Job Description

Title: Deputy Chief Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Officer

State Role Title: Special Assistant

Hiring Range: $120,000 - $140,000

Pay Band: UG

Agency: Office of the Governor

Location: Richmond, E Broad St

Agency Website: www.diversity.virginia.gov

Recruitment Type: General Public - G

Job Duties

Provides second-line leadership to ensure the mission, vision, and core values of the administration are put into practice to drive an organizational strategy that advances access for all Virginians.

Manages competing priorities in a fast-past environment while collaborating across the administration to address organizational challenges to foster a sense of belonging among agencies and institutions of higher education.

Drives achievement of goals and objectives related to diversity, equity, and inclusion, including key performance metrics to measure progress across agencies and institutions of higher education.

Motivates a high-performing team by demonstrating sound decision making, fostering a success-oriented environment, and providing mentoring as a cornerstone to career development among emerging professionals.

Represents the office among both internal and external audiences, to include strategic engagement opportunities with hard-to-reach communities and meeting requests with constituents.

Performs other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications

To perform the job successfully, following competencies should be demonstrated to perform the essential functions of this position.

• Subject Matter Experience — The candidate can demonstrate technical experience in the discipline of diversity, equity, and inclusion, as well as human resources management, to include experience with staying current with thought leadership.

• Verbal and Written Communication — The candidate can develop high-quality deliverables to communicate complex information to various audiences, to include verbally via public speaking engagements, as well as in writing to include a background in drafting strategic plans, performance plans, executive summaries, annual reports, testimonies, policy position papers, agendas, memorandums, standard operating procedures, talking points, press releases, letters of recognition, social media captions, and briefing decks.

• Research and Analytics — The candidate can synthesize qualitative and quantitative data sources to inform decision making to include experience with developing dashboards with key performance metrics, as well as conducting studies and administering surveys to measure employee and/or external stakeholder engagement.

• Management and Supervision — The candidate can supervise teams across a distributed work environment, to include recruiting, interviewing, onboarding, training, coaching, and appraising employees, as well as mentoring emerging professionals.

• Political Acumen — The candidate can demonstrate familiarity with operations of state government, to include working relationships with elected officials, appointed officials, and civilian employees, as well as prior experience with the legislative policy-making process.

• Budget Management — The candidate can manage the annual budgeting process, to include personnel and operational costs, as well as the procurement process for contractual engagements with consultants and other vendors, to include small, women, and minority-owned businesses.

• Program Management — The candidate can execute programs to commemorate cultural heritage celebrations and special observances, to include collaborating with employee resource groups and community stakeholder groups.

• Training and Development – The candidate can develop and deploy developmental learning opportunities, to include in-person and/or virtual asynchronous training courses.

Additional Considerations

Provides day-to-day management of emerging professionals and carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the Commonwealth’s policies and applicable laws.

Recruits, interviews, and trains employees; directs and delegates work assignments among employees; and helps to appraise employee performance, to include rewards and disciplinary actions.

Special Instructions

This position is not telework eligible.

This is an At-Will position appointed by the Governor of Virginia. Selected applicant will need to successfully pass a criminal background check. Limited travel may be required. This position is based in Richmond, Virginia.

You will be provided a confirmation of receipt when your application and/or résumé is submitted successfully. Please refer to “Your Application” in your account to check the status of your application for this position.

Contact Information

Name: Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Phone: none

Email: diversity@governor.virginia.gov

In support of the Commonwealth’s commitment to inclusion, we are encouraging individuals with disabilities to apply through the Commonwealth Alternative Hiring Process. To be considered for this opportunity, applicants will need to provide their AHP Letter (formerly COD) provided by the Department for Aging & Rehabilitative Services (DARS), or the Department for the Blind & Vision Impaired (DBVI). Service-Connected Veterans are encouraged to answer Veteran status questions and submit their disability documentation, if applicable, to DARS/DBVI to get their AHP Letter. Requesting an AHP Letter can be found at AHP Letter or by calling DARS at 800-552-5019.

Note Applicants who received a Certificate of Disability from DARS or DBVI dated between April 1, 2022- February 29, 2024, can still use that COD as applicable documentation for the Alternative Hiring Process.