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The energy & utilities sector’s ‘inclusion commitment’ launches webinar series on diversity & inclusion
The Sector’s Inclusion Commitment is a long- termcommitment from42 employers to attract, develop and retain amore diverse workforce, reflective and inclusive of the communities it serves. The collaboration launches a newwebinar series as part of its commitment to collaboration and the sharing of best practice to address the sector diversity and inclusion challenges.
The Energy & Utilities Skills Partnership recently launched theWorkforce Renewal and Skills Strategy 2020 – 2025. In order to address the sector’sworkforce and skills challenges this strategy outlines three strategic priorities. 1. Sector attractiveness, recruitment and workforce diversity
2. Maximising investment in skills 3. Targeted action – to address anticipated skills gaps and shortages
The strategy recognises that the energy and utilities sector’sworkforce diversity is below the UK averages for gender, BAME and disability. This strategy commits to embed diversity and inclusion into the core of the sector’sworkforce strategy and details priorities to achieve this: •
Inclusive approach to employing, developing and progressing diverse talent.
• Widening the talent pool to ensure that sector employers can reach a diverse range of people for different types of roles.
• Ensuring our sector is fulfilling its social mission in unifying communities and bringing together people of different backgrounds, ages, gender and ethnicities etc.
• Measure and be transparent about progress as individual organisations and as a sector.
Thiswebinar series aims to progress these priorities, offer practical advice and share best practicewith employers on several themes fromBlack LivesMatter and Race
Conversations atWork, to developing an Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Strategy. Thewebinars lead up to the launch of a Sector InclusionMeasurement Framework launching in September 2020. Topics in the series include: • Engineering aWinningWorkforce: Engaging theMajority
• Black LivesMatter – Having Race Conversations atWork
• Improving EDI Data Visibility
• Empowering leaders and improving EDI awareness
• Attracting & Retaining Diverse talent • Optimising your recruitment processes • EDI Data collection
Thewebinars are open to Diversity & Inclusion Leads/Allies, HR/Recruitment Professionals andwider sector colleagues looking for practicalways to attract, develop and retain a diverseworkforcewithin their organisation. The firstwebinar in the series ‘Engineering a WinningWorkforce: Engaging theMajority’ takes place onWednesday 8th June at 11am andwill be led by DrMarkMcBrideWright, Managing Director at Equal Engineers. This webinarwill cover learnings fromthe Masculinity in Engineering report and how these can be utilised for the energy & utilities sector. Itwill also explore howto create impactful culture change programmeswhich reframe and embed equality, diversity and inclusion.
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