Executive Director, Office of Equity, Access, and Diversity Education

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Budget

Title:

Senior Personnel Associate (MP-4, Management Confidential)*

Salary: $125,000 - $130,000

The Executive Director, Office of Equity, Access, and Diversity Education serves as a collaborative leader who serves as the university's Affine Action Officer and Title VI Coordinator. This position assists with ensuring compliance with federal and state laws and regulations with respect to ADA and Title VI compliance by leading the university's bias response process and Title VI Committee. The Executive Director supervises the ADA Workplace Accommodation Specialist, Title VI Specialist, and U Diversity Educational Institute and serves as the liaison for the Truth Racial Healing Transformation Campus Center.

This position reports to the vice president of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Division of Diversity, and Inclusion.

The executive director reviews practices, policies, and implements data collection tools to analyze metrics to assist with the improvement of the processes, and use of metrics to enhance improvement (i.e., EEO, ADA compliance, Title VI, Bias Incidents). The person is also responsible for the design, and delivery of the Inclusive Pedagogy Series through the U Diversity Educational Institute along with the supervision of its professional staff, and its budget.

The Executive Director reports to the VP of DEI to oversee discrimination investigations, manage Title VI and affirmative action policies, and deliver campus-wide compliance training. Additionally, this role serves as a primary advisory resource on institutional complaint processes for faculty, staff, and students.

• Assists with the administration of the University's Americans with Disability Act (ADA) and the Pregnancy Workers Fairness Act to determine reasonable accommodations for employees, the maintenance of records, and the preparation and submission of required internal and external reports in accordance with federal and state compliance regulations.
• Designs and implements self-audit systems to ensure that programs and processes are in compliance with regulatory standards.
• Chairs the Title VI Committee and Bias Incident Response Team. Develops and implements case management plan for each reported incident falling under the Affine Act on Officer's purview. Conducts investigations, writes summaries, findings of fact and recommendation(s).

• Conducts review of complaints of Title VI and other complaints of discrimination where protected classes are implicated.
• Investigations include interviews of complainants, respondents, witnesses, and management, and a review of relevant documentation, physical evidence, or statistical information.
• Acts as a representative of the University regarding discrimination complaints filed to state and federal agencies.
• May assist with the referral of mediation of workplace and classroom conflicts for faculty, staff, and students upon request.
• May liaise with Human Resources regarding faculty and staff issues.

• Serves as the institutional liaison to the American Association of Colleges and Universities Truth Racial Healing Transformation Campus Center.
• Collaborates with the Vice President of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and other college personnel to develop and maintain a collaborative approach to foster diversity, equity and inclusion.
• Works with staff to identify procedures, programs and…