DEI Associate Director, Global Work Community

Position Title: DEI Associate Director, Global Work Community

Department: People and Talent

Location: Remote

Americares is currently authorized to support remote work employees in the following locations: Alabama, Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, DC, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky. Louisiana, Massachusetts, Maryland, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and Washington; Puerto Rico, Liberia, Tanzania, Malawi, India, Philippines, Colombia, and El Salvador.

Key Relationships:

Reports to: Senior Director, Global Work Community

Direct Reports: 0

Assignment Type: Full-time

Compensation and Benefits:

Our compensation philosophy is grounded in being competitive, equitable, and transparent.

Competitive: The salary range and benefits for this position are competitive, recognizing that our system is inclusive of various locations. We look forward to sharing the specific range and benefits when we know the remote work location of the person who will be in the role.

Equitable: We avoid negotiation within the ranges to create equity across our team, because we know that salary negotiations lead to poorer outcomes for individuals from non-dominant groups and underrepresented communities.

Transparent: We construct our salaries in such a way that staff can move through the range as they grow within their level. As such, most candidates will start at the midpoint of the range with a few above or below the midpoint based on specific skill sets and experiences.

About Americares:

Americares is a health-focused relief and development organization that saves lives and improves health for people affected by poverty or disaster. Each year, Americares reaches 85 countries on average, including the United States, with life-changing health programs, medicine, medical supplies, and emergency aid. Americares is one of the world’s leading nonprofit providers of donated medicine and medical supplies. For more information, visit americares.org.

PEOPLE AND TALENT AT AMERICARES:

The Americares People and Talent department continuously creates, empowers, and supports the thriving global team that supports our global communities. We act as a catalyst to enable all Americares people to contribute at optimum levels toward the success of our humanitarian and public health program objectives. Our team principles include acting as a community, learning, giving feedback generously, cultivating curiosity, sharing a vision for how we want others to feel, recognizing that we may fail but we don’t fail alone, balancing people and process, and embedding equity.

POSITION SUMMARY:

We are seeking an experienced People and Talent professional who will join our team to lead strategy and execution of global DEI work. This role closely collaborates with our DEI Council, staff in all our locations and departments, and leadership to define, apply, and enhance our universal and local DEI values, objectives, and results.

Duties and Responsibilities:

The position’s responsibilities include:

• Work with the Senior Director of Global Work Community and Chief People Officer to establish a global DEI People vision, strategy, and roadmap
• Collaborate with the HQ DEI Council and other key stakeholders to define and enhance global and local DEI metrics, systems, and work
• Research and develop DEI strategies and best practices
• Project manage the organization-wide DEI Strategy development process
• Define, apply, and enhance our universal and local DEI values, objectives, and results
• Advise and train global people managers and senior executives on key DEI concepts and actions in the workplace
• Work closely with People and Talent colleagues in all locations to create and enhance leadership and coordination of DEI People work, integrated into People Ops, Talent Acquisition, and Global Work Community
• Partner with all departments to evaluate and enhance diversity, equity, and inclusion in their work and teams
• Review and update policies and procedures, job descriptions, performance evaluations, and other organizational processes and documents to enhance diversity, equity, and inclusion goals
• Oversee and implement DEI staff professional development plans and resources
• Keep current about DEI innovations and best practices
• Collaborate with the global People Team to support overall People and Talent goals

QUALIFICATIONS:

• At least 5 years of experience overseeing DEI in global organizations, preferably within humanitarian or sister organizations
• Must have lived in and led DEI in countries outside of the U.S.
• Advanced technology skills for DEI work in a global and remote context
• Proactive and solution-oriented
• Impeccable communication and collaboration skills
• Actively models social justice, anti-colonialism, anti-oppression, and inclusive actions and language
• Passion for our mission and services
• Commitment to work flexible hours (M-F) to meet with staff in all of our organization’s time zones
• Must have unrestricted authorization to work in one of our locations (remote but paid through U.S., El Salvador, India, Philippines, Liberia, Tanzania, Malawi, or Colombia)
• Preferred: Fluent in at least 2 of our Americares staff key languages (English, Spanish, Tagalog, Hindi, Kiswahili, Haitian Creole)

As a global health organization, we are committed to ensuring a safe environment for our staff, partners, and visitors. All Americares staff and visitors who are on-site at any of our locations or will be traveling for work are required to be fully vaccinated (which includes a booster, when eligible) against COVID-19 unless an exemption required by law is applicable.