Context: The Equity Department is charged with transforming Sierra Club to become a more equitable, just, and inclusive organization. This position will play a key role in supporting this transformation through the management of programmatic staff, the support and leadership of change management processes, and the fostering of relationships with chapter leaders (regional grassroots support) and volunteers.
Scope: Reporting to the Equity Director, the Deputy Equity Director will act as a senior manager for equity-related matters.
Areas of Responsibility:
Management of Equity Program Staff
- Coach Sierra Club staff to develop skills that will help enhance personal development and equity based results-driven performance
- Make decisions regarding complex and sensitive personnel matters, including performance evaluations, hiring/promotion/termination, onboarding, labor relations, dispute resolution and mediation, etc from a frame of equity and inclusion.
- Engage with staff to assign work and establish standards and priorities, and in doing so promotes a healthy work-life balance
- Create a positive work culture that promotes team-building and honors the wisdom, ideas, skills, and labor of program staff
Manage a strategy within the Equity Department to build relationships and offer support for chapter volunteers and leaders
- Identify and implement pathways and resources for building bridges to chapter and volunteer leadership structures that will promote equity
- Work with the equity teams and other staff and volunteer teams to promote equity learning and education at the chapter level
- Identify volunteer equity needs and work with relevant stakeholders to develop solutions for meeting these needs
- Identify capacity and resources that can be made available to promote support for chapters on equity
Deputy Director functions
- Serve as a strategic thought partner for creating and leading organizational and transformational change initiatives to become a more equitable and just Sierra Club.
- Responsibly manage the Equity Department’s program budget and resources
- Represent the Equity Department at senior leadership functions, with external partners, and to build donor relations.
- Implement annual recommendations and lead the tasks necessary to drive progress on the Multi-Year Equity Plan and Equity Goals by engaging people at all levels of the organization
- Take a lead role in building and maintaining a team culture that reflects Sierra Club’s equity values.
Other responsibilities and projects, as assigned
- Engage in conflict resolution to mediate, resolve, or address disputes and on-going concerns while applying our Equity, Inclusion and Justice values.
- Promote communication across Sierra Club communities and in the movement to increase awareness of and support for equity change processes and initiatives.
Educational Background:
Bachelor’s degree and/or Educational Experience - preference on focus areas of diversity, behavioral change, adult learning/education and/or other areas related to social or racial justice. Graduate education is appreciated, but not necessary.
Skills/Experience:
- Displays strong leadership capabilities, vision and operates with perspective of equity and justice.
- Motivated by values of equity and responsibility to those most marginalized
- Must be able to take initiative and to work autonomously with high-level direction and with strong project management skills.
- Ability to openly hold space, and invite others into conversations, during sensitive engagements
- Ability to quickly learn and navigate organizational structure and processes
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, pushing to meet deadlines; must remain cool and calm under pressure.
- Ability to diagnose and successfully handle organizational development issues.
- Awareness of privilege (both personally and externally), and a commitment to both self-transformation/improvement
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills - must be an articulate and persuasive communicator to all levels
- Detail-oriented, proactive, excellent organization and time management skills, good collaborator.
- Strong commitment to creating a workplace culture grounded in the values of equity, inclusion and justice.
Experience:
- A working knowledge and understanding of the ways implicit bias, personal identity, and power and privilege impact individuals, organizations, systems, and structures.
- Demonstrated ability to provide strategic guidance on building organizational effectiveness on equity, talent development for direct reports, and performance management.
- Demonstrated track record of developing effective relationships across all levels of an organization.
- Demonstrated history of promoting collaboration and coordination to achieve goals in a strategic and timely way
- 4 years of work experience in the field of advocacy (preferably racial, social, economic or environmental justice)
- Must have at least 3 years of direct management experience
- Advocacy experience working with volunteers to create change
- Demonstrated ability to effectively navigate complex employee relations issues (experience with labor relations and matrix management is preferred)
- Experience working to address issues of discrimination on grounds of age, disability, gender, race, religion and sexual orientation in order to promote change.
Compensation/Benefits:
The Sierra Club offers competitive salary package commensurate with skills and experience plus excellent benefits that include medical, dental, and vision coverage, and a retirement savings 401(k) plan.
Job Function:
Organization Info
Listing Stats
Post Date:
Sep 9 2018
Active Until:
Oct 9 2018
Hiring Organization:
Sierra Club
industry:
Nonprofit