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The Equity Lab is hiring for the role of Engagements Associate! Learn more and apply to join our team.
About the Role
The Engagements Associate is a key member of The Equity Lab’s entirely remote team responsible for ensuring our Long-Term Engagements have current, relevant, and accurate information and resources to support our Race, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (REDI) work. The Engagements Associate will provide administrative, program research, facilitation and coaching support where appropriate. The ideal candidate will be a highly motivated, organized, self-managed, and meticulous individual adept at research and communicating in a concise, warm, and direct way across audiences. In addition, the nature of The Equity Lab’s work requires all members of the team to balance optimism with persistence and drive with passion.
Research
Review print and online resources to gather information relevant to client engagements
Prepare graphs and spreadsheets to portray results
Create presentation slides and posters to help LTE team present findings to clients
Participate in various client meetings and phone calls to prepare customized resource guides and reference materials.
Write and edit materials for publication and presentation.
Assist staff in design and maintenance of online surveys and relational databases; this frequently involves use of the TypeForm platform
Facilitation Support
Evaluate and book vendors for fellowship programming, alumni events, and client engagements
Prepare materials and spaces for gatherings in-person and virtually
Utilize appropriate online portals and email to communicate with program clients regarding programming details
Provide on-site and/or virtual responsive support during programming, requiring occasional evening and/or weekend support (which may include holding space for breakout conversations)
Support in summarizing and drawing out themes from client engagements
Coaching Support
Manage consultant coaching partner intake surveys and session completion tracking
Engage with prospective and current coaches around engagements and fellowship needs and progress
Maintain database of coaching partners
External Communications
Serve as an ambassador for The Equity Lab, creating an excellent first impression of the organization as the first point of contact for a wide variety of high-level relationships
Evaluate incoming inquiries and share with appropriate staff for follow-up
Position Requirements
Minimum two to three (2-3) years of relevant work experience
Demonstrated alignment with The Equity Lab’s mission, values, and commitment to diversity, racial equity, and inclusion, including understanding of the historical and cultural systems of inequity and oppression in which we all operate
Deep personal awareness of own identity markers and how they impact how you show up in equity work
Self-directed and able to work independently as part of a fully remote team; resourceful, strategic problem-solving ability with a positive attitude, emotionally constant, and ‘can-do’ approach
Ability to demonstrate responsibility, integrity, accountability, and excellence in relationships with colleagues, clients, coaches and consultants, and Fellowship cohorts and alumni
Strong verbal and written communication including experience creating written content for internal audiences, external stakeholders, nonprofit board members, or donors
Extremely well organized, detail oriented and proactive
Ambitious dreamer with an optimistic hope in people and possibilities mixed with willingness create solutions
Flexible and adaptable; excited to learn, grow, and improve self and systems
Demonstrated skill in planning, prioritization, and executing and juggling multiple tasks
Comfort with technology and experience leveraging a variety of applications to manage tasks, people and communication. Experience with process design is a plus
Ability to travel domestically approximately 25% of time
Compensation & Benefits
Built into this role is a unique opportunity to create, explore and grow within a dynamic and nimble organization that is invested in its team. TEL embodies a vision that pushes against common workplace environments, with a leadership team that is representative of the communities most affected by inequity. Partnership, collaboration and power sharing are operationalized at all levels across the organization. There is also significant room for creativity and innovation as well as deep support of self and community care.
Salary commensurate with experience, in the range of $60k to $80k
4% employer 401K match
100% employer funded comprehensive medical and dental coverage, vision
Flexible work schedule
Employer investment in personal growth and development
Organizational focus on wellness and belief in the power of rest and play as a balance to and in alignment with our work in the world. We offer all staff six weeks of paid organization-wide respite per year, flexible paid time off, and light Fridays (ending our work midday).
About The Equity Lab
The Equity Lab is dedicated to bringing together leaders for equity – people skilled in interrupting systems of inequity and redesigning a future that engages multi-generational solutions to our most vexing problems. Through our programming and thought leadership, we are creating a strong and evolving network of individuals and organizations ready to move past our base fears to the opportunities that abound when we break free of limiting mindsets.
The Equity Lab’s small (but mighty!) team operates remotely from home offices across the country and has grown in the past few years to ten full-time staff and a host of talented expert coaches and consultants from around the country. Our three core offerings are designed to help individuals and organizations to engage deeply in race, equity, diversity, and inclusion (REDI) work.
The Nexus Fellowship is a national fellowship that helps leaders to create long-term organizational change around race and equity.
Seeding Disruption is a Washington, DC-based fellowship that helps educators and youth-facing professionals use equity-driven design thinking to solve specific problems in their work.
Long-term engagements are designed to meet the needs of organizations that are ready and committed to becoming anti-racist leaders for equity but are unsure of how to get there.