EDI Manager

EDI Manager

Join our dynamic School of Informatics as an EDI Manager and play a key role in advancing equality, diversity, and inclusion. This critical position involves leading the School’s EDI initiatives, ensuring a supportive environment where all members of our community feel valued and empowered to succeed.

• Grade: UE07
• Salary: £41,064 – £48,822 per annum
• College:
  College of Science & Engineering, School of Informatics
• Employment:
  Full Time, 35 hours per week
• Contract:
  
  Fixed Term until July 2027

As EDI Manager you will develop and promote strategic initiatives in collaboration with the Director of People & Culture and EDI Champions. You will monitor the implementation of the School’s Athena Swan Action Plan, analyse data, and identify areas for improvement. Your role will include promoting EDI awareness through training, workshops, and effective communication strategies.

You will collaborate closely with stakeholders across the School and the wider College of Science & Engineering, fostering relationships to enhance EDI practices and prevent duplication of efforts. Your expertise will guide staff and students in understanding and implementing EDI policies, ensuring compliance with university standards.

We seek a candidate with proven experience in EDI roles, strong leadership and interpersonal skills, and the ability to analyse and present data to support decision-making. If you are passionate about creating an inclusive academic culture and have a track record of driving meaningful change, we encourage you to apply.

This is a fixed‑term position until July 2027, with potential for extension. The post is full‑time (35 hours per week); however, we are open to considering part‑time or flexible working patterns, including hybrid working (on a non‑contractual basis).

• Completion of a degree or equivalent formal training, plus relevant experience.
• Vocational experience, demonstrating development through involvement in progressively more demanding relevant experience.
• Proven ability to build and maintain effective relationships and collaborations with diverse stakeholders.
• Demonstrated skills working in an EDI, organisational development role and/or community/culture building in a medium to large organisation.
• Evidence of ability to interpret policies and procedures to understand, identify gaps and implement processes.

• CV
• Cover letter

• A competitive salary
• An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work.
• To be part of a diverse and vibrant international community
• Comprehensive staff benefits, including generous holiday entitlement, competitive pension schemes, staff discounts, and family‑friendly initiatives.

The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.

Prior to any employment commencing with the University you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our right to work webpages. On this occasion the University will not consider applicants requiring sponsorship for this role. International workers will therefore only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK.

• Closing date for applications: 7th January 2026 (11:59 pm GMT).

As a world‑leading research‑intensive University, we are here to address tomorrow’s greatest challenges. Between now and 2030 we will do that with a values‑led approach to teaching, research and innovation, and through the strength of our relationships, both locally and globally.

Informatics is the study of how natural and artificial systems store, process and communicate information. Research in Informatics promises to take information technology to a new level, and to place information at the heart of 21st‑century science, technology and society. The School enjoys collaborations across many…