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Chief Diversity Officer, School of Business

Employer
Wake Forest University
Location
Winston Salem, NC

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Job Details

Job location: Winston Salem, NC


Employment Type: Full-time
Posted data: 2019-11-05
Req: R0002193
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Job Description Summary

Job Title: Chief Diversity Officer
Department: School of Business
Reports to: Dean, School of Business

Summary: Leads our school-wide efforts towards becoming a truly inclusive community for all of our members. Responsible for formulating and implementing shared vision and impactful strategies to enhance sense of belonging for our students, colleagues, and alumni. Guides all of our programs, offices, and functions to optimize their processes towards our goals of inclusion, equity and diversity.

Job Description

Essential Functions:

  • Leads efforts to continuously update our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) vision and strategy and communicate progress; partners with faculty colleagues, staff members, campus leaders, student leaders and external constituents to ensure our DEI plan aligns with the School of Business and WFU’s strategic plans
  • Facilitates collaborations within our school (among faculty, staff, students, alumni, board members, and corporate partners) and between the business school and university offices to provide advocacy and support for marginalized groups in our community
  • Partners with DEI-focused university-wide offices (e.g. Office of Diversity & Inclusion) and other resources (e.g. Center for Advancement of Teaching, Human Resources, corporate partners, and donors) to coordinate and resource our DEI initiatives
  • Leads a business school council of internal diversity advocates to continuously gain input about the lived experiences of our colleagues and modify our DEI strategy and plans accordingly
  • Guides our faculty affairs and administrative teams to ensure that our faculty and staff talent acquisition, retention and management processes are aligned with our DEI goals
  • Curates an impactful professional development plan for our faculty and staff to enhance our capacity to create an inclusive culture and leverage our diversity; works with faculty to foster the development of inclusive pedagogy and scholarship
  • Leads efforts to communicate (internally and externally) the importance of DEI to our school and advises and supports our leadership team on responding effectively to incidents that are inconsistent with our DEI values
  • Establishes and maintains a scorecard to measure key elements of our DEI strategy, including representational diversity, and works with school’s leadership team to align program, departmental and office goals with it
  • Continuously reviews our organizational practices, policies, processes and structures across all of our programs, centers and functions to identify needed improvements towards achieving our DEI goals
  • Organizes events and related initiatives to celebrate our diversity and contributions to our inclusiveness by colleagues

Required Education, Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:

  • Master’s degree plus 10 years’ leadership experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience
  • Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work professionally, courteously and effectively with a wide range of constituencies in a diverse community, including students, faculty, staff, and administrators
  • Visionary, evidence-based leadership that looks to the outside for inspiration
  • Experience in cultural change management
  • Conflict resolution skills -- ability to deal calmly and effectively with others, under sometimes stressful conditions
  • Demonstrated ability to be a self-starter, one who takes initiative and who can work with minimal supervision
  • Ability to maintain confidentiality of sensitive information and records in accordance with state and federal laws and professional ethics; ability to manage and distribute information appropriately.

Preferred Education, Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:

  • Prior leadership experience in academic environment preferred

Accountabilities:

  • Direct management of any relevant staff, and management of department budget(s)

Note:

This position profile identifies the key responsibilities and expectations for performance. It cannot encompass all specific job tasks that an employee may be required to perform. Employees are required to follow any other job-related instructions and perform job-related duties as may be reasonably assigned by his/her supervisor.

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Time Type Requirement

Full timeNote to Applicant:This position profile identifies the key responsibilities and expectations for performance. It cannot encompass all specific job tasks that an employee may be required to perform. Employees are required to follow any other job-related instructions and perform job-related duties as may be reasonably assigned by his/her supervisor.

In order to provide a safe and productive learning and living community, Wake Forest University conducts background investigations and drug screens for all final staff candidates being considered for employment.

Wake Forest seeks to recruit and retain a diverse workforce while promoting an inclusive work environment committed to excellence in the spirit of Pro Humanitate. In adherence with applicable laws and as provided by University policies, the University prohibits discrimination in its employment practices on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, genetic information, disability and veteran status and encourages qualified candidates across all group demographics to apply.

Organization

Wake Forest University, formed in 1834, has experienced decades of growth and innovation.  WFU is a distinctive university that combines a liberal arts core with graduate and professional schools and innovative research programs.  The University embraces the teacher-scholar ideal, which prizes the personal interaction between students and faculty.  It is a place where exceptional teaching, fundamental research and discovery, and the engagement of faculty and students in the classroom and the laboratory are paramount.

Wake Forest University is a community that seeks the enlightenment and freedom which come through diligent study and learning. Its higher goal, however, is to give life to the University motto "Pro Humanitate," as members translate a passion for knowledge into compassionate service. The community shares a tradition that embraces freedom and integrity and acknowledges the worth of the individual. The heritage, established by the school's founders and nurtured by succeeding generations, promotes a democratic spirit arising from open-mindedness and discourse. Wake Forest fosters compassion and caring for others. Its collective strength and character are derived from the values and distinctive experiences of each individual; therefore, it affirms the richness of human intellect and culture and its contribution to knowledge, faith, reason, and dialogue. Furthermore, it strives toward a society in which good will, respect, and equality prevail. To that end, Wake Forest University rejects hatred and bigotry in any form and promotes justice, honor, and mutual trust.​

The University is comprised of:  the undergraduate college, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, School of Business, School of Divinity, School of Law, and School of Medicine (located on the Bowman Gray campus with Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center) and today enrolls about 4,846 undergraduates and 2,823 students in graduate programs at its principal location, the Reynolda campus.  Students at Wake Forest University enjoy a great deal of access to and interaction with world-class faculty both in and out of the classroom setting with a student-faculty ratio of 11:1.  Wake Forest employs approximately 2,772 full and part-time faculty and staff.

Wake Forest is a collegiate university offering a vibrant, intellectual community with a rich cultural life, an impressive array of facilities, and a strong athletics program competing in the fifteen-team Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC).  Since its founding, the university has adopted the motto “pro humanitate,” which is exemplified by a deep institutional commitment to public service and engagement with the world. Wake Forest has a strong commitment to holistic, eight-dimensional well-being for students, faculty and staff as evidenced in the Thrive initiative.

Winston-Salem, NC

Wake Forest is located in Winston-Salem, NC, a beautiful, mid-sized city centrally located in the Piedmont-Triad region of North Carolina.  Winston-Salem is a family-friendly city with high quality schools, numerous outdoor recreational activities and events, and is known for its vibrant and thriving arts scene.

Winston-Salem residents enjoy close proximity to the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains (1.5 hours) and Atlantic beaches (4 hours), a moderate climate with four distinct seasons, a very reasonable cost of living, and an eclectic variety of restaurants, wine bars, and breweries for dining with friends and family.  Winston-Salem offers many of the amenities of a large city but with the sense of community and quality of life of a smaller town (www.visitwinstonsalem.com).

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