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Our flexible working policies support the wellbeing of our staff as well as our commitment to equality and diversity. As a member of the team you could benefit from homeworking, flexible hours, and our enhanced policies around sick pay and maternity, paternity and adoption leave. We also offer enhanced holiday allowances, which can be further increased with long service and adjusted to suit you using our buy/sell holiday scheme.

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DI’s reward and remuneration package is shaped by:

• Fair pay – based on individual contribution, skills and expertise, the role and market
• Profit share – to reward collaboration towards our collective success
• Benefits – to provide added value for individuals, our communities and for our environment
• Recognition – to celebrate achievements, innovation and to provide development opportunities

Our global talent market is broad and to attract and retain talent while ensuring fair pay, we have global career levels with local pay ranges. The global career levels allow us to establish competencies for a role wherever it is based and supports career development in a fair and transparent way. Local pay ranges are developed using external sources to job match and benchmark our roles to ensure that we are paying salaries that are competitive for the relevant market in which that role exists. This allows us to have a local market-competitive pay framework that is simple and transparent. Contractual arrangements within this framework will differ depending on market conditions and funding. We have pledged to show the salary in all the DI roles we advertise. We don't show the salary for the consultancy opportunities; instead we typically ask prospective consultants to quote in their local currency based on the role profile, and their experience. We will provide salary guidance if requested.

Since 2013 we have been an accredited Living Wage Employer in the UK and apply the same principles to salaries across the world.

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We provide the conditions you need to excel in your role and career. We offer paid leave to volunteer, donate blood and study, and we support staff in paying professional course and membership fees. Our offices are informal environments offering a range of location-specific amenities from cycle-to-work schemes to free fruit, and you can expect to work with colleagues as passionate as you are about ending poverty. We are a friendly organisation that respects how individuals think, work, live and identify.

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