Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA, USA
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) seeks a strategic and visionary leader to serve as its next Institute Community and Equity Officer (ICEO). The ICEO will serve as a thought leader with depth of knowledge on diversity, equity, and inclusion. Supporting senior leadership, the ICEO will help actualize the Institute’s vision of advancing a respectful and caring community that embraces diversity. This is a rare opportunity for an accomplished and collaborative individual to engage MIT faculty, staff, students, and alumni to build a welcoming and inclusive learning and working culture.
MIT is among the world’s preeminent institutions of higher learning committed to generating, disseminating, and preserving knowledge and to working with others to bring this knowledge to bear on the world’s greatest challenges. The Institute has more than 1,000 faculty members and over 11,000 undergraduate and graduate students in its five schools and one college. Throughout its history, the Institute has attracted remarkably talented and entrepreneurial leaders, faculty, researchers, and students. Its alumni have achieved extraordinary success and made significant contributions to society.
The Institute Community and Equity Office serves as a focal point for organizing MIT’s activities and conversations related to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Drawing on the strength and energy of MIT’s diversity of experiences and backgrounds, the office and its partners will lead the Institute to make practical progress on a daily basis toward cultivating a caring community focused on MIT’s shared values of excellence, meritocracy, openness, integrity, and mutual respect. This work will be carried out in ways that enhance the life and work of MIT faculty, students, postdocs, and staff, with the aim of making everyone at the Institute feel that MIT is home.
Reporting directly to the provost, the ICEO will work in close collaboration with the associate provost in leading and fostering inclusive and equitable strategy and practices. The ICEO will lead the development and implementation of a strategic action plan for community, inclusion, and equity that leverages current efforts; create a sustainable infrastructure around current and new diversity and inclusion initiatives; and establish a system of accountability using data and reporting. The successful candidate will be a sophisticated relationship builder and an experienced practitioner who disseminates best practices, inspiring the awareness and enthusiasm to help inclusion and equity flourish at the Institute.
All inquiries, nominations/referrals, and resumes with cover letters should be sent electronically and in confidence to Keight Tucker Kennedy or Carmen Delehanty at Isaacson, Miller.
To apply, please visit: www.imsearch.com/7165
MIT is an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, ancestry, or national or ethnic origin. The Institute Community and Equity Office values diversity and inclusion and seeks to build and maintain a community and culture that celebrates and values diverse backgrounds, identities and perspectives.
Sep 13, 2019
Full time
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) seeks a strategic and visionary leader to serve as its next Institute Community and Equity Officer (ICEO). The ICEO will serve as a thought leader with depth of knowledge on diversity, equity, and inclusion. Supporting senior leadership, the ICEO will help actualize the Institute’s vision of advancing a respectful and caring community that embraces diversity. This is a rare opportunity for an accomplished and collaborative individual to engage MIT faculty, staff, students, and alumni to build a welcoming and inclusive learning and working culture.
MIT is among the world’s preeminent institutions of higher learning committed to generating, disseminating, and preserving knowledge and to working with others to bring this knowledge to bear on the world’s greatest challenges. The Institute has more than 1,000 faculty members and over 11,000 undergraduate and graduate students in its five schools and one college. Throughout its history, the Institute has attracted remarkably talented and entrepreneurial leaders, faculty, researchers, and students. Its alumni have achieved extraordinary success and made significant contributions to society.
The Institute Community and Equity Office serves as a focal point for organizing MIT’s activities and conversations related to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Drawing on the strength and energy of MIT’s diversity of experiences and backgrounds, the office and its partners will lead the Institute to make practical progress on a daily basis toward cultivating a caring community focused on MIT’s shared values of excellence, meritocracy, openness, integrity, and mutual respect. This work will be carried out in ways that enhance the life and work of MIT faculty, students, postdocs, and staff, with the aim of making everyone at the Institute feel that MIT is home.
Reporting directly to the provost, the ICEO will work in close collaboration with the associate provost in leading and fostering inclusive and equitable strategy and practices. The ICEO will lead the development and implementation of a strategic action plan for community, inclusion, and equity that leverages current efforts; create a sustainable infrastructure around current and new diversity and inclusion initiatives; and establish a system of accountability using data and reporting. The successful candidate will be a sophisticated relationship builder and an experienced practitioner who disseminates best practices, inspiring the awareness and enthusiasm to help inclusion and equity flourish at the Institute.
