Chief Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Officer #24-239
Location
Manhattan - Legal Aid Society Headquarters
Deadline is 3:00 PM EST for Date Listed
2024-11-27
Job Description
The Legal Aid Society, the nation’s largest and oldest public defense and civil legal services provider is dedicated to a simple yet powerful mission: ensuring that no individual is denied the right to equal justice. For 148 years, we have protected, defended, and advocated for those who have struggled in silence for far too long – working on the front lines and behind the scenes to offer the people we serve the exceptional legal services they deserve. Through our Civil, Criminal Defense, and Juvenile Rights Practices, we offer an unmatched depth and breadth of legal expertise to vulnerable New Yorkers every year in over 200,000 individual legal matters while also impacting millions with effective advocacy, impact litigation and legislative agenda. We are dedicated to blunting the impact of poverty on individuals, families, and communities.
The Position
The nearly 2,300 members of our staff who provide direct representation and advocacy and the administrative infrastructure for our organization are key to our success and ability to meet our mission. To ensure that we continuously center equity, intentionally foster diversity, and provide an inclusive and affirming workplace for our staff and, by extension, volunteers and clients, we are seeking a Chief Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Officer.
Directly reporting to the Attorney-in-Chief and CEO, the Chief Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Officer is responsible for providing vision and leadership to The Legal Aid Society’s efforts to ensure diversity, inclusion, and equity (DEI) in all our work. The Chief Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Officer will be a key leader and adviser, ensuring The Legal Aid Society’s diversity, equity, and inclusion strategy is deeply integrated into The Legal Aid Society’s strategic planning, culture, and processes.
The Chief Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Officer will bring deep expertise around DEI practices, principles, and experience leading large-scale culture and systemic change. The candidate will be an exceptional strategist, communicator, and facilitator who can create a vision, a road map for achieving that vision, and garner the collective buy-in and accountability required to achieve organizational change. The Chief Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Officer will work in close partnership with The Legal Aid Society’s Attorney-in-Chief and CEO and colleagues on the executive leadership team, as well as staff members across the entire organization, to support the development and implementation of a framework and vision for The Legal Aid Society’s equity and inclusion work.
Internal Community Engagement
Strategy & Leadership
Accountability, Metrics & Execution
Supervision & Management
The Ideal Candidate
The ideal candidate for the CDEIO position possesses the following competencies:
Additional Qualifications
SALARY AND BENEFITS
The posting reflects the range of potential salaries for the role. The specific salary offers will be dependent on candidate qualifications, including collectively bargained salary steps for unionized roles.
Salary Range: $180,000-$205,000
The leadership of The Legal Aid Society believes in attracting and retaining exceptional talent committed to serving our clients. We offer a generous benefits package, including health insurance, paid vacation, disability, and life insurance, and more. Salaries for our unionized jobs are governed by our Collective Bargaining Agreement. Please visit our Careers page for additional information. Salary and benefits information will be available to applicants, when and if, an offer is made.
HOW TO APPLY
All applications must be completed online. We do not accept paper submissions. Please visit our Careers Page to review all current job postings, and instructions on the application process. For technical difficulties or questions regarding this posting, please email jobpostquestions@legal-aid.org.
Please submit these documents as a single combined PDF when you apply via the LAS (Legal Aid Society) Recruitment Portal.
OUR COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION
The leadership of The Legal Aid Society is committed to a work culture of zealous advocacy, respect, diversity and inclusion, client-oriented defense, access to justice and excellent representation. We are dedicated to building a strong professional relationship with each of our clients, to understanding their diverse circumstances, and to meeting their needs. Our ability to achieve these goals depends on the efforts of all of us.
As an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Employer, The Legal Aid Society prohibits discriminatory employment actions against and treatment of its employees and applicants for employment based on actual or perceived race or color, size (including bone structure, body size, height, shape, and weight), religion or creed, alienage or citizenship status, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity (one’s internal deeply-held sense of one’s gender which may be the same or different from one’s sex assigned at birth); gender expression (the representation of gender as expressed through, for example, one’s name, choice of pronouns, clothing, haircut, behavior, voice, or body characteristics; gender expression may not conform to traditional gender-based stereotypes assigned to specific gender identities), disability, marital status, relationship and family structure (including domestic partnerships, polyamorous families and individuals, chosen family, platonic co-parents, and multigenerational families), genetic information or predisposing genetic characteristics, military status, domestic violence victim status, arrest or pre-employment conviction record, credit history, unemployment status, caregiver status, salary history, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Chief Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Officer #24-239
Location
Manhattan - Legal Aid Society Headquarters
Deadline is 3:00 PM EST for Date Listed
2024-11-27
Job Description
The Legal Aid Society, the nation’s largest and oldest public defense and civil legal services provider is dedicated to a simple yet powerful mission: ensuring that no individual is denied the right to equal justice. For 148 years, we have protected, defended, and advocated for those who have struggled in silence for far too long – working on the front lines and behind the scenes to offer the people we serve the exceptional legal services they deserve. Through our Civil, Criminal Defense, and Juvenile Rights Practices, we offer an unmatched depth and breadth of legal expertise to vulnerable New Yorkers every year in over 200,000 individual legal matters while also impacting millions with effective advocacy, impact litigation and legislative agenda. We are dedicated to blunting the…