Director, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Access, and Advocacy

Company Overview

Girl Scouts of Greater Los Angeles (“GSGLA”) is the largest girl-serving nonprofit agency in the Los Angeles region. Our mission is to build girls of courage, confidence, and character, who make the world a better place. www.girlscoutsla.org.

Our core values of Integrity, Clarity of Purpose, Accountability and Respect represent how we behave on a day-to-day basis. These values dictate the specific behaviors that are imperative and encouraged in our company culture. 

We are committed to building a diverse staff that reflects the communities we work alongside, and we value diversity, equity, and inclusion in our workplace.

We encourage all qualified individuals to apply, and strongly encourage people from underrepresented groups to apply. In addition, reach out to us if you are a candidate whose disability prevents you from being able to complete our online application.

Position Summary

The Director of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Access & Advocacy (DEIA & A) is a full-time employee of Girl Scouts of Greater Los Angeles (GSGLA) and reports to the Chief Mission Delivery Officer, is a collaborative partner with the Membership and Girl & Volunteer Experience (program) teams, and the People & Culture team.

This role oversees the strategy to operationalize diversity, equity, inclusion throughout the organization—for Girl Scouts, volunteers, staff, and board members. This position also helps to create partnerships with Council business leaders and civic leaders and agencies, advocating on behalf of the girl experience.

The DEIA & A Director is also responsible for program strategy; data collection and analysis; program development and implementation; the stewardship, growth, and strengthened community relationships; and helps develop public policy and programs that support the mission of the organization. This role forms and drives strategies across all functions and embeds diversity, equity and inclusion as a business and culture imperative. The role has primary leadership for the causes of girl empowerment, gender equity, and social justice and stewarding a culture of belonging in the organization.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

·       Create, lead, integrate and execute the DEIA beliefs and values to advance the mission and goals of GSGLA.

·       Drive review of current structures, practices, toolkits, and policies, assessing and analyzing the extent to which they support or hinder GSGLA’s DEIA goals.

·       Establish Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and benchmark milestones to measure effectiveness of the DEIA strategy and its outputs.

·       Integrate key concepts of equity, allyship, inclusion, and diversity into existing programs and support the development of new, innovative programs that incorporate these values.

·       Serve as a strong voice and representative for inclusion and diversity across multiple stakeholders, constituents, and partners.

·       Design and facilitate DEIA trainings for board, staff, and members and steward the development of cultural competency and responsiveness enterprise wide.

·       Support change management for processes (ex. volunteer training) and cultural norms (ex. language and communication).

·       Ensure that DEIA issues are accounted for in budgeting, strategic planning, and other forward-thinking initiatives.

·       Co-create inclusion and equity-focused internal processes, tools, and resources with the People & Culture team.

·       Partner with Fund Development to identify grant proposals for DEIA funding strategies.

·       Partner with Marketing & Communications to communicate DEIA initiatives and messaging.

·       Lead community and civic engagement efforts of the council and champion and scale Girl Scout initiatives—program focused internally as well as social impact focused externally.

·       Cultivate long-term, collaborative, influential, collegial, and strategic relationships with key stakeholder organizations, commissions, and individuals, including government and elected officials, community leaders, school district administrators, and aligned organizations and agencies; connect council leadership.

·       Speak in favor of, recommend, advocate for programs, funding, and proper legislations (within IRS non-lobbying guidelines) for causes and issues especially important to girl members and promotes the organization.

·       Create opportunities to partner with organizations from the business, non-profit, and public sectors to maximize broad-based support for the Council’s operations.

·       Interpret and promote Girl Scouting in the greater Los Angeles community, to enhance the understanding and appreciation of its programs.

·       Serve as a GSUSA thought partner.

·       Other duties as assigned.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

·       Ability to fulfill timely and extensive travel requirements across a large geographical area

·       High Accountability and knows how to manage multiple priorities

·       Creative problem-solving and consensus-building who can deftly manage competing expectations and creatively uses resources to deliver

·       Flexibility to attend evening and/or weekend meetings and/or events

·       Able to perform this job safely, without endangering the health or safety of themself or others

The preceding functions have been provided as examples of the types of work performed by employees assigned to this job classification. Management reserves the right to add, modify, change, or rescind work assignments.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed above are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Recommended Education, Training and Experience

·       Experience in advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion in a complex organization

·       Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including communicating complex information with clarity to diverse audiences

·       Experience in facilitation, advocacy, and/or community engagement

·       Experience working within a federated environment and demonstrated examples of successfully leading enterprise-wide business initiatives

·       Commitment to social justice and the values of diversity, equity, and inclusion

·       Experience in synthesizing input from stakeholders, regional organizations, and industry experts and possess the ability to influence leaders from a variety of subject areas and seniority levels

·       Bachelor’s degree in communications, social sciences, people management, DEI, nonprofit management, education, or similar preferred, Master’s a plus

·       Experience utilizing Microsoft Office Suite, Sharepoint

·       Non-profit experience; experience in a Girl Scouts organization is a plus

GSGLA Employee Requirements

·       Comply with state-mandated reporter training

·       Attend GSGLA signature events and/or other activities as assigned

Benefits / Other

Employees of GSGLA receive a competitive benefits package and paid time off, including the closure of its offices the second and fourth Monday of every month. Full time staff are eligible to opt into plans that cover medical, dental, vision, life and even pet insurance, an employee assistance program, as well as a 403(b) retirement plan.

Vaccination Policy

Girl Scouts of Greater Los Angeles requires its employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19, subject to certain exemptions as required by law. New hires working at Girl Scouts of Greater Los Angeles must be fully vaccinated upon hire. Please contact the People & Culture Department for a copy of the vaccination policy.