Job Description
Grade UE07: £41,064- £48,822 per annum
College of Science & Engineering, School of Informatics
Full Time: 35 hours per week
Fixed Term: Until July 2027
The Opportunity
Join our dynamic School of Informatics as an EDI Manager and play a key role in advancing equality, diversity, and inclusion. This critical position involves leading the School’s EDI initiatives, ensuring a supportive environment where all members of our community feel valued and empowered to succeed.
As EDI Manager, you will develop and promote strategic initiatives in collaboration with the Director of People & Culture and EDI Champions. You will monitor the implementation of the School’s Athena Swan Action Plan, analyse data, and identify areas for improvement. Your role will include promoting EDI awareness through training, workshops, and effective communication strategies.
You will collaborate closely with stakeholders across the School and the wider College of Science & Engineering, fostering relationships to enhance EDI practices and prevent duplication of efforts. Your expertise will guide staff and students in understanding and implementing EDI policies, ensuring compliance with university standards.
We seek a candidate with proven experience in EDI roles, strong leadership and interpersonal skills, and the ability to analyse and present data to support decision-making.
If you are passionate about creating an inclusive academic culture and have a track record of driving meaningful change, we encourage you to apply.
This is a fixed-term position until July 2027, with potential for extension.
This post is full-time (35 hours per week); however, we are open to considering part-time or flexible working patterns. We are also open to considering requests for hybrid working (on a non-contractual basis) that combines a mix of remote and regular on-campus working.
Contact Details For Enquiries
Eddie Wilkinson, e.wilkinson@ed.ac.uk
The salary for this post is £41,064 to £48,822 per annum.
Your Skills And Attributes For Success
* Completion of a degree or equivalent formal training, plus relevant experience.
* Vocational experience, demonstrating development through involvement in progressively more demanding relevant experience.
* Proven ability to build and maintain effective relationships and collaborations with diverse stakeholders.
* Demonstrated skills working in an EDI, organisational development role and/or community/culture building in a medium to large organisation.
* Evidence of ability to interpret policies and procedures to understand, identify gaps and implement processes.
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Please ensure you include the following documents in your application:
* CV
* Cover letter
As a valued member of our team you can expect
* A competitive salary
* An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work.
* To be part of a diverse and vibrant international community
* Comprehensive Staff Benefits, such as a generous holiday entitlement, competitive pension schemes, staff discounts, and family-friendly initiatives. Check out the full list on our staff benefits page (opens in a new tab) and use our reward calculator to discover the total value of your pay and benefits
Championing equality, diversity and inclusion
The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.
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On this occasion the University will not consider applicants requiring sponsorship for this role. International workers will therefore only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK.
Key dates to note
The closing date for applications is 7th January 2026.
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About Us
As a world-leading research-intensive University, we are here to address tomorrow’s greatest challenges. Between now and 2030 we will do that with a values-led approach to teaching, research and innovation, and through the strength of our relationships, both locally and globally.
About The Team
Informatics is the study of how natural and artificial systems store, process and communicate information. Research in Informatics promises to take information technology to a new level, and to place information at the heart of 21st century science, technology and society. The School enjoys collaborations across many disciplines in the University, spanning all three College, and also participates as a strategic partner in the Alan Turing Institute and is home to a number of Centres for Doctoral Training.
The School provides a fertile environment for a wide range of studies focused on understanding computation in both artificial and natural systems. It attracts students around the world to study in our undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. Informatics is one of seven schools in the College of Science and Engineering, at the University of Edinburgh. It is recognised for the employability of its graduates, its contributions to entrepreneurship, and the excellence of its research. Since the first Research Assessment Exercise in 1986, Informatics at Edinburgh has consistently been assessed to have more internationally excellent and world-class research than any other submission in Computer Science and Informatics. The latest REF 2021 results have again confirmed that ours is the largest concentration of internationally excellent research in the UK. This contributes to our ranking of consistently being in the top 30 world-wide.
We aim to ensure that our culture and systems support flexible and family-friendly working and recognise and value diversity across all our staff and students. The School has an active programme offering support and professional development for all staff; providing mentoring, training, and networking opportunities.