EDI Manager (Membership)

The Law Society; City of Westminster; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading professional organization in the UK seeks an EDI professional to shape inclusive practices within the solicitor profession. This role involves designing impactful EDI programmes, managing projects, and enhancing member resources. Ideal candidates should have proven EDI experience, strong project management skills, and excellent stakeholder engagement abilities. The position offers hybrid working arrangements and a flexible benefits package, promoting career development in a supportive environment.

Benefits

Generous flexible benefits package

Friendly working environment

Opportunities for career development

Qualifications

• Experience using data and research to create evidence-based guidance.
• Ability to balance project priorities and meet deadlines.
• Confident in building relationships at all levels.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver impactful EDI programmes.
• Manage multiple projects and commission research.
• Evaluate impact and report progress on initiatives.

Skills

Proven experience delivering impactful EDI programmes

Strong knowledge of equality, diversity and inclusion

Experience managing projects

Strong stakeholder engagement skills

Excellent communication skills

Job description

This is an exciting opportunity for an equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) professional to shape a more inclusive future for the solicitor profession. In this role, you'll design and deliver impactful programmes, develop practical and evidence-based resources and guidance that help our members embed best practice and drive positive change across the profession. Working collaboratively with colleagues, members, and external stakeholders you'll manage multiple projects, commission research where needed and bring together diverse voices to shape outputs. From evaluating impact to reporting progress, you'll ensure our initiatives deliver measurable results. This is a fantastic opportunity to influence change at scale.

We’re seeking a passionate EDI professional who’s passionate about driving change and delivering results.

• Proven experience delivering impactful EDI programmes, using data and research to create practical, evidence-based guidance and resources that drive change.
• Strong knowledge of equality, diversity and inclusion including legislation, best practice and what works to drive positive change
• Experience managing projects - able to balance priorities and meet deadlines
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills - confident building relationships at all levelsExcellent communication skills - clear and persuasive in writing and in person
• We offer hybrid working with a baseline of two days a week in our Chancery Lane office and a monthly in person team day. You will also benefit from a generous flexible benefits package, a friendly working environment and opportunities to develop your career in a professional organisation. We are recruiting for two roles (up to 1.5 FTE) and are flexible about how they are filled. This could be one full time and one part time role, or two part time roles. We welcome applications from those seeking flexible or alternative working patterns and will consider these on a case by case basis at appointment.