25 April 2022
Altair partners with diversity and executive recruitment pioneers Green Park to drive EDI in housing leadership
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Jo Sweetland, Managing Director
“A global talent advisory firm, Green Park is an industry pioneer in building diverse, senior leadership teams and more equitable workplace cultures.”
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Jo Heath, Managing Partner and Head of DICE
“Championing Diversity & Inclusion since our inception, we are driven by the core belief that there’s no shortage of talent, only opportunity.”
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Kai Adams, Managing Partner
“We deliver sustainable business value on a global scale to help organisations bring the future into focus.”
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Trevor Phillips, Chair
"Our clients benefit from our data-rich insights into what will drive productivity today and continue innovation through turbulence tomorrow.”
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Colin Salmon, Chair of the Green Park Foundation
“Through the Foundation, Green Park aim to deliver £1million of social value per annum to improving children lives and creating a more sustainable, equitable world”
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Jo Sweetland, Managing Director
"Our candidate care lasts long past the point of placement and is key to the rich relationships we build from a foundation of trust, authenticity, transparency and inclusion."
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Raj Tulsiani, CEO & Co-Founder
“We founded Green Park in 2006 with a mission to change the face of leadership. We retain that same passion and entrepreneurial spirit today as when we started.”
Green Park are pleased to have worked alongside Altair and the National Housing Federation in the creation of the Inclusive Recruitment Toolkit. A guide for board members, governance and HR teams, the Inclusive Recruitment Toolkit has been designed to help the housing sector deliver diverse, equitable and inclusive recruitment campaigns.
In 2020, the National Housing Federation released the first ever national picture of equality, diversity and inclusion of housing association workforces across England. The results found that significant work was needed to ensure board members were representative of the people living within the communities they serve. Not only was greater visible representation required, but different ways of thinking and different lived experiences.
The toolkit is a part of a set of resources available to NHF members to drive equality, diversity and inclusion and therefore improve skills, effectiveness and representation across the housing sector and includes:
- What inclusive recruitment is.
- Why this is important for boards.
- The social justice and business case for EDI.
- The importance of language and culture.
- How to improve the recruitment process, from job advert to appointment.
Green Park are proud to have helped develop the Inclusive Recruitment Toolkit, alongside the leading social housing consultancy and our housing sector partners Altair. Together, Green Park and Altair have been working to help increase representation at the most senior levels of the housing sector, with the launch of the Inclusive Recruitment Toolkit marking one year since their partnership began.
Jaimi Shanahan, Director at Green Park, comments: “The Inclusive Recruitment Toolkit is an extension of Green Park and Altair’s commitment to work with housing sector clients to challenge expectations and change behaviours; driving a culture shift that leads to more inclusive recruitment and onboarding.”
Jenny Brown, Chair of Longhurst Group and Director of Altair, adds: “These practical resources aim to support housing association boards to rethink recruitment processes; explore new forms of succession planning; and publicly commit to creating a vision for inclusion and belonging. The tools are just the start of what will hopefully be a sustainable change in how we as boards reflect and act.”
NHF members can click here to download the Inclusive Recruitment Toolkit.
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