DEI Partner - Data strategy and External partnerships

London, England, United Kingdom

12/20/2024

Join us as DEI Partner - Data strategy and External partnerships within the DEI space to be a part of to Support the lead Business Partner to an entity and region in their role to operate as a thought leader and strategic partner across HR and the business to pro-actively seek out opportunities to improve strategy and business outcomes as it relates to D&I. Embedding and driving progress for our multi-year strategy and ambitions including developing, monitoring, and reporting on indicators of success and challenges. You will Partner key stakeholders to influence their actions and mindset as it relates to DEI, leverage data-based insights to determine opportunities and interventions that drive progress against the global DEI strategy and ambitions. You will also leverage internal and external partnerships to support opportunity identification and solution design.

The Ideal Candidate Must Have

• Stakeholder management, consultation and influencing skills
• Analytical, leveraging insightful data to solve problems and influence decisions
• Strong written, verbal and presentation skills
• Great collaborator and diplomat who thrives in bringing people of all levels together
  
  
  

You may be assessed on key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

Purpose of the role

To seek out opportunities to improve colleague and business outcomes as it relates to DEI, working with stakeholders at all levels.

Accountabilities

• Development and support of progress across the DEI agendas.
• Implementation and embedment of DEI strategy in partnership with DEI counsels, business and ERGs, working to influence and build accountability across the business to drive outcomes.
• Collaboration with other departments to ensure that DEI is embedded in all aspects of the business, across the colleague, customer & client and community lifecycles.
• Development of monitoring (measuring and tracking) and reporting on indicators of success, creating insight and analysis to make recommendations for improvement.
  
  
  

Assistant Vice President Expectations

• To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.
• Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes
• If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others.
• OR for an individual contributor, they will lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/ or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
• Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
• Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
• Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
• Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc).to solve problems creatively and effectively.
• Communicate complex information. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.
• Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes.
  
  
  

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.