Director/Assistant Dean Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility
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- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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- Champaign, Illinois
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Job Details
The School of Information Sciences seeks a Director/Assistant Dean, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility, identify and create opportunities to promote diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility throughout the School of Information Sciences (iSchool), including our culture, educational programs, research, and public engagement.
The University of Illinois is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action employer that recruits and hires qualified candidates without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability or veteran status. For more information, visit http://go.illinois.edu/EEO.
As noted in the University’s Call to Action to Address Racism and Social Injustice (https://diversity.illinois.edu/2020/07/27/call-to-address-racism-social-injustice/), promotion of diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility will encompass “a series of actions, investments, programs and policy reform efforts.” This will be a shared responsibility of iSchool faculty, staff, and students. Reporting to the Dean of the School of Information Sciences, the Director/Assistant Dean, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility, will collaborate with others in the iSchool on diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) initiatives. The Director/Assistant Dean provides professional expertise, strategic leadership and innovation, administrative oversight, and collaborative guidance for this work.
Major Duties and Responsibilities
Recruitment and Fundraising (30%)
Collaborate with Recruitment & Admissions, Program Chairs, and Student Affairs staff on recruiting and retaining more diverse students.
Collaborate with faculty and other staff including the Director of Human Resources on recruiting and retaining more diverse faculty and staff.
Collaborate with faculty and other staff including Advancement & Alumni Affairs on efforts to secure financial support for the DEIA initiatives of the iSchool through campus and external funding, including identifying priorities and strategies for fundraising.
Teaching, Training and Research (25%)
Collaborate with faculty and program committees to identify opportunities to diversify the curriculum and improve pedagogy for inclusive and accessible classrooms.
Identify DEIA education and training needs and opportunities for faculty, staff, and students; plan, organize, and depending on subject matter expertise, make presentations at DEIA programs and activities.
(Asst dean only:) Identify DEIA education and training needs and opportunities for faculty, staff, and students; develop, lead, plan, organize, and depending on subject matter expertise, make presentations at DEIA programs and activities.
Assist Research Services in identifying research opportunities that engage with DEIA issues.
School, University, and Professional Service (15%)
Serve as an ex officio member of the iSchool Diversity Committee and Curriculum Committee.
Build relationships and actively engage with colleagues in other colleges and the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (OVCDEI).
Represent the iSchool on relevant university committees.
Build relationships with peer institutions to support knowledge sharing and partnership around DEIA efforts.
Consultation (10%)
Serve as a resource for addressing DEIA-related concerns raised by faculty, staff, and students, collaborating with the Director of Human Resources as needed.
Leadership and Administration (20%)
Provide strategic vision, leadership, and overall administration for iSchool DEIA activities.
Develop and implement measurable goals and metrics, and use data (both quantitative and qualitative), research, and evidence-based practice to identify and promote change in policies and practices that present barriers to equity, access, and inclusion.
Develop and oversee budgets.
Qualifications:
Education:
Required:
Master’s degree in information science, education, human resource development, psychology, social work, or a related field.
Preferred:
Continuing professional development providing more in-depth expertise in diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility.
Experience:
Required:
For the title of Director, a minimum of five years of experience in a professional setting with a significant focus on advancing DEIA.
For the title of Assistant Dean, a minimum of eight years of experience in a professional setting with a significant focus on advancing DEIA.
Demonstrated success in working with diverse populations.
Demonstrated ability to successfully plan, manage, and complete projects.
Preferred:
Familiarity with higher education environment.
Demonstrated ability to design, develop, and conduct effective education and training.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
Demonstrated awareness of DEIA best practices.
Strong communication, interpersonal, and problem-solving skills.
Able to work independently, collaboratively, and to lead others.
Capacity for strategic program planning and response to emerging opportunities.
Willingness to take initiative.
Salary and Appointment Information:
This is a full-time, benefits-eligible Academic Professional position appointed on a 12-month service basis. Interviews may occur before the closing date; however, all applications received by the closing date will receive full consideration. The proposed start date is as soon as possible after the search closing date. Salary is commensurate with experience.
To Apply:
To ensure full consideration, complete applications must be submitted by April 17, 2022. To apply, please visit http://jobs.illinois.edu and upload your cover letter, resume, and the names and contact information of three professional references.
For further information about this specific position and the application process, please contact ischool-hr@illinois.edu. Additional information about the iSchool is available on our website at ischool.illinois.edu.
University of Illinois faculty, staff and students are required to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. If you are not able to receive the vaccine for medical or religious reasons, you may seek approval for an exemption in accordance with applicable University processes.
University of Illinois conducts criminal background checks on all job candidates upon acceptance of a contingent offer. Convictions are not a bar to employment. As a qualifying federal contractor, the University of Illinois System uses E-Verify to verify employment eligibility. The University of Illinois System requires candidates selected for hire to disclose any documented finding of sexual misconduct or sexual harassment and to authorize inquiries to current and former employers regarding findings of sexual misconduct or sexual harassment. For more information, visit Policy on Consideration of Sexual Misconduct in Prior Employment.
