Vice President – Diversity – Equity – Inclusion and Belonging – Edib

Vice President – Diversity – Equity – Inclusion and Belonging – Edib

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree strongly preferred. An equivalent combination of education and experience may be accepted.
• 15+ years’ professional experience, to include at least 5 years at a senior management level with comparable staff and budget responsibilities.
• Strong leadership skills and strong business and management skills; demonstrated ability to inspire and motivate a must.
• Experienced organizational leader with an array of experience in equity, diversity, inclusion, and belonging.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications.
• Demonstrated ability to succeed in a highly matrixed, complex organization—strong ability to influence and persuade others required.
• Outstanding interpersonal skills, judgment, and a demonstrated ability to collaborate and build coalitions with a wide range of individuals.
• Demonstrated experience overseeing complex, multiple and/or geographically diverse projects through to success, including meeting financial goals, project deadlines, and coordinating the work of key staff.
• Excellent and persuasive communication skills, both written and verbal, including substantial public speaking experience.
• Willingness and ability to travel routinely throughout the state and nationally, as required.
• Commitment to Audubon’s organizational values of care, collaboration, change, integrity, impact, and innovation.
• Demonstrated personal and professional commitment to and experience in advancing equity, diversity, inclusion, and belonging.

Responsibilities

• Analyzes, plans, and organizes multiple initiatives, such as spearheading the development of employee resource groups, the development of an EDIB data dashboard, management of reporting mechanisms and language services.
• Exercises sound judgment in handling sensitive and confidential information and situations.
• Responsible for management of administrative and training needs for all affinity groups and EDIB staff committees within the organization.
• Monitor team performance by developing both an action plan for affinity groups and EDIB staff committees and updating an annual scorecard.
• Maintain positive relationships throughout the organization and with the executive sponsors for each affinity group and the EDIB staff committees. Ensures continued engagement of team members and Executive sponsors.
• Responsible for attending team meetings. Facilitates and/or moderates meetings; Ensures meeting objectives are met and the team members remain on point. When sensitive issues arise, they must understand when and how to escalate them when necessary.
• Oversight and coordination of all affinity groups and EDIB staff committees across the National Audubon Society.
• Acts with a strong sense of urgency and skill to make important decisions quickly.
• Provides an overview of the status of all affinity groups and EDIB staff committees.
• Writes success stories for communications via both internet and intranet.
• Collaborates with the Communications Team to develop content to be added to both Intranet and Internet sites. Maintains schedule for all affinity groups and EDIB staff committees’ activities across enterprise.
• Responsible for understanding and following internal event planning protocols across the organization and for external functions.
• Leads event planning functions, securing venue, ordering food, preparing marketing materials.
• Builds relationships with departments within each delivery network that manage event planning activities. Orders items for teams and department and work with purchasing. Assists in the development and maintenance of budget for the fiscal year.
• Serve as a strategic consultant to Executive and Senior Leaders at all levels of the organization.
• Works with members of the EDIB Team to develop and implement strategies to engage National Audubon Society staff to help create a diverse, equitable, inclusive, and accessible working and learning environment, ensuring our workforce reflects the communities that we serve.
• Serve as a change agent by challenging the status quo processes, policies, and practices to create learning and working environments where everyone feels valued and has the opportunity to succeed.
• Create a sustainable infrastructure around current equity, diversity, inclusion, and belonging initiatives.
• Plan, implement and track the National Audubon Society’s efforts towards developing a more diverse, inclusive, and equitable community; establish a system of accountability using data and reporting.
• Demonstrate leadership with an entrepreneurial approach to program development and implementation of an operational plan while establishing dynamic relationships with staff.
• Forge alliances and strategic relationships with the community to develop more effective approaches to increasing diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging.
• Provide recurring educational opportunity on diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging topics that encourage the organization to become better versed in issues of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging.
• Interacts with co-workers, visitors, and other staff consistent with the values of the organization.
• Partner with Audubon staff to ensure that equity, diversity, inclusion and belonging principles are incorporated and followed in all aspects of our work.
• Other job-related duties as assigned.

Preferred Qualifications

No preferred qualifications provided.