Inclusion Manager

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Requirements and Responsibilities

The following is a non-exhaustive list of the responsibilities of the role:

Policy, Governance and Strategy

• Lead the coordination and monitoring of progress against League EDI standards such as PLEDIS, PGAAC, and CCOP standards.
• Lead on the progress being made against the EDI Strategy. Including consultation with employees, participants and supporters.
• Support all departments across the business to meet their targets linked to the EDI deliver plan.
• Maintain and update all relevant policies, strategies, and plans.
• To create a programme of equality impact assessments for policies, procedures and other initiatives that could have the ability to impact on someone's protected characteristic.
• Conduct thematic audits and reviews of policies throughout the season.
• To ensure the Club is up to date and well informed of changes to legislation that impact on any one protected characteristic.
• To ensure the player rules reflect the service we offer to support players.
• Produce an annual achievement report.

Training

• Deliver EDI inductions to all staff and other specific groups such as Academy players and Stewards.
• Develop and implement an EDI workforce development plan for staff and players.
• Participate in external EDI training, conferences, and regional meetings; chair the Equality Working Group.
• Organize and analyse evaluation data from training sessions and external trainers.
• Support and deliver EDI workshops for players, staff, and trustees.
• Ensure unconscious bias training for all staff and support delivery of gender equality training.
• Provide advice and insight on inclusive recruitment methodologies to consider unconscious bias; and ensure the workforce receive inclusive recruitment training annually.
• To ensure Board and Trustee's receive EDI training.

Incident Reporting

• Oversee cases related to EDI incidents, including investigation lead responsibility and incident tracking.
• Ensuring good quality record keeping is maintained on internal case management systems.
• Leading case management meetings to ensure progress is being made on either incidents or complaints.
• Work with Kick it Out ("KIO") to arrange education sessions with supporters or employees.
• Educate players and participants on reporting processes and ensure clear rules reflecting their support services.
• Collaborate with stakeholders such as match safety, supporter relations, and police to manage abuse and online harassment cases.
• To have oversight of the themes, trends and analysis of incidents at home and away games
• To gather and analyse data on departmental representation on social impact initiatives.
• To work with the FAB on increasing feelings of confidence in reporting abuse.

Campaigns and Initiatives

• Lead on delivering EDI campaigns during key events (e.g., Black History Month, Pride Month, International Women's Day).
• Circulate and co-ordinate on EDI awareness events and lead match day EDI activations.

Analysis

• Work with our analysis team to gather and analyse employee workforce monitoring data from across the business. Produce regular updates and reports for Management Board and external regulators such as the Football Association.
• Oversee the development of an Equality Monitoring report that includes our workforce and playing groups, ensuring data accuracy across all teams.
• Oversee the gathering of Supporter demographic data and report regularly including back to our Fan Advisory Board on data insights.
• Produce annual EDI performance reports and support with Pay Gap reporting and analysis.

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