Deputy Chief Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Officer
About The Position
Provides second-line leadership to ensure the mission, vision, and core values of the administration are put into practice to drive an organizational strategy that advances access for all Virginians. Manages competing priorities in a fast-past environment while collaborating across the administration to address organizational challenges to foster a sense of belonging among agencies and institutions of higher education. Drives achievement of goals and objectives related to diversity, equity, and inclusion, including key performance metrics to measure progress across agencies and institutions of higher education. Motivates a high-performing team by demonstrating sound decision making, fostering a success-oriented environment, and providing mentoring as a cornerstone to career development among emerging professionals. Represents the office among both internal and external audiences, to include strategic engagement opportunities with hard-to-reach communities and meeting requests with constituents. Performs other duties as assigned.
Requirements
- Technical experience in the discipline of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
- Experience in human resources management.
- Experience with staying current with thought leadership.
- Ability to develop high-quality deliverables to communicate complex information to various audiences.
- Verbal public speaking engagements.
- Written communication skills, including drafting strategic plans, performance plans, executive summaries, annual reports, testimonies, policy position papers, agendas, memorandums, standard operating procedures, talking points, press releases, letters of recognition, social media captions, and briefing decks.
- Ability to synthesize qualitative and quantitative data sources to inform decision making.
- Experience with developing dashboards with key performance metrics.
- Experience conducting studies and administering surveys to measure employee and/or external stakeholder engagement.
- Ability to supervise teams across a distributed work environment.
- Experience with recruiting, interviewing, onboarding, training, coaching, and appraising employees.
- Experience mentoring emerging professionals.
- Familiarity with operations of state government.
- Experience with working relationships with elected officials, appointed officials, and civilian employees.
- Prior experience with the legislative policy-making process.
- Ability to manage the annual budgeting process, including personnel and operational costs.
- Experience with the procurement process for contractual engagements with consultants and other vendors, including small, women, and minority-owned businesses.
- Ability to execute programs to commemorate cultural heritage celebrations and special observances.
- Experience collaborating with employee resource groups and community stakeholder groups.
- Ability to develop and deploy developmental learning opportunities, including in-person and/or virtual asynchronous training courses.
Responsibilities
- Provides second-line leadership to ensure the mission, vision, and core values of the administration are put into practice to drive an organizational strategy that advances access for all Virginians.
- Manages competing priorities in a fast-past environment while collaborating across the administration to address organizational challenges to foster a sense of belonging among agencies and institutions of higher education.
- Drives achievement of goals and objectives related to diversity, equity, and inclusion, including key performance metrics to measure progress across agencies and institutions of higher education.
- Motivates a high-performing team by demonstrating sound decision making, fostering a success-oriented environment, and providing mentoring as a cornerstone to career development among emerging professionals.
- Represents the office among both internal and external audiences, to include strategic engagement opportunities with hard-to-reach communities and meeting requests with constituents.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
- Provides day-to-day management of emerging professionals and carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the Commonwealth’s policies and applicable laws.
- Recruits, interviews, and trains employees; directs and delegates work assignments among employees; and helps to appraise employee performance, to include rewards and disciplinary actions.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
