Working/Functional Title

Equity and Compliance Coordinator

Position Summary

Under the supervision of the Director of Equity and Compliance, this position supports a critically important and growing campus team in efforts to ensure equity, promote inclusive excellence, and advance the common good with uncommon will.  This position will be instrumental in the success of IDI outreach, engagement, and community serving efforts. 

To make MSU a national leader in diversity, equity and inclusion, we are investing in top talent and holding ourselves accountable for prioritizing this essential work, adopting initiatives to make progress and achieving meaningful and measurable results.  If you’re seeking a rewarding, community-oriented position contributing to efforts advancing diversity, ensuring equity, and promoting inclusion, opportunity awaits at Michigan State University. 

Characteristic Duties – Responsibilities

• Assist in the planning, development, and administration of institutional programs, outreach and engagement efforts designed to promote diversity, ensure equity, and advance inclusive excellence.
• Assist in the communication and advancement of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion priorities, programs, and efforts to support the Spartan community.
• Assist in efforts to advance equity, ensure compliance with civil rights policies and laws, and audit institutional practice.
• Assist in equal employment opportunity administrative efforts, production of University affirmative action plans, auditing of personnel practices, review of search processes, and construction of related reports.
• Create accessible, strategic communications, reports and compliance plans, including responsibilities for construction, distribution, and management of office newsletters, websites, and other communications, as directed by leadership.
• Ensure success of IDI outreach, engagement, and related events, surveys, annual reports, and other projects through the provision of excellent administrative, and operational support.
• Assist with appointment arrangements, inquiry responses, email, document review, compliance auditing, accounting, and internal/external communications.
• Organize and ensure provision of administrative, budgetary, and operational support to equity, compliance, outreach, and engagement.
• Assist in the supervision and development of student staff, including timekeeping, payroll, and fulfillment of assigned duties.
• Provide other services and perform additional, related duties as assigned, including but not limited to those normally associated with an executive secretary in order to ensure the completion of necessary work and other duties as assigned.

Unit Specific Education/Experience/Skills

Knowledge normally acquired through a high school education with course work in word processing, typing, shorthand, and grammar; five to eight years of related and progressively more responsible or expansive University work experience in maintaining account ledgers, word processing, spreadsheet, database, and presentation software; editing, composing correspondence, taking dictation; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Desired Qualifications

• Knowledge typically acquired through completion of a high school education and/or advanced degree and three (3) or more years of professional experience in diversity, equity, and inclusion program administration, office coordination, office management, or office administration. 
• Demonstrated experience and competency in word processing, spreadsheet applications, database use and maintenance, and presentation software, editing and composing correspondence, event and outreach programming; and constituent engagement.
• Demonstrated experience providing excellent communication within a diverse organization and/or community, for leaders, partners, constituents, and other audiences with varied educational and/or experiential backgrounds.
• Demonstrated commitment to diversity, inclusion, and equity within an organization, team, and/or campus environment.
• Advanced educational attainment (i.e., Bachelor’s degree, Master’s degree, and/or terminal/doctoral degree).
• Demonstrated experience providing administrative, and operational support for an office or unit responsible for regulatory compliance, policy administration, and community engagement.
• Demonstrated experience creating accessible, strategic communications, reports, websites, and other internal/external communications.
• Demonstrated experience with quantitative, qualitative, and/or mixed method research practices, design, data analyses, data processing, and/or statistics.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, age, disability or protected veteran status.

Required Application Materials

1. A letter to the Search Committee describing in detail, your interest in and qualification for this position.
2. A comprehensive resume and/or curriculum vitae describing in detail, your knowledge, skills, and experience, as related to the duties and responsibilities of this position.

Please provide all requested documentation at time of application.

Special Instructions

MSU strives to provide a flexible work environment.  This position is expected to be fulfilled primarily in-person, on the East Lansing, MI campus.  However, there may be some duties that may be performed remotely, as mutually agreed upon.

Michigan State University has been advancing the common good with uncommon will for more than 160 years. One of the top research universities in the world, MSU pushes the boundaries of discovery and forges enduring partnerships to solve the most pressing global challenges while providing life-changing opportunities to a diverse and inclusive academic community through more than 200 programs of study in 17 degree-granting colleges.

Work Hours

STANDARD 8-5

Website

inclusion.msu.edu

Remote Work Statement

MSU strives to provide a flexible work environment and this position has been designated as remote-friendly. Remote-friendly means some or all of the duties can be performed remotely as mutually agreed upon.

Bidding Eligibility ends June 13, 2023 at 11:55 PM

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About Michigan State University

Spartans work every day to advance the common good in uncommon ways.Together, we tackle some of the world?s toughest problems to find solutions that make life better?from alternative energy to better food safety to breakthrough medical and environmental applications achieved through rare isotope research.We teach. We explore and we discover. We collaborate and lead. We innovate, inspire, and empower. We achieve our potential and create circumstances that help our students and others achieve theirs.We're good at it, and we've been at it for more than 150 years.The nation?s pioneer land-grant university, MSU began as a bold experiment that democratized higher education and helped bring science and innovation into everyday life. The revolutionary concept became a model for the nation.Today, MSU is one of the top research universities in the world?on one of the biggest, greenest campuses in the nation. Home to nationally ranked and recognized academic, residential college, and service-learning programs, we?re a diverse community of dedicated students and scholars, athletes and artists, scientists and leaders.In ways both practical and profound, we work to create a stronger, more sustainable, and more hopeful future for all.

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