Head of Diversity and Inclusion

You will be the Society’s goto person for advice on diversity and inclusion matters, and to ensure that the programmes fulfil the Royal Society’s objectives and expectations of quality, and that they run effectively and efficiently.  You will ensure that Royal Society activities are imaginative, maximise impact with target audiences and reinforce the Society’s position as the UK’s national academy of science.  Specifically, to develop, enhance or support the following activities, e.g.: supporting teams across the Society to enable them to deliver their diversity and inclusion activities; providing expertise, guidance and advice on diversity and inclusion matters to the senior leadership team and all sections across the Society; developing a programme of activity designed to support the diversity of applications to the Society’s grant schemes and encouraging leadership aspirations for researchers from minority and underrepresented groups