All inquiries, nominations/referrals, and resumes with cover letters should be sent electronically and in confidence to Keight Tucker Kennedy or Carmen Delehanty at Isaacson, Miller.
To apply, please visit: www.imsearch.com/7165
MIT is an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, ancestry, or national or ethnic origin. The Institute Community and Equity Office values diversity and inclusion and seeks to build and maintain a community and culture that celebrates and values diverse backgrounds, identities and perspectives.
The University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass) is a public research and land-grant university in Amherst, Massachusetts and the flagship of the University of Massachusetts system. With over 6,300 faculty and staff and more than 30,000 students, UMass Amherst is the largest public university in New England and is ranked among the top 30 public universities in the nation. The campus, located on nearly 1,450 acres in the scenic Pioneer Valley in Western Massachusetts, provides a rich cultural environment in a suburban setting yet close to major urban centers. In addition, the University is part of the Five Colleges Consortium (including Amherst College, Hampshire College, Mount Holyoke College, and Smith College), which adds to the intellectual energy of the region.
The senior director and deputy chief human resources officer provides expert advice and direction on matters of organizational design, employee relations, and other personnel matters for a diverse and dynamic campus community. The successful candidate will provide leadership and oversight to the Labor & Employee Relations, Workplace Learning and Development, and Partnership for Worker Education units, championing initiatives and efforts within these units and representing these areas campus wide. The University currently works with 11 collective bargaining units representing over 90% of University employees. The senior director will build excellent, collaborative departmental teams focused on creating synergy and workplace innovation; will lead strategic planning efforts for the Human Resources division in collaboration with the leadership team; and will partner with campus constituencies to advance Human Resources as an effective, strategic resource on campus.
The senior director will design and execute project plans which emphasize consensus building and effective implementation strategies across all of the campus’ decentralized Human Resources offices. In support of the University’s mission, the senior director will champion a metrics framework for Human Resources--leading efforts to identify and create a comprehensive metrics dashboard focused on improving organizational performance and providing stronger customer service and direction to the multiple Human Resources units located in the schools, colleges, and divisions that comprise this flagship campus. The senior director partners with the vice chancellor of human resources and senior campus leadership on campus initiatives which impact the University workforce, assisting on employee matters involving a high level of sensitivity, confidentiality, and/or complexity. The senior director has 5 direct reports, 18 professional and administrative support staff within their portfolio, and will assist in managing the divisional budget of approximately $4 million. Reporting to the vice chancellor and chief human resources officer and serving as a member of the human resources senior leadership team, the senior director leads the department in the absence of the vice chancellor.
The successful candidate must have an earned bachelor’s degree and a demonstrated record of progressive and substantive responsibilities and management of human resource functions—including experience supervising and managing a team of human resource professionals preferably in an organization with union employees. A master's degree or juris doctor, progressive human resource experience with at least two years in an executive role in higher education or similarly complex non-profit, HRCI or SHRM certification, and experience with labor relations are preferred. The successful candidate will be a data driven leader, with experience creating systems to monitor key performance indicators, and will have led change processes in a complex, decentralized environment. A strategic thinker and planner with the expertise, energy, and interpersonal skills to build and cultivate influential and credible relationships across the organization and lead programs to new levels of excellence will be needed for this inaugural position. The successful candidate must be knowledgeable of evolving employment and employee relations trends; possess strategic change management skills coupled with strong staff, organizational development, and budget management abilities; demonstrate strong supervisory and team-building capabilities; and possess a goal-oriented, data-driven approach to generating measurable outcomes and assessments of services.
Review of applications will begin October 1, 2019 and continue until the position is filled. A resume with an accompanying cover letter may be submitted via the Spelman Johnson website at www.spelmanjohnson.com/open-positions . Nominations for this position may be emailed to Anne-Marie Kenney at amk@spelmanjohnson.com or Ellen Heffernan at eth@spelmanjohnson.com . Applicants needing reasonable accommodation to participate in the application process should contact Spelman Johnson at 413-529-2895.
Visit the UMass Amherst website at www.umass.edu
UMass Amherst is committed to a policy of equal opportunity without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, age, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, disability, military status, or genetic information in employment, admission to and participation in academic programs, activities, and services, and the selection of vendors who provide services or products to the University. To fulfill that policy, UMass Amherst is further committed to a program of affirmative action to eliminate or mitigate artificial barriers and to increase opportunities for the recruitment and advancement of qualified minorities, women, persons with disabilities, and covered veterans. It is the policy of the UMass Amherst to comply with the applicable federal and state statutes, rules, and regulations concerning equal opportunity and affirmative action.
