Description

Join us!
This is an exciting opportunity to join our team as a Pro-Equity Consultant. This new role was developed to build, deepen, and expand the Office of Equity’s organizational capacity to lead the state’s workplace pro-equity, racial justice, access, and belonging consulting practice. In this role, you will help state government agencies set and achieve their equity goals and drive business results by leveraging proprietary tools to adopt, execute, and institutionalize the leading standards for pro-equity, anti-racist service delivery, talent acquisition, contracting and procurement, public policy, programs, and engagement.

You will also help to build collaborative, complementary, relationships with statewide partners in equity, social justice, and belonging to facilitate systems and policy change statewide.

Please note: This recruitment will be used to fill two positions. One position will focus on providing technical assistance to the Washington State Patrol (WSP) to help them strengthen diversity, equity, and inclusion in their workforce. One position will focus on other statewide partners in equity, social justice, and belonging.

Follow this link for Office of Equity application tips: Pro-Equity Consultant Informational Video

Who we are:
The Washington State Office of Equity (“the Office”) was established to promote equitable access to opportunities, power, and resources across state government that reduce disparities and improve outcomes statewide. The Office of Equity co-created the state’s Pro-Equity Anti-Racism (PEAR) Ecosystem Plan & Playbook with thousands of state employees and community members to support the Governor’s commitment to be an anti-racist government system and helps government agencies to apply an equity lens in all aspects of decision making, including service delivery, programming, policy development, budgeting, and staffing. The vision of the Office is a state where everyone has full access to opportunities, power, and resources they need to flourish and achieve their full potential.
Our Vision
Everyone in Washington State has full access to the opportunities, power, and resources they need to flourish and achieve their full potential.

Our Mission
To promote equitable access to opportunities, power, and resources across state government that reduce disparities and improve outcomes statewide.

We Value

• Access: Barrier-free environments so everyone can participate.
• Belonging: The right to participate in all aspects of society with acceptance, attention, and support from members of the society, providing the same to others.
• Dignity: We honor the sacred nature of each individual’s personhood.
• Equity: Acknowledging systemic inequalities by developing, strengthening, and supporting policies and procedures that distribute and prioritize resources to people in social identity groups who have historically been and currently are marginalized to ensure everyone has access to the same opportunities, power, resources, and outcomes to achieve equality.
• Justice: Treating people fairly. To make right. What love looks like in public (Cornel West).
• Love: A selfless and giving act of the will. We seek to out-give and out-serve the other.
• Ubuntu: I am because we are. We are interconnected.

Learn more about Office of Equity.

Duties

Join the movement by…

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  Provide leadership consulting and best practices to help state agencies to create a unified vision, plan and goals for working in a way that bridges opportunity gaps and reduces disparities to achieve equitable and just outcomes.
• Assist to develop, implement, and continuously improve a framework to use when facilitating policy and systems change to achieve equitable agency policies and practices.
• Collaborate on the design, development or delivery of a consultative solution that will assist a state agencies’ ability to increase racially equitable employment, contracting and procurement, and service delivery investments, and create a culture of racial justice and belonging.
• Subject matter expert and thought leader on racial equity in service delivery, economic development, and workforce development.
• Establish, nurture, bridge and maintain relationships with multi-sector partners who share The Office of Equity’s vision for the future across the region, state, and the country.
• Provide executive and leadership coaching and technical assistance that empowers, champions, challenges, and inspires state agency partners to make policy and system changes to achieve equitable and just policies, practices, and outcomes with accountability.
• Develop and submit substantive internal and external reports, including financial, operating, and program reporting.

(These additional duties are associated with the WSP position):

• Lead oversight of the development and ongoing implementation of the Washington State Patrol’s (WSP) diversity, equity, and inclusion strategic recruitment and retention plan as required under Substitute House Bill 2057 (2022) in accordance with RCW 43.06D.040.
• Design, develop, and establish the accountability monitoring and reporting systems and processes and procedures required to monitor and report WSP’s progress.
• Assist with annual report to the Governor and appropriate committees of the Legislature on WSP’s compliance with developing its diversity, equity, and inclusion strategic recruitment and retention plan.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

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  Bachelor’s degree in a related field or paid professional work embedding racial equity or social justice in a public or private sector environment may substitute (year for year) for the education requirement.
• Demonstrable knowledge of and familiarity with the history of racism in the United States and its consequences, including employment, income, and wealth disparities, housing and education segregation and disparities, and contemporary debates about racial equity and solutions.
• Three years of experience in strategically leading equity and social justice within complex organizations at the organizational level.
• Demonstrable knowledge and experience working to achieve workforce equity.
• Demonstrated organizational and project management skills with the ability to manage several projects successfully while also managing day-to-day priorities.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills (with or without the use of auxiliary aids or services or assistive technologies); keen attention to detail, commitment to deliver work product that is accurate and error-free.
• Experience advancing systems change and dismantling systems of oppression.
• Demonstrated experience working and facilitating collaboration across all sectors of economy, including experience with government, business, non-profits, and foundations.

(This additional requirement is associated with the WSP position):

• Understanding of the history of law enforcement in the United States, employment discrimination, and inequities in recruitment and retention.

Desired Qualifications:

• Certified Diversity Executive (or equivalent).
• Proficiency in a language other than English.
• A demonstrated commitment to social and racial justice issues and fundamental understanding of the historical context underlying current challenges facing communities of color, people with disabilities, immigrant communities, queer and transgender communities, as well as low-and moderate-income families.
• Ability to exercise a high level of emotional intelligence, critical thinking, self-care, and judgment during challenging or ambiguous situations.

Condition of Employment:
Gov. Jay Inslee’s Directive 22-13.1 states employees must be fully vaccinated effective Nov. 4, 2022. Providing proof of being fully vaccinated is a condition of employment and we will need to verify your vaccine status before you start work. Being fully vaccinated means two weeks after you have received the second dose in a two-dose series of a COVID-19 vaccine, or a single-dose COVID-19 vaccine authorized for emergency use, licensed or otherwise authorized or approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration or listed for emergency use or otherwise approved by the World Health Organization. Please reach out to the HR Office if you need information on medical or religious accommodation.

If you have an approved exemption with your current agency, you will still be expected to go through the exemption process with OFM by submitting your request through the OFM HR office for appropriate processing and approval.

Supplemental Information

Application Process
How to Apply
Interested? We would love to hear from you. Click “Apply” at the top of this page to start your application (you can save the application and come back to it, if needed).

To be considered for this position, please include the following along with your application:

• Letter of interest: describing your specific qualifications.
• Resume: that details your applicable experience and education.
• References: at least three professional references with current telephone numbers.

We will directly contact the top candidates to interview for this position. Because we base our selection on the information you provide, it is in your best interest to identify the knowledge, skills and abilities that address the required and desirable qualifications we described above.

Questions:
For questions about this recruitment or to request reasonable accommodation in the application process, please email William at TalentAcquisition@ofm.wa.gov. For TTY service, please call the Washington Relay Service at 7-1-1 or 1-800-833-6388.

The Office of the Governor is an equal opportunity employers. We strive to create a working environment that includes and respects cultural, racial, ethnic, sexual orientation and gender identity diversity. Women, racial and ethnic minorities, persons of disability, persons over 40 years of age, and disabled and Vietnam-era veterans are encouraged to apply.