Responsibilities: - Evaluate community needs and, with relevant key partners, promotes community values related to diversity, equity, and inclusion, social justice programs and policies through appropriate programs, meetings, committees, and other outreach.
- Fosters cultural competence and social justice by working with division directors and department chairs to create, audit, document and align and promote inclusive curricula across all grade levels.
- Participates in recruitment efforts to attract, develop, support, motivate, and retain diverse faculty, staff, and administration
- Partners with the admissions team to help identify, recruit, and retain a diverse student body.
- In collaboration with admissions, communications and other key partners, develops a messaging strategy and creates engaging diversity-related content to share across internal and external channels with key constituencies.
- Develops and supports professional development experiences in diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging for members of the Portledge community.
- Create DEI training for all new employees
- Collaborate with teachers cross-divisionally about social emotional needs, academic opportunities and strategies with a specific lens for BIPOC students and families.
- Visible presence at school events including but not limited to Orientation, New Student Events, PA Events, Back to School Nights, Open Houses, Athletics, Arts, Graduation and other End of Year events which typically involves weekend and evening availability.
- Serves as administrative liaison on the following Board committees: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion.
- In collaboration with key partners, supports the ongoing development of age-appropriate affinity group programming and develops rubrics for assessing effectiveness.
- Empowers students to act as agents of progressive change.
- Serves as voice in discipline by working with the division heads and deans.
- Serve as a resource and sounding-board on issues of inclusion and diversity for all members of the school community.
- Maintains positive, trust-based relationships with a range of community stakeholders.
Additional Responsibilities:
- Designs and organizes DEI student programming in collaboration with division directors in all divisions.
- Attends and contributes to meetings during and after the school day, including but not limited to: department, committee, division, policy, counseling, and grade-level meetings.
- Organizes student and employee attendance at yearly NAIS PoCC/SDLC Conference.
- Other relevant projects, tasks, and duties as assigned.
Qualifications of the ideal candidate: - BA required, graduate work strongly preferred.
- 8-10 years of experience in the field of education, particularly with focus on DEI programs, curricular development, policies, and practices.
- Experience in strategic planning and developing DEI initiatives, including hiring and training practices, in school settings.
- Demonstrated ability to communicate and collaborate effectively with a range of constituencies.
- Teaching and/or training experience is essential, with three to five years of experience preferred; Skill as an evaluator of others’ performance will also be preferred.
- Our ideal candidate will have excellent communication and problem-solving skills, good judgment, creativity, initiative, and sense of humor and be a highly collaborative, resilient, flexible, diplomatic, confident, patient leader who is possessed of a sense of humor and professional presence and the ability to inspire others in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
- Proficiency with Google Suite and commitment to staying abreast of current trends and literature regarding the DEI field, education technology, and applications to support teaching and learning.
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