Job Description

The Team

Across our work in Science, Education, and within our communities, we pair technology with grantmaking, impact investing, and collaboration to help accelerate the pace of progress toward our mission. Our Central team provides the support needed to push this work forward.

The Central team at CZI consists of our Finance, People & DEI, Real Estate, Events, Workplace, Facilities, Security, Brand & Communications, Business Systems, Central Operations, Strategic Initiatives, and Ventures teams. These teams provide strategic support and operational excellence across the board at CZI.

The Opportunity

As the Operations Manager of DEIA, you will be instrumental in identifying and operationalizing areas for improvement throughout the diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility team’s programmatic efforts at CZI. This role focuses on implementing project plans to enhance our systems processes and infrastructure to scale DEIA efforts organization-wide.

In this position, you will manage and enable coordinated efforts across various stakeholders to implement DEIA projects and programs and utilize data, experience, and best practices to deliver creative solutions to track, analyze, and report progress in pursuit of operational excellence toward CZI’s DEIA objectives.

What You’ll Do

Project Management & Planning

• Develop and manage project plans for DEIA initiatives, including timelines, toolkits, templates, databases, budgets, and resource allocation
• Track progress, identify potential roadblocks, and implement corrective actions to ensure projects are completed on time and within scope
• Plan and implement DEIA projects and programs, including defining project scope, goals, and deliverables; creating schedule and project timelines; tracking deliverables; monitoring and reporting on project progress; and evaluating and assessing results
• Organize external strategic partnerships to support DEIA goals and development
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement DEIA programs and initiative

Operational Oversight 

• Manage daily operations related to the work across the DEIA team to ensure that workflow is aligned with overarching goals and priorities
• Facilitate the budgeting process, vendor onboarding, vendor renewals, and vendor management Point of Contact (POC)
• Data management activities will include compiling, analyzing, and maintaining internal and external DEIA-related data and metrics, as well as owning DEI dashboards to assess the efficiency and effectiveness of DEIA initiatives and strategies
• Prepare and present data and evidence-based practices to inform the development of DEIA-related interventions and training efforts in partnership with Learning, Employee Experience & Development team
• Proactively identify process improvements and eliminate operational inefficiencies and gaps within the team, ensuring enhanced productivity across the team

Communications

• Foster collaborations with key internal partners and develop/design outreach communications that help elevate the impact of DEIA at CZI
• Engaging verbal, written, and presentation communication skills, including leading and facilitating meetings with ​care and inclusion at the forefront of every interaction

What You’ll Bring

• Proven success in managing complex projects, programs, and operations, including experience with project management tools and methodologies
• Ability to lead cross-functional collaboration and manage multiple stakeholders to deliver on DEIA initiatives within a dynamic organization
• Experience tracking and measuring DEIA goals and using data-driven insights to adjust and improve initiatives
• Deep understanding of DEIA concepts and their application within operational frameworks.
• Extensive experience in interpreting data to design visually appealing slide decks, presentations, and documents and creating dynamic project plans

How to Apply

Job Types: Full-Time. Salaries: 100,000 and above.

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