Talent, Equity & Belonging Manager
Join a national organization committed to advancing a movement to race equity and health justice.
Community Catalyst is a leading non-profit national health advocacy organization dedicated to advancing a movement for health equity and justice. We partner with local, state and national advocates to leverage and build power so all people can influence decisions that affect their health. Health systems will not be accountable to people without a fully engaged and organized community voice. That’s why we work every day to ensure people’s interests are represented wherever important decisions about health and health care are made: in communities, state houses and on Capitol Hill. Learn more about our vision for the future in our five-year strategic plan.
Position Summary
Community Catalyst is seeking a team-oriented, motivated Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging/Human Resources/Operations professional to assist in managing a newly forming internal. The Talent, Equity & Belonging (TEB) Manager will support the Senior Director of TEB in operationalizing and integrating strategies to support the implementation of the organization’s TEB strategies to attract, hire, engage, develop and retain employees in an inclusive workplace.
The Manager will play a key supportive role in bridging our work to center race equity internally at CC across programs and levels. The TEB Manager will support communication between TEB and programs internally. The Manager will lead administrative coordination for the Equity & Belonging side of the team, and will serve as a point of contact in support of aligning our work with internal and external efforts/events/activities related to TEB.
This position is classified as confidential status.
Supervision
- This role reports to the Sr. Director of Talent, Equity & Belonging
- The TEB Manager may supervise up to 2 employees
Responsibilities
- Researches, develops, recommends, and executes creative strategies to foster the organization’s TEB strategy.
- Thought partner to Sr. Director of TEB to disrupt inequity and reimagine Human Resources.
- Reviews current practices and policies, assessing and analyzing the extent to which they support or hinder the company’s internal equity and belonging goals.
- Collects and analyzes statistical data to evaluate the organization’s population in accordance with TEB standards and goals.
- Handles confidential employee information with the understanding of the magnitude of confidentiality and have relevant skills to handle sensitive data (including medical, legal, ADA, FMLA and payroll etc)
- Assists in development and/or acquires training and development to aid TEB initiatives.
- Provides oversight and organization of the Employee Resource Groups.
- Acts as company liaison with Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging vendors/third parties.
- Maintains knowledge of diversity-related issues, legislation, and best practices.
- Provides facilitation of meetings, affinity groups and presents to all levels in the organization.
- Organizes, tracks and drafts TEB communications.
- Develop project scopes and objectives and involve all relevant stakeholders
- Develop detailed project plans to track progress
- Manage the relationship with connected MOCHA project teams and all stakeholders to move the work forward
- Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation
- Performs other related duties as assigned.
Qualifications
Required
- Effective and transparent verbal and written communication skills
- Excellent cross-cultural communication skills
- Proven organizational skills and attention to detail
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Strong relationship building and management skills
- Creative thinker and agile with continual change
- High Emotional Intelligence
- Grounded in centering anti-racism and continual self-reflection
- Inclusive leadership skills
- Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite
Education and Experience
- Education or full-time professional experience (excludes internship experience) commensurate to 5 years of work experience in HR, DEIB, Operations or another related field.
- Demonstrated high-level experience advocating for race equity, health equity and implementing change within a multicultural, multi-racial environment, as well as training, DEIB initiatives, organizational development and project management experience.
- Experience working with and in identifying consultants, identifying training and organizing events to build capacity for race equity and intersectional work among staff.
- Experience in community and staff engagement efforts, organizing and facilitating Town Halls and/or other mechanisms to obtain feedback from staff needed to further our race equity and health justice work.
- Experience creating and maintaining databases for HR, Operations or DEIB.
- Significant experience in cross-organizational communication strategies that help minimize silos and assist with information sharing.
- Significant experience working closely with various levels of leadership on diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts.
- Significant experience in contributing to and implementing strategic plans across internal and external operations.
- Passionate about race equity and health justice.
Salary & Benefits
- Salary Range: $70,000 – $75,000
- Generous paid time off policy
- Robust benefits package
- If Boston based, primarily remote with some time in office on as needed basis. If outside of Boston, possibility of fully remote with some travel to Boston office and other locations when needed.
Applicants should submit a resume as a document with a one page cover letter briefly summarizing their interest in and qualifications for the position to: jobs@communitycatalyst.org. Please put “TEB Manager” in the subject line.