Sep 05, 2019
Full time
The University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass) is a public research and land-grant university in Amherst, Massachusetts and the flagship of the University of Massachusetts system. With over 6,300 faculty and staff and more than 30,000 students, UMass Amherst is the largest public university in New England and is ranked among the top 30 public universities in the nation. The campus, located on nearly 1,450 acres in the scenic Pioneer Valley in Western Massachusetts, provides a rich cultural environment in a suburban setting yet close to major urban centers. In addition, the University is part of the Five Colleges Consortium (including Amherst College, Hampshire College, Mount Holyoke College, and Smith College), which adds to the intellectual energy of the region.
The senior director and deputy chief human resources officer provides expert advice and direction on matters of organizational design, employee relations, and other personnel matters for a diverse and dynamic campus community. The successful candidate will provide leadership and oversight to the Labor & Employee Relations, Workplace Learning and Development, and Partnership for Worker Education units, championing initiatives and efforts within these units and representing these areas campus wide. The University currently works with 11 collective bargaining units representing over 90% of University employees. The senior director will build excellent, collaborative departmental teams focused on creating synergy and workplace innovation; will lead strategic planning efforts for the Human Resources division in collaboration with the leadership team; and will partner with campus constituencies to advance Human Resources as an effective, strategic resource on campus.
The senior director will design and execute project plans which emphasize consensus building and effective implementation strategies across all of the campus’ decentralized Human Resources offices. In support of the University’s mission, the senior director will champion a metrics framework for Human Resources--leading efforts to identify and create a comprehensive metrics dashboard focused on improving organizational performance and providing stronger customer service and direction to the multiple Human Resources units located in the schools, colleges, and divisions that comprise this flagship campus. The senior director partners with the vice chancellor of human resources and senior campus leadership on campus initiatives which impact the University workforce, assisting on employee matters involving a high level of sensitivity, confidentiality, and/or complexity. The senior director has 5 direct reports, 18 professional and administrative support staff within their portfolio, and will assist in managing the divisional budget of approximately $4 million. Reporting to the vice chancellor and chief human resources officer and serving as a member of the human resources senior leadership team, the senior director leads the department in the absence of the vice chancellor.
The successful candidate must have an earned bachelor’s degree and a demonstrated record of progressive and substantive responsibilities and management of human resource functions—including experience supervising and managing a team of human resource professionals preferably in an organization with union employees. A master's degree or juris doctor, progressive human resource experience with at least two years in an executive role in higher education or similarly complex non-profit, HRCI or SHRM certification, and experience with labor relations are preferred. The successful candidate will be a data driven leader, with experience creating systems to monitor key performance indicators, and will have led change processes in a complex, decentralized environment. A strategic thinker and planner with the expertise, energy, and interpersonal skills to build and cultivate influential and credible relationships across the organization and lead programs to new levels of excellence will be needed for this inaugural position. The successful candidate must be knowledgeable of evolving employment and employee relations trends; possess strategic change management skills coupled with strong staff, organizational development, and budget management abilities; demonstrate strong supervisory and team-building capabilities; and possess a goal-oriented, data-driven approach to generating measurable outcomes and assessments of services.
Review of applications will begin October 1, 2019 and continue until the position is filled. A resume with an accompanying cover letter may be submitted via the Spelman Johnson website at www.spelmanjohnson.com/open-positions . Nominations for this position may be emailed to Anne-Marie Kenney at amk@spelmanjohnson.com or Ellen Heffernan at eth@spelmanjohnson.com . Applicants needing reasonable accommodation to participate in the application process should contact Spelman Johnson at 413-529-2895.
Visit the UMass Amherst website at www.umass.edu
UMass Amherst is committed to a policy of equal opportunity without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, age, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, disability, military status, or genetic information in employment, admission to and participation in academic programs, activities, and services, and the selection of vendors who provide services or products to the University. To fulfill that policy, UMass Amherst is further committed to a program of affirmative action to eliminate or mitigate artificial barriers and to increase opportunities for the recruitment and advancement of qualified minorities, women, persons with disabilities, and covered veterans. It is the policy of the UMass Amherst to comply with the applicable federal and state statutes, rules, and regulations concerning equal opportunity and affirmative action.
