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Stakeholder Engagement and Diversity Manager (HEO) job description
Judicial Appointments Commission – Stakeholder Engagement and Diversity Manager (HEO)
About the JAC
The Judicial Appointments Commission (JAC) is an independent public body, established in April 2006, to select judges in the courts and tribunals, and non-legal tribunal members. The JAC selects judicial candidates through fair and open competition, encouraging a wide range of quality candidates to apply for the posts that it advertises.
The JAC is responsible for designing, planning, and running recruitment campaigns to select judicial office holders up to and including High Court Judges. We have a statutory duty to select solely on merit, while keeping our selection processes open to the widest range of applicants. We launch a new campaign for judicial posts every one to two weeks. These range from high volume campaigns for ‘entry level’ posts, attracting upward of 2,000 applicants, to small campaigns for senior roles, attracting a handful of highly qualified people.
Though located at Clive House, Petty France, London, SW1H 9AJ JAC staff are currently working in a hybrid way with some days in the office and some days working remotely. It will be necessary for the successful postholder to work at the JAC location regularly to support business need.
We offer a range of benefits including an attractive annual leave allowance, flexible working, and choice of pension schemes. We actively encourage all staff to undertake learning and development as part of their personal objectives.
More information about the JAC is on our website: http://judicialappointments.gov.uk
The Role
We’re looking for a Stakeholder Engagement and Diversity Manager (HEO) to join the JAC’s Diversity and Engagement (D&E) team. This is a varied and exciting role which supports the JAC in selecting new judges of the highest quality from the widest range of backgrounds. The successful candidate will work with senior members of the JAC including the Commission Board members as well as our key external partners and stakeholders to help develop a strong and diverse candidate pool. The successful candidate will work with colleagues across the JAC to ensure that our selection processes are fair and free from bias.
We’re looking for people who have:
- An abilility to build constructive relationships with a variety of internal and external partners and other stakeholders, including senior staff.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to target communications to a range of audiences.
- Strong organisational skills.
- Strong IT skills and the ability to quickly develop the skills to work with new IT solutions.
- Good analytical skills and confidence in reviewing and analysing data.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of diversity monitoring data collection and analysis.
- Knowledge of equality legislation and the diversity issues affecting the judiciary and legal professions.
- Knowledge and understanding of recruitment and selection processes would be advantageous but is not essential.
Main responsibilities of the role will include:
- Supporting the Senior Stakeholder Engagement and Diversity Manager (SEO) in providing diversity policy advice to the organisation, including the diversity review of JAC selection materials, and responding to enquiries.
- Providing insight on target groups through analysis of data; manage ‘diversity checkpoints’ at key points during the judicial selection process; liaising with selection exercise teams, recording, and drawing conclusions on the data.
- Manage the JAC input to stakeholder engagement and support stakeholder key relationships, including within the Judicial Diversity Forum (JDF) chaired by the Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor.
- Manage the JAC input to outreach events; liaise with event organisers, arrange for JAC representatives to speak at events; draft presentations/briefing materials for speakers; and work with the SEO to consider further avenues/networks for potential outreach.
- Other tasks as required by the D&E team which can include: assisting with internal diversity policy development and training delivery, assisting with international judicial visits, managing team returns such as the Management Information Pack (MIP) and any ad-hoc diversity work.
Recruitment process details
Behaviours
We’ll assess you against these behaviours during the recruitment process:
- Communicating and Influencing
- Working Together
- Seeing the Big Picture
In addition to these behaviours, your experience will be assessed during the recruitment process.
You should have experience in the following areas:
- Excellent communication skills, both written and oral
- Experience of working with a wide range of stakeholders
- Experience of working in a diversity and/or engagement role
Application process
You need to provide:
- Your CV
- A statement of suitability detailing the relevant skills and experience you have (250 words max).
- Written evidence of the 2 core behaviours for this role: Communicating and Influencing and Working Together
Sift
Applications will be sifted based on the CV, Statement of Suitability and the 2 behaviours: Communicating and Influencing and Working Together.
Interview
At interview you we will assess you against 3 behaviours: Communicating and Influencing, Working Together and Seeing the Big Picture. We will also assess you against two strengths: Team Player and Relationship Builder. You can find out more about Civil Service behaviours and strengths here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/success-profiles
Interviews are expected to take place in the weeks commencing 15 and 22 August 2022. Interviews may be conducted remotely via Microsoft Teams or face-to-face. More details on the arrangements will be provided to candidates invited to interview.
Reserve List
As well as appointing to the vacancy listed above we may place other candidates on a 12-month reserve list for future vacancies.
Further Information
If after reading this job description you require any further information, please contact Rachael Worthington, Senior Stakeholder Engagement and Diversity Manager
Rachael.Worthington@judicialappointments.gov.uk
If you have any questions about the recruitment campaign, or any terms and conditions relating to the role, please contact the JAC HR Division:
Claire.Thurlow@judicialappointments.gov.uk
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