ASSOCIATES - Inclusion and Diversity Consultancy - SPORTS

Thank you for considering applying to join our Associate Talent Pool here at Inclusive Employers. We hope this information can help you decide whether to apply.

Base: UK Based

Our Associates deliver consultancy and training both virtually and in person.

Skills & Experience: Proven experience of working within sports organisations delivering inclusion and diversity initiatives.

Associate Rates: Variable depending upon assignment.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and offer a guaranteed interview scheme for any disabled applicant who may wish to take up this offer, where they meet the minimum requirements for the role. You must have a Limited Company and be eligible to work in the UK to be considered.

Inclusive Employers: As the UK's first and leading cross sector membership organisation, we support employers in their goal to build inclusive workplaces and diverse workforces. Working across the whole spectrum of inclusion, in addition to member services we design and deliver training and consultancy solutions. We work in partnership with our members so that we can bring together best-practice and cutting edge thinking to promote innovation in this area and support businesses to gain from the social and commercial benefits of inclusion.

Being an Associate with Inclusive Employers: At Inclusive Employers (IE), we’re proud to work with a community of trusted Associates to deliver high-quality training and consultancy services on an assignment led ad hoc contract basis.

Inclusion and Diversity – The Assignments: Our Associates support us on an ad hoc assignment led basis delivering Inclusion and Diversity training, facilitation and/or consultancy services with confidence, credibility and warmth to our clients. The assignments vary and may include Online and Face to Face interventions including Workshops, Webinars, In-House and Consultancy Projects. To be considered for our Associate Pool, you will need to demonstrate a broad range of skills and competencies within Inclusion and Diversity including training and/or consultancy. This specific recruitment round requires you to be able to demonstrate having delivered these skills within the sport sector.

Examples of Associate assignments include:

• Deliver learning interventions - delivering a wide range of training, learning and development interventions with an engaging, informative, and convincing style that creates lasting change, to a wide range of audiences. Face to face and virtually.
• Consultancy solutions - delivering comprehensive, specialist and practical inclusion and diversity expertise and solutions to employers across the Sports sector on issues ranging from strategic to tactical and operational.

Associate Key Principles: To ensure clarity, transparency and compliance with relevant legislation (such as IR35), we ask all Associates to follow a few key principles that guide our working relationship.

• You’re a Limited Company: All our new Associates must operate as a registered UK limited company and are responsible for managing their own tax and legal obligations.
• You’re in control: As an Associate, you work independently and are not part of our internal team, operations or day-to-day supervision. There is no obligation on us to offer work, nor are you obliged to accept work offered. There is no guarantee of future assignments.
• You will have a clear scope of work: Each assignment stands on its own and will be agreed separately in writing, outlining scope, deliverables, timeframes, and rates.
• IE sets the fee structure: IE sets a clear fee structure for each assignment. To ensure our fee scale stays in line with market rates, we periodically review and may revise our fees where appropriate.

Requirements:

Person specification: Below are details of the skills, experience and attributes that we look for in our Associates:

• Excellent interpersonal and relationship-building skills – skilled in building rapport with various clients/sectors working with individuals from a wide range of organisations and at different levels of seniority.
• For Training / Facilitation: Highly developed presentation and communication skills - including experience of developing and delivering engaging Inclusion and Diversity training to a wide range of commercial audiences, including sports organisations and writing clear and concise reports.
• For Consultancy: Delivering inclusion and diversity consultancy solutions or strategies within complex sport organisations – you will need experience of developing solutions in a variety of contexts and being involved in the different stages of development from analysing the issues (using qualitative and quantitative data), through to recommending best practice solutions to senior leaders, to piloting interventions and evaluating their success.
• A working and comprehensive understanding and knowledge of the Equality Act 2010 and its implications for different areas of organisational activity and employment.
• An in-depth and current understanding of inclusive best practice as it applies to the workplace and within the sport sector.
• An inclusive approach and value set – we share a common belief in fairness and inclusion.

How to apply: Please click apply and attach your CV. You will be invited to answer the application questions and a cover letter is not required. The CV should clearly align with the requirements of the role at Inclusive Employers.

CLOSING DATE: 5pm Thursday 15th January (we reserve the right to close the role early if we feel it is necessary)

INTERVIEW DATE: January 2026