Salary range: Grade 10 £43,680 - £45,750 p.a. plus fantastic benefits
Contract: Permanent
Hours of work: 36 hours per week
Location: Croydon
Are you passionate about equality, inclusion and making a real difference?
Croydon Council is looking for an Equalities & HR Policy Officer to help shape the policies, practices and culture that support a diverse, inclusive and high-performing workforce. Working within our Workforce Strategy team, you'll play a key role in developing people policies, supporting equality initiatives, analysing workforce data and contributing to major organisational change programmes.
Why Croydon?
This is an opportunity to influence organisation-wide change, help create a more inclusive workplace and contribute to the delivery of our People and Culture ambitions.
If you're looking for a role where your work will have visible impact across the organisation, we'd love to hear from you.
To view the Equalities & HR Policy Officer role profile please click here.
The Council balances its books, listens to residents, and delivers good sustainable services
Key business plan outcomes:
Croydon Council is an inclusive employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. Subject to business needs, we will be pleased to consider applications from candidates seeking flexible working arrangements and support hybrid working, whereby staff attend the workplace for part of their working week and work from home, or elsewhere, remotely for the rest of the time.
As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the advertised role.
Croydon council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment.
The Successful candidate will be subject to a DBS check, if the role requires one.
We provide a large number of services for local people, businesses and visitors to the borough, including services for children and adults, and environmental, cultural, sports, housing, planning and benefits services.
The borough is split into 24 electoral wards, and local elections are held every four years.
With a workforce of approximately 3,300 staff, including teachers in schools, Croydon Council is the largest employer in the borough. Spending over £900 million per year, the council makes a significant contribution to the local economy.
The council comprises three main political functions, the Executive (Leader and Cabinet), Committees, and Scrutiny.
The Leader and Cabinet are responsible and accountable for shaping policies and plans and recommending them to the council for approval. Cabinet also gives direction to departmental directors on the way services are managed and the budgets allocated to them.
Six non-executive committees take decisions relating to planning, licensing, standards of behaviour and conduct for members and officers, staffing issues, tenders, property transactions, liaison with local utility companies and internal audit.
Scrutiny holds the council executive functions to account. Examining aspects of council performance, the Overview and Scrutiny Committee also increasingly involves other local agencies which contribute to the economic, social and environmental well-being of the local population.
