Director, Employee Experience Jobs

The Rutgers University Foundation (RUF) seeks a collaborative and emphatetic professional to lead Foundation-specific employee experience efforts as the Director of Employee Experience. The Director of Employee Experience will be responsible for serving as the reporting party for Foundation staff for personal and professional challenges, manage the Diversity, Equity & Inclusion efforts, and develop community building events and focuses for RUF staff.

Essential Functions

• Work within Foundation guidelines to support RUF staff through resource connections and counseling
• Serve as the reporting party for Foundation staff for personal and professional challenges
• Collaborate with the Executive Diversity Council & RUF Board of Directors, Human Capital & Diversity Committee
• Develop a supplier diversity program that will affirm our commitment to DE&I and build a new resource pool for the university
• Manage Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DE&I) protocols; host workshops and seminars for RUF staff and provide resources, both internally and externally
• Build an infrastructure that ensures all employees will have the support they need to succeed
• Work with the President’s Office to educate RUF staff on diversity topics related to organizational purpose to create a culture of inclusive behaviors and ensure access to diversity expertise throughout the organization
• Participate in onboarding and orientation activities in new employee workspaces

Skills And Abilities

Consistency

• Demonstrate the ability to operate autonomously
• Meet and exceed the team’s defined roles and responsibilities within the department/project
• Execute, devise and implement an increasingly complex project portfolio

Contributions

• Set the operational goals of the department/project/ program
• Advance the mission of the department/Rutgers through innovative ideas
• Sustain strong working relationships with internal and external partners

Competencies

• Demonstrate the ability to oversee university leadership directives
• Demonstrate the ability to operate autonomously
• Demonstrate the ability to work on projects across the university
• Demonstrate the ability to manage projects, sub-unit(s) or a team

Leadership

• Lead a comprehensive strategy for a department/project
• Demonstrate the ability to operate autonomously
• Demonstrate the ability to successfully manage and lead a team in a way that maximizes potential of each team member

Education/ Qualifications

Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of progressively responsible experience in alumni engagement, advancement, non-profit or higher education. Master’s degree preferred.

Mental Demands

Clarity of focus while juggling complex projects or deadlines.

Workplace Arrangements

This is classified as an office-centric hybrid position. Colleagues working under an office-centric hybrid arrangement have a primary workstation in a university or foundation location and are in the office between one and five days a week. The frequency with which they are present in the office depends on their role and function and the interdependency of other functions.

Working Conditions

This position requires little physical effort. Will work evenings, weekends, or odd hours to meet resource-raising commitments. Typical working conditions with an absence of disagreeable elements. This position requires some early mornings and late evenings to accommodate meetings, travel, events, and external constituent’s schedules.

Benefits

• Comprehensive no cost dental, and no cost vision insurance for employee and dependents
• Significant tuition reductions
• Office-centric hybrid work schedule
• Accrual of three weeks of annual vacation time, in addition to two personal holidays and three administrative leave days each year
• 9 holidays, as well as paid time off between December 25 and New Year’s Day
• $40 monthly cell phone reimbursement
• Parental leave
• 403(b) plan with matching employer contribution
• Comprehensive medical
• Professional development is highly valued at the Rutgers University Foundation, where employees are encouraged to look across the organization to develop new skills and abilities for professional career progression

Rutgers University Foundation

Founded in 1973, Rutgers University Foundation is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization whose sole mission is to advance Rutgers’ pursuit of excellence in education, research, and public service. By providing the bridge between donors and the schools and programs, faculty, and students that make up the university, RUF inspires philanthropic support, fosters connections with alumni and friends, and empowers Rutgers to better the world.

Equal Employment Opportunity

It is Foundation policy to provide equal employment opportunity to all its employees and applicants for employment regardless of their race, creed, color, national origin, age, ancestry, nationality, marital or domestic partnership or civil union status, sex, pregnancy, gender identity or expression, disability status, liability for military service, protected veteran status, affectional or sexual orientation, atypical cellular or blood trait, genetic information (including the refusal to submit to genetic testing), or any other category protected by law. As an institution, we value diversity of background and opinion, and prohibit discrimination or harassment based on any legally protected class in the areas of hiring, recruitment, promotion, transfer, demotion, training, compensation, pay, fringe benefits, layoff, termination or any other terms and conditions of employment.

COVID-19

Under Presidential Executive Order 14042, Executive Order on Ensuring Adequate COVID Safety Protocols for Federal Contractors, employees must be fully vaccinated prior to beginning employment with the Rutgers University Foundation.

The Foundation will consider requests for exemptions from the executive order’s vaccination requirement for medical or religious reasons. However, if you are not granted an exemption for a medical or religious reason, you must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19.