Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging Manager II

King County’s Department of Local Services (DLS) is seeking a passionate equity, racial, and social justice leader who will guide Local Services in becoming a pro-equity anti-racism organization where employees and the communities we serve experience belonging and can thrive. The successful candidate will collaborate with department leadership, employees, community, and the Office of Equity, Racial, and Social Justice (OERSJ) to develop strategic direction, identify and implement Equity, Racial and Social Justice (ERSJ) initiatives, and ensure progress towards our promise to become a pro-equity anti-racism organization. This position will consult with lines of business leaders and teams on ensuring metrics are culturally appropriate, understandable, meaningful and lead to accountability in achieving desired outcomes. As a key member of our leadership team, the Equity, Inclusion and Belonging Manager will provide consultation, coaching, and support for managers and other employees to be innovative and adaptive in providing culturally responsive, accessible, and equitable programs and/or services. 
 
This is an exciting opportunity to work with the Department of Local Services team and make a difference in our community! 

To be considered for this opportunity, you must at a minimum, demonstrate knowledge, skill, and ability to:
  
Applying equity, racial, and social justice principles is a daily responsibility and a foundational expectation for all King County employees. In this role, you will apply equity, racial, and social justice principles that exemplify shared values, behaviors, and practices to all aspects of the work.

• Serve as Equity, Inclusion & Belonging coach, and advisor on programs, strategies, and policies. 
• Provide psychologically safe consultation, coaching, and support for employees, Human Resources/Employee Labor Relations, and department/division leadership to be innovative and adaptive in providing culturally responsive, accessible, and equitable programs and/or services.
• Co-design and facilitate department/division engagement activities for King County’s ERSJ Strategic Plan Refresh Project.
• Conduct culture labs, workshops, seminars, skills development, relationship building, and learning sessions in various settings in coordination with the DLS Training Coordination.
• Co-facilitate and coordinate DLS Equity, Racial, and Social Justice Action Chant Team (ERSJ ACT) and special workgroups. 
• Co-Design and share data strategy and reporting methods on the effectiveness of organization ERSJ activities and their impact on both workplace culture and division business results.
• Serve as a liaison between DLS, Office of Equity, Racial and Social Justice and other departments, lead ERSJ work in the department, represent agency in the EIB Community of Practice and DLS on the County’s ERSJ inter-branch team.
• Co-create and coordinate DLS ERSJ Strategic Plan implementation work, accountability metrics, and organizational pro-equity anti-racism maturation actions.
• Inform equity data strategies and apply analysis in developing content that supports the implementation and maturation of ERSJ in services and programs.
• Develop and manage EIB Program budget.

We are looking for candidates who:

• Demonstrated ability to be an equitable change management practitioner.
• Knowledgeable of and experienced in practicing positive intelligence. 
• Ability to be an adaptive people leader and coach.
• Experience in providing strategic guidance, planning and operational assistance internally and externally to develop and advance pro-equity anti-racism programs, services, policies, projects, and initiatives.  
• Demonstrated ability to engage, build, and sustain relationships with diverse people and cultures.
• Experience in co-designing, tracking, maintaining and presenting equity, racial, and social justice, metrics and reporting information.
• Ability to assess the department and division ERSJ practices and apply tailored department wide ERSJ implementation and maturation strategies to accelerate progress and enable cultural and organizational effectiveness in pro-equity anti-racism change.
• Experience in evaluating and supporting line of business leaders in the effectiveness of department ERSJ activities and their impact on both culture and business results.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate new/updated ERSJ programs, services, policies, and processes to department leadership, employees, and community. 
• Ability to work with management to deliver culture labs/education/skills development workshops around ERSJ and related subject matter.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate with human resources and other applicable teams to build internal and external partnerships that help attract and amplify under-represented and diverse perspectives.
• Demonstrated skills in presenting to a diverse audience with potentially conflicting priorities in a variety of formats.
• Have the ability to organize, prioritize, plan, schedule and follow up on tasks; elevate issues or obtain additional resources when necessary. 
• Demonstrated proficiency with business applications, such as Microsoft Office suite.

Necessary Special Requirements:

• Must have a valid Washington State driver's license, or the ability to obtain one before hire.
• Must be able to operate a motor vehicle safely throughout the County.