Organization
Since its founding in 1867, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has earned a reputation as a world-class leader in research, teaching, and public engagement.
Faculty
A talented and highly respected faculty is the University's most significant resource. Many are recognized for exceptional scholarship with memberships in such organizations as the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences, and the National Academy of Engineering.
Our faculty have been awarded Nobel Prizes, Pulitzer Prizes, and the Fields Medal in Mathematics.The success of our faculty is matched by that of our alumni: 11 are Nobel laureates and another 18 have won Pulitzer Prizes.
Academic Resources
Academic resources on campus are among the finest in the world. The University Library is one of the largest public university collections in the world with 11 million volumes in its 37 unit libraries. Annually, 53,000,000 people visit its online catalog. Students have access to thousands of computer terminals in classrooms, residence halls, and campus libraries for use in classroom instruction, study, and research.
Research
Students and scholars find the University an ideal place to conduct research. The Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology is a model for interdisciplinary research, where eighteen research groups from sixteen University departments work within and across three broadly defined themes: biological intelligence, human-computer intelligent interaction, and molecular and electronic nanostructures. The University is also home to the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA).
Undergraduate Education
The University has a fundamental commitment to undergraduate education. Nearly 28,000 undergraduate students are enrolled in nine undergraduate divisions, which together offer some 4,000 courses in more than 150 fields of study.
Undergraduate admission is highly selective. In the 2001 freshman class, students in the middle 50% had ACT scores between 25 and 30 and ranked between the 83rd and 96th percentiles of their high school graduating classes.
The University enrolls over 9,000 graduate and professional students in more than 100 disciplines. It is among the top five universities in number of earned doctorates awarded annually in the United States.
Also integral to the University's mission is a commitment to public engagement. Each year about 65,000 Illinois residents participate in scores of conferences, institutes, courses, and workshops presented statewide. Research and class projects take students and professors off campus to share expertise and technical support with Illinois farmers, manufacturing firms, and businesses. In a typical year, student volunteers log more than 60,000 volunteer hours.
The Arts
A major center for the arts, the campus attracts dozens of nationally and internationally renowned artists each year to its widely acclaimed Krannert Center for the Performing Arts. The University also supports two major museums: the Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion; and the Spurlock Museum, a museum of world history and culture.
Other major facilities include the multipurpose Assembly Hall (16,500 seats); Memorial Stadium (70,000 seats), site of Big Ten Conference football games; and the Intramural-Physical Education Building, one of the largest recreational facilities of its kind on a university campus.
Inclusive Illinois, one campus, many voices
Inclusive Illinois is the University’s commitment to cultivating a community at Illinois where everyone is welcomed, celebrated, and respected. Illinois is about how we value difference to make a difference. http://www.inclusiveillinois.illinois.edu/
As evidence of the University’s commitment to enhance the working, living, and learning environment for faculty, staff, and students, the University will encourage a standard of conduct and behavior that is consistent with the values of inclusivity. In an environment of inclusivity, there is no place for acts of hatred, intolerance, insensitivity, bigotry, threats of violence, harassment or discrimination.
Inclusive Illinois, one campus, many voices
Inclusive Illinois is the University’s commitment to cultivating a community at Illinois where everyone is welcomed, celebrated, and respected. Through education, engagement, and excellence, each voice creates the Inclusive Illinois Experience.
How can we appreciate difference to make a difference?
Illinois is the place where we embrace difference. We embrace it because we value it. We value it because we know that we have so much to learn from each other in our living, learning, and working environment.
Illinois is the place where we recognize the power of possibility and where great potential is realized. Inclusive Illinois is the vision of that place: a vision made real by leadership and commitment.
Illinois is the place where consensus is forged by discourse and where everyone’s contributions are recognized: significant contributions that elevate us because they are informed and enhanced by race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation and gender identity, age, physical ability, religion, class, and national origin. We are enriched by these perspectives, and we are united by the very discourse that brings these views together.
It is a process. It is transformative. And we celebrate the remarkable changes we set in motion here … taking an important step … crossing boundaries … starting with our own.
It all starts with each of us: with our willingness to embark on the journey in the search for answers, and with our openness and acceptance of the answers we find. Illinois is the place where it all comes together.
Learn more about how Inclusive Illinois promotes diversity here.
Commitment to Equal Opportunity
The commitment of the University to the most fundamental principles of academic freedom, equality of opportunity, and human dignity requires that decisions involving students and employees be based on individual merit and be free from invidious discrimination in all its forms, whether or not specifically prohibited by law. Among the forms of invidious discrimination prohibited by the University policy but not law is discrimination, including harassment, on the basis of sexual orientation. Complaints of invidious discrimination in violation of University policy are to be resolved within existing University procedures. The policy of the University of Illinois is to comply with all federal and state nondiscrimination, equal opportunity, and affirmative action laws, orders, and regulations. The University will not engage in discrimination or harassment against any person because of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, disability, unfavorable discharge from the military, or status as a disabled veteran or a veteran of the Vietnam era. This nondiscrimination policy applies to admissions, employment, and access to and treatment in University programs and activities
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