Salem State University invites inquiries, nominations, and applications for the position of vice president for diversity and inclusion, the university’s chief diversity officer.
Located just 15 miles north of Boston in Salem, Massachusetts, and enrolling 8,500 students, Salem State has enjoyed a remarkable trajectory from its origins as a normal school focused exclusively on teacher preparation to a comprehensive public university with an array of undergraduate and graduate programs. The university provides a diverse community of learners a high-quality, student-centered education that prepares them to be leaders within their chosen professions and to contribute responsibly and creatively to a global society. Salem State serves as an important partner in the economic, cultural, and intellectual vitality of the state’s North Shore region.
Recognized as having the most diverse student body of the nine state universities, Salem State is deeply committed to fostering a culture of inclusion and belonging while achieving greater diversity among its faculty, staff, and students. The vice president for diversity and inclusion will build on efforts already underway to catalyze transformational change and further the university’s vision of a vibrant community characterized in all it does by a central commitment to inclusive excellence. The new vice president will find support structures and a community of students, staff, and faculty of diverse backgrounds and identities that are devoted to the urgency of the task. Salem State currently enjoys energetic student groups and active employee resource groups (ERGs) that promote diversity, openness, understanding, and inclusiveness, as well as regional and national affiliations in organizations such as the National Coalition Building Institute and the Leading for Change Higher Education Diversity Consortium.
Reporting to President John D. Keenan, who took office as Salem State’s 14th president in August 2017, the vice president for diversity and inclusion (vice president) will elevate the important work of transforming the university into a learning community where diversity and inclusion are woven throughout the fabric of the institution, where responsibility for inclusiveness extends to everyone on campus, and where the definition of inclusion is rooted in equity and social justice. The vice president will participate fully in the senior leadership of the university and serve on the President’s Executive Council and the President’s Leadership Cabinet; conduct an inventory of existing diversity and inclusion initiatives to identify strengths, gaps, and opportunities; guide the campus community in crafting and implementing a campuswide strategic plan for inclusive excellence; serve as a resource to schools, colleges, and divisions as they develop unit-level inclusive excellence strategic plans; develop and lead the university’s Office of Diversity and Inclusion; expand pathways for assessing, understanding, and improving the campus climate; and serve as an ambassador for the university and its commitment to diversity and inclusion externally in Salem, throughout the North Shore region, and beyond.
The vice president will serve as an ex-officio member of the university’s advisory committee on diversity, equity, and inclusion. The vice president will collaborate closely with the Office of Human Resources and Equal Opportunity, which has responsibility for the university’s compliance efforts in the areas of equal opportunity, affirmative action, harassment and discrimination prevention, and compliance with all applicable state and federal civil rights laws. The vice president will convene a cabinet (coordinating council) of diversity, equity, and inclusion officers from across the campus to facilitate communication, collaboration, and sharing of ideas across divisions of the university; guide the implementation of inclusive excellence strategies and tactics; ensure the development and mobilization of initiatives related to each unit’s inclusive excellence strategic plan; and establish systems of accountability and assessment using data-driven metrics to measure progress toward goals.
Salem State University seeks candidates whose education, perspectives, and experiences have prepared them to serve in a role at the most senior level of the university with responsibility for driving the institutional change needed to create an increasingly diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment. The ideal candidate will be a strategic leader, skilled administrator, collaborative partner, convener, and community builder who has experience advancing inclusive excellence and positive change in complex communities. This person will be adept at fostering dialogue with multiple constituencies, building coalitions, and achieving results through influence, force of intellect, and dynamism of personality. The successful candidate will have an advanced degree; a deep and intersectional understanding of the dynamics of difference, privilege, and power; and the energy, enthusiasm, drive, emotional intelligence, and gravitas necessary to achieve ambitious goals.
Salem State has retained Spelman Johnson to assist with this search. Review of applications will continue until the position is filled; complete applications received by October 4, 2019, will be assured full consideration. A resume with an accompanying cover letter may be submitted via the Spelman Johnson website at http://www.spelmanjohnson.com/open-positions . Confidential inquiries and nominations should be directed to Jim Norfleet at jmn@spelmanjohnson.com. Applicants needing reasonable accommodation to participate in the application process should contact Spelman Johnson at 413-529-2895.
Visit the Salem State University website at www.salemstate.edu
Salem State University is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Persons of color, women, and persons with disabilities are strongly urged to apply.
