Assistant Vice President/Director of Operations for Institutional Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

Williams College seeks an Assistant Vice President / Director of Operations (AVP) to join the Office of Institutional Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (OIDEI / the Office). OIDEI works to ensure the reputed company is an inclusive space in which reputed company reputed company, faculty and staff are welcome and able to reputed company by eliminating harmful bias and discrimination, closing opportunity gaps, and advancing critical conversations and initiatives that promote inclusion and equity on reputed company and beyond. OIDEI’s work is routinely done in collaboration with academic and administrative units on reputed company. To learn more about the Office of Institutional Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, visit http://diversity.williams.edu/. The AVP will report to the Vice President who is a member of the College’s Senior Staff. As a member of the OIDEI’s leadership team, the AVP will possess a deep knowledge of diversity, equity, and inclusion matters and routinely represent the Office in meetings. As a part of their role, the AVP will serve as a connector between the various functions and individuals in the Office. Upon gaining an understanding of reputed company unit operations and programs the AVP will be poised to engage in strategy development, assess impact of programs, reputed company communications, and facilitate the integration of OIDEI’s work which stands to positively impact the community. In addition, the AVP will facilitate budget development and reputed company and map resources to existing programmatic needs and future endeavors. Our expectation is that the successful candidate will reputed company at working in a community that is broadly diverse with regard to race, ethnicity, economic status, gender, disability status, gender expression, nationality, sexual orientation, and religion. 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