About the placement

Your role will be business administration support for the team to ensure comprehensive Equality, Diversity and Inclusive activity runs efficiently across all parts of the organisation, being part of inclusive culture change in the way that people build good inclusive practice across the organisation. You will support the administration for programmes of work. Including support for our internal Steering groups e.g. Chairs, Reps and Senior Sponsor group, White Ribbon, Stonewall and Race Equality Matters to drive improvements to support inclusive culture change.

You will offer business support where needed for our staff networks, organisation wide initiatives and projects relating to equality, diversity, and inclusion.

You will be joining our EDI Team, who work collaboratively across directorates engaging with internal customers, clients and stakeholders to provide internal focused consultancy, EDI training, support, guidance and signposting. Supporting the organisation to developing a culture of responsibility, accountability, performance and service improvement to ensure we comply with Equality and Human rights legislation, our Public Sector Equality Duty and industry good practice.

Working with colleagues across the People Service’s Team demonstrating commitment to developing and sharing learning, building expertise and confidence at every level of the organisation, from the point of application throughout employee’s careers with us.

We bring an informed view and expertise to the delivery and support of strategies, policies and plans to enhance the organisations inclusive culture to demonstrate outstanding outcomes, empower and engage all employees, recognise, and celebrate diversity, all to better serve the communities of Greater Manchester.

Some examples of the work you may be doing include:

• Working with the Equality Diversity and Inclusion Team
• Booking events for staff network activity
• Attending EDI meetings, recording action summaries from meetings
• Attending EDI planning meetings to capture actions
• Supporting the planning and preparation for EDI events.

About the business

Greater Manchester is one of the country’s most successful city-regions. Home to more than 2.8 million people and with an economy bigger than that of Wales or Northern Ireland. Our vision is to make Greater Manchester one of the best places in the world to grow up, get on and grow old. We’re getting there through a combination of economic growth, and the reform of public services.

The Greater Manchester Combined Authority(GMCA) is made up of the ten Greater Manchester councils which are Bolton, Bury, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford and Wigan.

About the T Level – Management and Administration

Students will develop an understanding of a broad range of issues relevant to the sector, including:

• business context – an overview of organisational cultures and values, different types of internal and external stakeholder, different forms of governance and the impact of organisations on society and the environment
• project and change management – an understanding of the common change management theories and models and how to support and improve projects
• business behaviours – the importance of good communication and adapting social communication styles to professional standards and according to purpose, medium and audience
• quality and compliance – the importance of maintaining and improving quality in all aspects of public and private sector organisations

This T Level course is currently on offer in Greater Manchester at:

• Bolton College
• Bury College
• Hopwood Hall College
• The Manchester College
• Oldham College
• Salford City College
• Stockport College
• Trafford College
• Wigan & Leigh College

This placement may not be available with all colleges or providers. Please speak to your college or provider for more information about which placements may be available to you.