Manager, Responsible Tech and Human Rights

Why this job matters

The postholder will play a critical role in driving delivery across the three pillars of BT Group’s Responsible Tech and Human Rights strategy, which include:

• Tech Governance: Embed BT’s responsible tech principles for consistent decision making, supported by enabling governance, culture and capacity building.
• Growth and innovation: Leverage BT’s responsible approach to tech to differentiate existing products and propositions, and to lead in future growth areas.
• Engagement and collaboration: Partner to build a responsible tech ecosystem that builds trust and drives growth.

This is a business-critical agenda, driven by expectations from consumers, customers, colleagues and investors, that goes to the core of BT Group’s future commercial growth, brand and reputation, and which cuts across all business units.

The Manager, Responsible Tech and Human Rights will be a stretching role for someone early in their business and human rights career who is excited by the opportunity to work at the intersect of tech and human rights. To be successful, you will have a campaigning mindset, resilient in the face of challenge, creative and tenacious in navigating roadblocks to get the desired outcome. You will need a combination of project management and organisational skills, excellent relationship management, communication and influencing abilities, and the ability to apply the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights in the context of practical business decisions.

What you’ll be doing

Governance & reporting

• Support the evolution of BT Group’s governance framework to meet upcoming and emerging regulatory requirements e.g. Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive, Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive.
• Coordinate responsible tech and human rights reporting including the external modern slavery statement and internal risk reporting.
• Support delivery of regular progress reports to the Corporate Affairs Director and on updates to the Responsible Business Committee and other senior leaders.
• Carry out administrative and project management tasks for the team including scheduling meetings, minute-taking, and monitoring delivery against key actions.

Growth and Innovation

• Ensure the responsible tech principles are applied in the context of key commercial propositions, with a focus on leveraging responsible tech to add value to the business and lead in new and future growth areas.
• Work with BT Group’s customer-facing and technology units and other corporate functions including BT Sourced (our procurement business), to advise on Responsible Tech and Human Rights.Engagement

Engagement

• Support group-wide capacity building to ensure colleagues are empowered to manage responsible tech and human rights risks through activities including training, creation of guidance and management of the intranet.
• Engage with external stakeholders to inform BT Group’s approach internally and help develop BT Group’s external position and profile on responsible tech and human rights issues with external stakeholders – e.g. suppliers, customers, investors, civil society, government.

The skills you’ll need

• 3-5 years’ business and human rights work experience.
• Experience applying the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises.
• An understanding of the human rights implications of technology across the value chain of develop, use, buy (sourcing) and sell
• Ability to drive delivery at pace and manage competing priorities.
• Demonstrable strategic thinking and leadership abilities.
• Exemplary stakeholder management, negotiation and influencing skills.
• Ability to act as a spokesperson externally as well as internally, able to articulate a businesses’ viewpoint to a wide range of stakeholders
• Able to operate effectively amid ambiguity and rapid change.

Benefits

• 25 days’ annual leave, plus bank holidays, and additional days for length of service
• 10% on target bonus
• Life Assurance
• Pension scheme - If you pay in a minimum of 5% of your pensionable salary every month we will pay in 10%
• 50% off BT and EE mobile SIM only plans
• Exclusive colleague discounts on our latest and greatest BT broadband packages
• BT TV, including BT Sport and the NOW Entertainment membership, and 25% off NOW Sport, Cinema and Kids
• 50% off the airtime element off a Flex Pay plan, or a SIM Only plan, to up to five friends and family members a year.
• Shared Parental leave - maximum amount of leave you can share with your partner is 50 weeks
• 3 volunteering days per year
• Competitive employee discount on BT/EE products
• Competitive friends and family discount on EE Mobile

Our leadership standards

Looking in:

Leading inclusively and Safely I inspire and build trust through self-awareness, honesty and integrity.

Owning outcomes I take the right decisions that benefit the broader organisation.

Looking out:

Delivering for the customer I execute brilliantly on clear priorities that add value to our customers and the wider business.

Commercially savvy I demonstrate strong commercial focus, bringing an external perspective to decision-making.

Looking to the future:

Growth mindset I experiment and identify opportunities for growth for both myself and the organisation. Building for the future

I build diverse future-ready teams where all individuals can be at their best.

About us

BT is part of BT Group, along with EE, Openreach, and Plusnet.

Millions of people rely on us every day to help them live their lives, power their businesses, and keep their public services running. We connect friends to family, clients to colleagues, people to possibilities. We keep the wheels of business spinning, and the emergency services responding.

We value diversity and celebrate difference. As Philip Jansen, our CEO, says ‘We embed diversity and inclusion into everything that we do. It’s fundamental to our purpose: we connect for good.’

We all stick to the same values: Personal, Simple, and Brilliant. From day one, you’ll get stuck in to tough challenges, pitch in with ideas, make things happen. But you won’t be alone: we’ll be there with help and support, learning and development.

This is your chance to make a real difference to the world: to be part of the digital transformation of countless lives and businesses. Grab it.

A FEW POINTS TO NOTE:

Although these roles are listed as full-time, if you’re a job share partnership, work reduced hours, or any other way of working flexibly, please still get in touch.

DON’T MEET EVERY SINGLE REQUIREMENT?

Studies have shown that women and people who are disabled, LGBTQ+, neurodiverse or from ethnic minority backgrounds are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single qualification and criteria. We’re committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace where everyone can be their best, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every requirement on the Job Description, please apply anyway - you may just be the right candidate for this or other roles in our wider team.

To Apply

Please visit the BT Group plc careers website.