Sep 05, 2019
Full time
Salem State University invites inquiries, nominations, and applications for the position of vice president for diversity and inclusion, the university’s chief diversity officer.
Located just 15 miles north of Boston in Salem, Massachusetts, and enrolling 8,500 students, Salem State has enjoyed a remarkable trajectory from its origins as a normal school focused exclusively on teacher preparation to a comprehensive public university with an array of undergraduate and graduate programs. The university provides a diverse community of learners a high-quality, student-centered education that prepares them to be leaders within their chosen professions and to contribute responsibly and creatively to a global society. Salem State serves as an important partner in the economic, cultural, and intellectual vitality of the state’s North Shore region.
Recognized as having the most diverse student body of the nine state universities, Salem State is deeply committed to fostering a culture of inclusion and belonging while achieving greater diversity among its faculty, staff, and students. The vice president for diversity and inclusion will build on efforts already underway to catalyze transformational change and further the university’s vision of a vibrant community characterized in all it does by a central commitment to inclusive excellence. The new vice president will find support structures and a community of students, staff, and faculty of diverse backgrounds and identities that are devoted to the urgency of the task. Salem State currently enjoys energetic student groups and active employee resource groups (ERGs) that promote diversity, openness, understanding, and inclusiveness, as well as regional and national affiliations in organizations such as the National Coalition Building Institute and the Leading for Change Higher Education Diversity Consortium.
Reporting to President John D. Keenan, who took office as Salem State’s 14th president in August 2017, the vice president for diversity and inclusion (vice president) will elevate the important work of transforming the university into a learning community where diversity and inclusion are woven throughout the fabric of the institution, where responsibility for inclusiveness extends to everyone on campus, and where the definition of inclusion is rooted in equity and social justice. The vice president will participate fully in the senior leadership of the university and serve on the President’s Executive Council and the President’s Leadership Cabinet; conduct an inventory of existing diversity and inclusion initiatives to identify strengths, gaps, and opportunities; guide the campus community in crafting and implementing a campuswide strategic plan for inclusive excellence; serve as a resource to schools, colleges, and divisions as they develop unit-level inclusive excellence strategic plans; develop and lead the university’s Office of Diversity and Inclusion; expand pathways for assessing, understanding, and improving the campus climate; and serve as an ambassador for the university and its commitment to diversity and inclusion externally in Salem, throughout the North Shore region, and beyond.
The vice president will serve as an ex-officio member of the university’s advisory committee on diversity, equity, and inclusion. The vice president will collaborate closely with the Office of Human Resources and Equal Opportunity, which has responsibility for the university’s compliance efforts in the areas of equal opportunity, affirmative action, harassment and discrimination prevention, and compliance with all applicable state and federal civil rights laws. The vice president will convene a cabinet (coordinating council) of diversity, equity, and inclusion officers from across the campus to facilitate communication, collaboration, and sharing of ideas across divisions of the university; guide the implementation of inclusive excellence strategies and tactics; ensure the development and mobilization of initiatives related to each unit’s inclusive excellence strategic plan; and establish systems of accountability and assessment using data-driven metrics to measure progress toward goals.
Salem State University seeks candidates whose education, perspectives, and experiences have prepared them to serve in a role at the most senior level of the university with responsibility for driving the institutional change needed to create an increasingly diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment. The ideal candidate will be a strategic leader, skilled administrator, collaborative partner, convener, and community builder who has experience advancing inclusive excellence and positive change in complex communities. This person will be adept at fostering dialogue with multiple constituencies, building coalitions, and achieving results through influence, force of intellect, and dynamism of personality. The successful candidate will have an advanced degree; a deep and intersectional understanding of the dynamics of difference, privilege, and power; and the energy, enthusiasm, drive, emotional intelligence, and gravitas necessary to achieve ambitious goals.
Salem State has retained Spelman Johnson to assist with this search. Review of applications will continue until the position is filled; complete applications received by October 4, 2019, will be assured full consideration. A resume with an accompanying cover letter may be submitted via the Spelman Johnson website at http://www.spelmanjohnson.com/open-positions . Confidential inquiries and nominations should be directed to Jim Norfleet at jmn@spelmanjohnson.com. Applicants needing reasonable accommodation to participate in the application process should contact Spelman Johnson at 413-529-2895.
Visit the Salem State University website at www.salemstate.edu
Salem State University is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Persons of color, women, and persons with disabilities are strongly urged to apply.
