Job no: 544206
Work type: Management (MPP)
Location: Northridge
Categories: MPP, Administrative, At-Will, Full Time
Position Description

QUALIFICATIONS:

Minimum Qualifications:

• A Master’s degree from a regionally accredited institution.
• A minimum of eight years full time work experience advancing equity and inclusion initiatives through best practice programs, education, and awareness, at least five years of which must be in a leadership capacity.
• At least three years of demonstrated and direct experience in building financial capacity to enact equity and inclusive excellence initiatives through the successful securement of federal, state or private grants and philanthropic investment.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Doctorate degree from a regionally accredited institution.
• Experience in higher education and a university system setting.
• Demonstration of in-depth, contemporary knowledge on issues of: access, inclusion, diversity, equity, and multiculturalism in a large complex organizational setting, with a strong lens of intersectional understanding regarding race, gender, sexuality, disability, immigration status, veteran status, and other dimensions of personal and social identity.
• Demonstrated experience in implementing intersectional approaches in the advancement of equity and inclusive excellence in a learning and working environment.
• Demonstrated record of collecting and using data to assess the effectiveness of initiatives and to achieve measurable results.
• Demonstration of well-developed skills in facilitating inclusive dialogues that enable positive growth.
• Demonstrated experience in developing and translating strategic goals into actionable plans for implementation, and experience in institutional change management.
• Demonstrated record of building consensus, finding support and working through competing interests.
• Outstanding written and verbal skills and the ability to convey complex information and concepts in accessible terms, that are relevant and meaningful to specific communities.
• Outstanding interpersonal communication skills including the modeling of curiosity, listening to learn and understand, diplomacy, inclusion, and consensus building to inform the decision-making process and sophisticated relational ability to connect with others across intersectional identities and belief systems.
• Demonstration of anticipatory, solution-oriented thinking around broad cultural and societal concerns.
• Crisis management experience and the ability to provide intellectual and emotional leadership, bringing communities together during challenging and sometimes public or high-profile circumstances.
• A high level of energy, focus and the capacity to effectively partner with the president, cabinet, deans, faculty, staff, and students of diverse backgrounds.
• Demonstrated success in leading a team and the willingness to serve as a motivator and mentor to staff while achieving university, division and unit goals.

More information can be found in the institutional profile at https://www.academicsearch.org/open-searches-public/entry/20279/?search=20279.

Please refer the Job description for details