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This is a great opportunity to play a pivotal role in the delivery and continued growth of Deloitte’s Diversity on Boards programmes: Women on Boards and Race in the Boardroom. These leadership initiatives support senior leaders from underrepresented groups as they prepare for board-level roles and navigate the journey to greater influence and impact in the boardroom.
Working closely with senior executives, board members, chairs and Deloitte leaders, you will help create exceptional experiences that inspire, challenge and connect current and aspiring board leaders. The programmes include immersive development academies, networking opportunities and regular communications that keep our communities engaged throughout the year.
Over the years, the programmes have supported hundreds of senior leaders across a diverse range of sectors, helping to build influential networks of alumni from many of the UK's leading organisations. Through world-class development experiences, peer learning and meaningful connections, the programmes have become trusted platforms for accelerating diverse representation and inclusion at board level.
This role offers a unique opportunity to contribute to high-profile programmes that sit at the intersection of leadership development, diversity and inclusion, client engagement and relationship building. You will play an important role in helping Deloitte strengthen relationships with key clients while supporting the development of more diverse and representative boards across the UK.
Connect to your career at Deloitte
Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, we help our clients' become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more.
What brings us all together at Deloitte? It’s how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, we lead the way, serve with integrity, take care of each other, foster inclusion, and collaborate for measurable impact. These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most.
Connect to your opportunity
This is a unique opportunity to play a key role in the delivery and growth of Deloitte’s flagship Diversity on Boards Panayiotis: Women on Boards and Race in the Boardroom. You will help create impactful experiences for senior leaders and board members, support a thriving and influential alumni community, and contribute to the development of new initiatives that advance diverse representation and leadership at board level.
Working at the heart of Deloitte’s relationships with some of our most significant clients, you will design and deliver exceptional experiences that support the development of future NEDs, while strengthening long-term connections with influential leaders. You will work closely with senior Deloitte partners, leading executives and board-level speakers.
This is a highly visible and rewarding role within a collaborative, high-performing team. It offers exposure to senior clients, the opportunity to build a strong network across the Firm, and significant scope to develop your project management, stakeholder engagement, event leadership and strategic communication skills.
The role sits within the Executive and Board Programmes (EBP) team, which supports senior leaders and executive talent from many of our largest and most influential clients. We help leaders navigate critical career transitions, accelerate their development and build high-performing executive teams—supporting a key part of Deloitte’s growth strategy and long-term client relationships.
Responsibilities include:
- Lead the end-to-end design, project management and delivery of the Diversity on Boards programmes.
- Partner with senior Deloitte leaders to identify and recruit participants and board-level speakers, ensuring alignment with the Firm’s priority account strategy.
- Create and deliver outstanding client experiences for Diversity on Boards, including an annual alumni event.
- Develop high-impact communications that strengthen engagement across the alumni community, including the Diversity on Boards newsletter.
- Manage programme budgets, governance and operational processes to ensure successful delivery and continuous improvement.
- Drive the effective management of Programme data, reporting and legacy information, ensuring high levels of quality, accuracy and insight.
- Continuously enhance the Programme experience, identifying opportunities to innovate, improve efficiency and increase impact.
Connect to your skills and professional experience
You enjoy being part of high-performing team, delivering outstanding client service, being incredibly organised and always look for ways to improve the experience for our clients, our team, and our programme sponsors.
Requirements
- Strong project and event management skills, with the ability to coordinate multiple activities and deliver high-quality experiences.
- Experience designing and delivering engaging events, programmes or client-facing initiatives.
- Excellent organisational skills, with strong attention to detail and the ability to manage competing priorities effectively.
- Good analytical and data management skills, with a structured approach to problem solving, planning and risk management.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the confidence to build relationships with senior stakeholders and develop high-quality communications and materials.
- A proactive and collaborative approach, with a willingness to contribute beyond your immediate remit.
- Advanced Microsoft Office skills, including Excel, PowerPoint, Word and Outlook.
- Interest in and enthusiasm for leveraging AI and emerging technologies to improve efficiency, innovation and programme impact.
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Collaboration is central to everything we do at Deloitte. From IT to HR, marketing and more, our teams help to support the wider business in everything they do. Bringing your individual skills and specialist knowledge, you can make a far-reaching impact. Come join us.
Clients and Markets
We bring together capabilities and best practices from around the globe to deliver relationship development activities, marketing and corporate affairs, whilst our operations team is focused on ensuring we’re constantly improving what we do.
Personal independence
Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints (e.g., in relation to any financial interests and employment relationships). This can mean that you and your "Immediate Family Members" are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm, and also prohibitions on certain employment relationships (e.g., you are not permitted to hold a secondary employment role with SEC audit clients of the firm whilst being employed by the firm). The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process or you can contact the Independence team upon request.
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"The amount of investment in me in terms of training and development has been incredible - it has undoubtedly helped me to progress my career." - Jim, Enabling Functions
Our hybrid working policy
You’ll be based in London with hybrid working.
At Deloitte we understand the importance of balancing your career alongside your home life. That’s why we’ll support you to work flexibly through our hybrid working policy. Depending on the requirements of your role, you’ll have the opportunity to work in your local office, virtual collaboration spaces, client sites and remotely. You’ll get the chance to meet face to face when needed, while you collaborate and learn from colleagues, share your experiences, and build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritise your wellbeing. Please check with your recruiter for the specific working requirements that may apply for your role.
Our commitment to you
Making an impact is more than just what we do: it’s why we’re here. So we work hard to create an environment where you can experience a purpose you believe in, the freedom to be you, and the capacity to go further than ever before.
We want you. The true you. Your own strengths, perspective and personality. So we’re nurturing a culture where everyone belongs, feels supported and heard, and is empowered to make a valuable, personal contribution. You can be sure we’ll take your wellbeing seriously, too. Because it’s only when you’re comfortable and at your best that you can make the kind of impact you, and we, live for.
Your expertise is our capability, so we’ll make sure it never stops growing. Whether it’s from the complex work you do, or the people you collaborate with, you’ll learn every day. Through world-class development, you’ll gain invaluable technical and personal skills. Whatever your level, you’ll learn how to lead.
Connect to your next step
A career at Deloitte is an opportunity to develop in any direction you choose. Join us and you’ll experience a purpose you can believe in and an impact you can see. You’ll be free to bring your true self to work every day. And you’ll never stop growing, whatever your level.
Discover more reasons to connect with us, our people and purpose-driven culture at deloitte.co.uk/careers
