Job Details
The Director, DEIB is the regional D&I subject matter expert (SME) who collaborates with the regional leaders, operation leaders, human resources, and the Enterprise Office of DEIB to ensure alignment with DEIB Strategy and the initiatives across Jefferson.
The Director, DEIB will guide the Regional DEIB game plans that align with the Enterprise DEIB Strategy. They will be the guides to the Culture Councils and a member of other key stakeholder’s councils/committees within the enterprise/regional enterprise units they support.
The Director, DEIB is responsible for analyzing data, reporting opportunities and priorities and providing the tools for education/development, observances, ERG connections, community experiences and socializing and reporting out. They will be responsible to support the creation of a diverse workforce and create the culture where all employees, patients and students feel they are being heard and feel a sense of belonging.
The Director, DEIB serves as a partner and consultant to HR Business Partner (HRBP) along with Compliance and/or Legal with any issues requiring attention connecting to bias or discrimination.
• Interacts with co-workers, visitors, and other staff consistent with the values of Jefferson.
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• Strategy and Operations:
o Collaborates with leadership, faculty, staff, patients, and students to develop programs that strengthen the culture of inclusion, belonging, and engagement by active participation and SME guidance to Jefferson employee resource groups and DEIB/Culture Councils.
o Engages with various stakeholders within their enterprise/regional enterprise unit to understand their needs and areas of focus to ensure alignment operations and support.
o Collaborate with Community Impact and Procurement to enhance supplier diversity strategy to ensure intentional and meaningful economic inclusion strategy for Jefferson to invest in marginalized businesses within the communities served.
o Collaborates with the enterprise/enterprise unit leadership team to foster a sustainable culturally welcoming and socially accountable environment where everyone feels seen, heard, respected, engaged and has a sense of belonging.
• Professional Development and Training:
o Designs, facilitates and schedules DEIB training and professional development opportunities for leadership, faculty, staff, patients, and students as needed in collaboration with key stakeholders.
o Works closely with operation leadership, human resources – learning and organization development, and the Enterprise Office of DEIB to promote culturally competent training, supporting a climate of equity, inclusion, and belonging.
• Helps Drive the development of the Local councils and their programs
• Support and Influence Leaders as Advocates and Sponsors of DEIB
• Leadership and Analytics:
o Serves as a central source and point of coordination for diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging initiatives.
o Strong skills to report out opportunities and priorities based on data analytics, presentation skills and articulation thru story telling.
Job Description
Competencies (Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities Required):
- Proven experience in relationship management
- Proven experience in project management or process efficiency preferred
- Experience in gathering, analyzing, and reporting statistical data.
- Strong experience with multiple project management, excel and data analytics
- Skill in verbal and written communication skills (PowerPoint, presentation skills)
- Ability to plan, operationalize, deploy and monitor programs.
- Ability to influence at various levels; especially Sr Leadership
- Ability to perform as a partner and collaborator in a team environment and coordinate a wide range of internal and external programmatic activities.
- Must be consistent and reliable.
- Must be able to mediate and demonstrate understanding of differing opinions.
- Values Teamwork
- Must be able to show compassion for serving and valuing others
- Must exemplify inclusive behaviors and coach others to do the same.
- DEIB and or ERG experience pref
Bachelors degree required; Masters degree preferred
Work Shift
Workday Day (United States of America)
Worker Sub Type
Regular
Primary Location Address
1101 Market, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Nationally ranked, Jefferson, which is principally located in the greater Philadelphia region, Lehigh Valley and Northeastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey, is reimagining health care and higher education to create unparalleled value. Jefferson is more than 65,000 people strong, dedicated to providing the highest-quality, compassionate clinical care for patients; making our communities healthier and stronger; preparing tomorrow's professional leaders for 21st-century careers; and creating new knowledge through basic/programmatic, clinical and applied research. Thomas Jefferson University, home of Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Jefferson College of Nursing, and the Kanbar College of Design, Engineering and Commerce, dates back to 1824 and today comprises 10 colleges and three schools offering 200+ undergraduate and graduate programs to more than 8,300 students. Jefferson Health, nationally ranked as one of the top 15 not-for-profit health care systems in the country and the largest provider in the Philadelphia and Lehigh Valley areas, serves patients through millions of encounters each year at 32 hospitals campuses and more than 700 outpatient and urgent care locations throughout the region. Jefferson Health Plans is a not-for-profit managed health care organization providing a broad range of health coverage options in Pennsylvania and New Jersey for more than 35 years.
Jefferson is committed to providing equal educational and employment opportunities for all persons without regard to age, race, color, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, military status, veteran status, handicap or disability or any other protected group or status.