EDI Consultant

We are looking for an experienced consultant to undertake a short, practical review of how a midsize infrastructure business can rapidly establish an initial Equality, Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging (EDIB) data baseline across its workforce and recruitment activity.

The organisation currently has limited consolidated EDIB data. We need someone who can quickly assess what information can realistically and appropriately be collected through our HR and recruitment processes, distinguish between individual-level and aggregate data, and give us a practical design that we can implement immediately.

This is a focused data, process and feasibility assignment, leading to a wider EDIB Strategy project.

What you will do:

• Review current and potential EDIB data collection across existing employees, new hires, direct applicants, RPO-managed recruitment, recruitment agencies and relevant recruitment platforms.
• Assess available HRIS and recruitment CRM/ATS functionality and supplier reporting capability at a practical level.
• Identify whether data available through each route is person-specific, pseudonymised/linkable, aggregate-only or unavailable/inappropriate to collect.
• Recommend a minimum viable voluntary EDIB dataset and associated monitoring questions.
• Identify how EDIB monitoring can appropriately be linked to recruitment stages and outcomes while remaining separate from selection decision-making.
• Recommend rapid collection methods, including pragmatic interim solutions where immediate system configuration is not possible.
• Draft appropriate employee/candidate explanatory and monitoring wording for subsequent internal privacy/legal approval.
• Identify likely limitations including non-response, incomplete coverage, small numbers, supplier variation and non-comparability between different data sources.
• Produce a concise implementation plan and leadership readout setting out what can credibly be collected and reported now and what should follow later.

Expected outputs:

You will leave us with a practical EDIB feasibility/data-level matrix, a recommended minimum viable dataset and question bank, a rapid implementation plan, and a concise leadership recommendation/reporting framework.

The work should be action-oriented and proportionate.

What we are looking for:

You are likely to have hands-on experience of several of the following:-

EDIB/equal-opportunities monitoring and demographic data collection; HRIS, ATS or recruitment CRM environments; recruitment data and candidate-funnel reporting; RPO and recruitment-agency operating models; voluntary employee/candidate self-identification exercises; privacy-conscious handling of sensitive demographic information; and translating complex data/process issues into simple, implementable recommendations for HR and business leaders.

Experience undertaking similar rapid assessments would be particularly useful.

To apply:

Please send a short summary of your relevant experience, examples of comparable EDIB/workforce or recruitment-data assignments, your availability, proposed approach to completing the assignment and your day rate.

We are particularly interested in consultants who can combine EDIB subject-matter knowledge with practical HR/recruitment data and systems experience and who are comfortable producing a pragmatic, ready-to-implement recommendation.