributory Pension of at least 8% of basic salary each month (there are several contribution levels that increase depending on your age – up to 12% a month once you reach age 35).
• Life assurance of eight times your basic salary
• Income protection

We support hybrid working which means you will be able to work from home up to 60% of the time over a month with the remainder of your time in one of our three office locations.
The skills and experience you will have
Minimum

We are a signatory to the Government’s Disability Confident scheme. This means that we will offer an interview to disabled candidates entering under the scheme, who best meet the minimum criteria for a role.

• Demonstrable evidence of stakeholder management, including at a senior level and managing complex stakeholder relationships
• Evidence of managing projects using project management techniques
• Experience of working with staff forums, trade unions and/or networks

Essential

• Strong knowledge and understanding of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in organisations (you are not required to be a DEI expert but must demonstrate sound understanding of DE&I)
• Strong communications skills

About the FCA
The FCA regulates the conduct of 50,000 firms in the UK to ensure our financial markets are honest, fair and competitive. We do this to make sure markets work well for individuals, businesses and the economy as a whole. For more information on what we do, our three-year strategy can be found
here.
The FCA’s Values & Diversity
Our ambition is to cultivate a culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences and similarities enable us to be a better organisation – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation, and delivers better regulation.
The FCA is committed to achieving greater diversity across all levels of the organisations. Given this, we particularly welcome applications from women, disabled and minority ethnic candidates for our Senior Associate role.
Flexible working
We welcome applications from candidates who are looking for flexible arrangements. Many of our staff work flexibly including working part-time, staggered hours, and job shares. We can’t promise to give you exactly what you want but we won’t judge you for asking.
Multi-location
As part of the FCA’s on-going commitment to develop our national presence, most of our vacancies are now open to working in our Edinburgh, Leeds, or London offices. This means that as part of the application process you will be able to select your preference of which office location you would like to work from.

Useful information

• Applications for this role close at 23.59 on 29th September 2024
• This role is graded as Senior Associate - Corporate
• Interviews will take place from 14th October 2024

Got a question?
If you are interested in learning more about the role please contact:
For internal applicants, please contact Linda Bradley at
Linda.Bradley@fca.org.uk
For external applicants, please contact Ifrah Azam at
Ifrah.Azam@fca.org.uk
What to expect from our interview process
If your application is successful you will be invited to complete a case study and competency based interview.
Application support
We want to remove any possible barriers and are committed to providing a wide range of reasonable adjustments so that you can keep the focus on your conversations and be at your best.
If you have an accessibility requirement, disability, or condition that means you might require changes to the recruitment process, please contact your recruiter to discuss this further. Our aim is to make your application as easy and comfortable as possible, and your recruiter will be happy to work with you to make any necessary arrangements where possible.
Please note that all applications must be submitted through our online portal, applications sent via email will not be accepted

Key responsibilities will include:

• Working with our Staff Consultative Committee to ensure that employee voice is effectively heard in the organisation. You will play a key role in ensuring that our processes and approach enable FCA to successfully represent the needs of colleagues across the organisation
• Leading key projects and work related to the operational running of the Staff Consultative Committee, for example elections processes and reviews of core governance documents
• Leading the ongoing development of our HR looking forward to ensure that we engage and consult with the Staff Consultative Committee and Diversity Networks on key matters impacting our people
• Leading the relationship with our Diversity Network Groups to leverage their position as strategic influencers and partners and showcase their work effectively. This includes maintaining strategic oversight of Network plans to ensure alignment with our wider DE&I Programme, working with the Networks to oversee financial spend and chairing our Diversity Network Forum
• Organising events and communications in partnership with the networks and DE&I team to raise Network profile
• Ongoing development and maintenance of all supporting governance documents related to Networks which ensure the effective operation of our groups
• Working across the wider team as required to support particular peaks in activity, for example the employee survey. This provides a great opportunity to build wider relationships and develop your skill set across a range of HR discipline

What you will get from the role?

• Opportunity to work as part of a high-performing HR function which is valued across the organisation
• Opportunity and support to develop as a HR Professional, learning from other colleagues and accessing our suite of learning opportunities
• You will enjoy a unique insight into the financial services industry, with the opportunity to have real impact whilst working collaboratively with a range of stakeholders to make FCA a great place to work

We are a signatory to the Government’s Disability Confident scheme. This means that we will offer an interview to disabled candidates entering under the scheme, who best meet the minimum criteria for a role.

• Demonstrable evidence of stakeholder management, including at a senior level and managing complex stakeholder relationships
• Evidence of managing projects using project management techniques
• Experience of working with staff forums, trade unions and/or network