Equality & Diversity Officer (HR)

Job Description

Promote and develop Equality and Diversity issues in relation to all areas of employment within the Council. Work towards positively influencing the culture of the Council to create a fair and professional working environment for all employees in order to assist with the promotion, delivery and integration of the key objectives in relation to those identified within the People and Culture Service Plan and the Community Plan.

Requirements

If you apply for this post, please add the following email address to your safe sender list to ensure that any MyJobScotland related e-mails go directly to your inbox - noreply@myjobscotland.gov.uk.

Responsibilities

We follow the national guidance in relation to pre-employment checks namely “Safer Recruitment Through Better Recruitment”. With regards to requests for references and in line with this guidance, during your application process you should provide details of a minimum of two appropriate and relevant references, one of which should be from your current or most recent employer. It is also a requirement that the reference from your current or most recent employer is from an appropriate senior manager and it is not a reference from a former peer operating at the same level.

The Individual

This is a full time permanent post based within the Opera House, John Finnie Street, Kilmarnock.

The workstyle for this post is ‘Mobile’ - 20-49% of time is office based. Able to work at home, or another location, or travel directly from home to other locations and client visits out in the field.

The hours of work are 35 per week to be worked Monday - Thursday 9.00am - 5.00pm and Friday 9.00am - 4.00pm.

The full time salary of the post is £39,094 - £42,588 per annum.