Advert Close date: 19th June 2026
Talent Equity & Voice Lead (Maternity Cover) role at The Crown Estate
About The Crown Estate
At The Crown Estate, we manage land and property on behalf of the nation, creating lasting value for communities, businesses and the environment.
Our People & Culture team plays a critical role in shaping an inclusive, high-performing organisation, ensuring that our talent practices are equitable, data-led and aligned to our long-term strategy.
The Role
We are seeking a '
Talent Equity & Voice Lead (Maternity Cover)' to drive the strategic direction of equity, talent progression and employee voice across The Crown Estate.
Reporting to the Head of Talent, you will lead the enterprise approach to ensuring equitable outcomes across the employee lifecycle, embedding inclusive practices into talent, learning, performance and succession frameworks.
This is a highly strategic role, operating through influence and partnership, working closely with Talent Acquisition, Business Partners, L&D and senior leaders to shape outcomes at scale.
Key Responsibilities
- Define and embed an enterprise-wide approach to equity and employee voice, ensuring consistent and credible outcomes across the organisation
- Shape and steward equitable design principles across talent, performance, learning and succession practices
- Partner with key stakeholders to identify and mitigate bias or unintended barriers within talent systems and processes
- Lead the strategy for strengthening talent pipelines, focusing on internal progression, mobility and future workforce needs
- Own the design and direction of equity-focused programmes, ensuring measurable impact and fair access to opportunity
- Work closely with Talent Acquisition to align attraction, sourcing and assessment approaches with equity objectives
- Develop and deliver the employee listening strategy, including engagement, onboarding and offboarding insights
- Analyse and translate data into clear, actionable organisational insight, identifying trends, risks and opportunities
- Provide oversight of employee networks, ensuring diverse perspectives are captured and inform business decisions
- Act as a trusted advisor to senior leaders, influencing decision-making and ensuring accountability for equitable outcomes
- Ensure insight-led actions are meaningful, proportionate and effectively delivered across the organisation
About You
- Strong experience in equity, inclusion, talent strategy or people insight within a complex organisation
- Proven ability to shape organisational approaches to equity and employee voice and translate strategy into practical interventions
- Experience influencing core talent practices such as performance, succession and development through collaboration
- Strong analytical capability, with experience translating data into clear insight and business action
- Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence senior leaders on complex and sensitive topics
- A strategic thinker with strong judgement, able to prioritise what will deliver meaningful impact
- Comfortable operating through influence rather than direct control
- Passionate about creating equitable, inclusive and high-performing organisations
Qualifications (or Working Towards)
- Relevant experience in talent, inclusion, HR or people analytics
- Experience working with people data and insight tools (desirable)
- Background in organisational development, talent or inclusion strategies (beneficial)
What We Offer
- The opportunity to shape equity and employee voice across a nationally significant organisation
- A collaborative, purpose-led environment focused on long-term impact
- Competitive salary and benefits package
- A role where your work directly influences culture, inclusion and organisational performance
Our Offering / benefits:
As well as a competitive salary, pension and performance related bonus offering, we have a wealth of benefits available ranging from flexible working; market leading family policies and shopping discounts in the West End, to private healthcare; life and critical illness cover and 28 days holiday with the option to buy more. We value work life balance and your wellbeing highly, enabling you to be your best self to work.
Disability Disclaimer:
We are a proud disability confident employer and operate the offer of interview scheme
Disability Confident employer scheme - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
We are happy to offer alternative application methods or formats and can be flexible on our process to enable you to have the best opportunity.
Please note that if we receive a high volume of applications, we may close this advert early. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible.
The Crown Estate is a unique business with a distinct heritage and a portfolio unlike any other.
It includes some of central London’s best places to work, shop and spend time, retail and leisure destinations across the country, and a substantial rural portfolio. As manager of the seabed and half the foreshore around England, Wales and Northern Ireland, we play a role in the UK’s world-leading offshore wind sector as well as marine aggregates, cables and pipelines. We are also responsible for the Windsor Estate, including the world-renowned Windsor Great Park.
