Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Manager

Forvis Mazars cares about your career progression, offering individually designed career paths that help you pursue your interests, match your changing needs, and explore your true potential. We work with diverse, prestigious clients across a range of sectors and geographies, giving you the opportunity to constantly update and grow your skills for lifelong professional development.

About the team

Our People Experience Centre of Excellence make it their mission to ensure Forvis Mazars has an inclusive and high-performing workforce that represents the diversity of our clients to deliver exceptional service.

Job Purpose

Reporting to the Senior Manager for Inclusion, Engagement, & Performance, this high-profile role gives exceptional exposure across People & Culture and with senior leaders across the firm to deliver our firmwide inclusion and diversity objectives.

As the Equity, Diversity and & Inclusion Lead, you will excel at building stakeholder relationships; engaging, guiding, and upskilling team members, including senior stakeholders, to ensure we embed EDI into all we do with a focus on key moments that matter within the employee lifecycle: attraction, recruitment, reward, talent development and retention.

You will shape the agenda through a data driven approach to ensure we're taking the most impactful actions to create an inclusive environment where everyone has a sense of belonging and can make meaningful contributions by being themselves.

As the EDI Lead you will drive delivery of key strategic initiatives, supporting our networks to maximise impact, and ongoing EDI activity & communications.

About the role

• Delivering the UK firm's Equity, Diversity and Inclusion plan; this will involve working closely with HRBP colleagues to support the delivery of service line action plans.
• Partnering with internal stakeholders such as Talent Acquisition, Learning and Development, Advisory, Reward and Wellbeing to embed EDI into all we do, to ensure equal access to opportunity to attract, select, develop, and promote a talented, diverse workforce.
• Supporting our senior leaders to build a more inclusive culture by offering expertise and guidance, and providing appropriate challenge, and helping to improve their understanding and confidence around inclusion.
• Ensuring governance is adhered to. This will involve providing guidance and support to the firm's Inclusion Alliance and I&D Partner Sponsors.
• Overseeing the management of our networks and utilising them to ensure they influence and inform organisational decision making, provide a method of engagement with under-represented team members and contribute to our inclusion and diversity objectives.
• Delivering a high-quality inclusion and diversity internal and external reporting framework Partnering with our internal and external communication teams to deliver an inclusion and diversity communication plan that supports our vision and objectives and increases our brand awareness and credibility.
• Engaging senior leaders with educational content and thought leadership to enable them to better role model inclusive behaviours and help us embed inclusion throughout every aspect of life at Forvis Mazars
• Benchmarking external best practice to identify approaches for advancing inclusion and diversity in our firm.

About Forvis Mazars Forvis Mazars is a leading global professional services network. The network operates under a single brand worldwide, with just two members: Forvis Mazars LLP in the United States and Forvis Mazars Group SC, an internationally integrated partnership operating in over 100 countries and territories.