Associate – Diversity, Equity, And Inclusion, Eab Seramount

About EAB

At EAB, our mission is to make education smarter and our communities stronger. We harness the collective power of more than 2,100 schools, colleges, and universities to uncover and apply proven practices and transformative insights. And since complex problems require multifaceted solutions, we work with each school differently to apply these insights through a customized blend of research, technology, and services. From kindergarten to college and beyond, EAB partners with education leaders, practitioners, and staff to accelerate progress and drive results across three key areas: enrollment management, student success, and institutional operations and strategy.

At EAB, we serve not only our partner institutions but each other—that's why we are always working to make sure our employees love their jobs and are invested in their community. See how we've been recognized for this dedication to our employees by checking out our recent awards.

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The Role in Brief:

Associate – Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, EAB Seramount

EAB Seramount is a strategic business dedicated to advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the workplace.

We serve forward thinking organizations with integrated tools that provide a strategic and holistic map for setting new standards for workplace culture. Over the past four decades we’ve built deep, data-powered intelligence on the employee experience, which allows us to address specific client workplace challenges related to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI). We excel in serving as our members’ go to partner in developing and progressing their diversity and inclusion strategies. Our business is in growth mode and offers the right person the opportunity to be part of a diverse, dynamic, creative, and highly skilled team partnering with leading companies to advance more inclusive corporate cultures.

The Associate will be a key member of the Advisory team within EAB Seramount, reporting to the Managing Director. We seek a teammate with excellent analytical skills, ambition, relationship building skills and professionalism. This role combines project management with extraordinary data analytics skills and the opportunity to do high-impact work.

The position is located in Washington, DC. and open to remote work for exceptional candidates.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Participate in ongoing client interactions and engagements to support overall needs of the advisory team, Diversity Best Practices.
• Support advisory presentations by utilizing research and best practices to create content and develop key talking points for the advisors.
• Leverage existing research and data to respond to member inquiries that consist of high quality deliverables developed in a timely fashion.
• Communicate ideas clearly and logically using executive-focused language, tone, and channel through written deliverables, webinars, and presentations.
• Contribute to research and presentations that synthesize complex ideas in diversity, equity and inclusion into actionable solutions for DBP members.
• Work effectively in a team environment with relationship managers, and research to support our existing members.
• Strong project manager who is able to set agenda, define timelines and support the project team throughout the advisory work/project.
• Develop, maintain and monitor documentation to support Seramount business process improvement efforts.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree, with an excellent academic record and 1-2+ years of post-graduate, professional experience OR a Master’s/PhD degree and 0 years of post-graduate professional experience
• Management or strategy consulting
• Project or event management
• Creating external facing written and/or data-based deliverables that include PowerPoint presentations
• Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
• Experience with at least two of the following:

Ideal Qualifications:

• Experience in working in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in a corporate setting.
• Experience working in a team environment and as an individual contributor
• Excellent prioritization and time management especially in a fast-paced environment

Benefits:

Consistent with our belief that our employees are our most valuable resource, EAB offers a competitive and inclusive benefits package.

• 401(k) retirement plan with company match
• Phase Back to Work program for employees returning from parental leave
• Benefits kick in day one, see the full details here.
• Daytime leave policy for community service or fitness activities (up to 10 hours a month each)
• Wellness programs including gym discounts and incentives to promote healthy living
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance; dependents and domestic partners eligible
• Infertility treatment coverage and adoption or surrogacy assistance
• Paid parental leave for birthing and non-birthing parents
• Dynamic growth opportunities with merit-based promotion philosophy
• 20+ days of PTO annually, in addition to paid firm holidays

At EAB, we believe that to fulfill our mission to “make education smarter and our communities stronger” we need team members who bring a diversity of perspectives to the table and a workplace where each team member is valued, respected and heard.