Director Of Diversity, Equity And Inclusion

Carney, Sandoe & Associates, an education recruitment firm, is currently seeking a Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion for Friends School, a Quaker PreK-12 school in Baltimore, MD.

Friends School of Baltimore is a Quaker school that exists to foster in young people the skills,

knowledge, and habits of mind needed to partner with their communities and to be courageous

change-makers in the world.

Responsibilities

The Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is a full-time administrative position and a Senior

Administrative Team member, reporting to the Head of School. The Director of Diversity, Equity,

and Inclusion has the following responsibilities:

Teaching and Student Support

• Works with divisional principals to develop and implement initiatives and programming for students
• Teaches the Diversity Practitioners class for Upper School students and regularly engages with Lower and Middle School students
• Works with the school's senior administrative leadership to monitor, encourage, and ensure diversity and social justice issues are included throughout the PK-12 curriculum
• Works with students and adults to create cross-cultural discussions and transformative learning opportunities.
• Assists in student support services on an individual and programmatic basis as needed

Professional Development and Culture

• As a member of the Board of Trustees’ Diversity Committee, works to implement and monitor the goals of the Board’s Diversity Plan
• Develops and implements the plan for ongoing cultural competency training for Friends School faculty and staff, the Board of Trustees, the Parents' Association, and other school groups
• Develops an area of focus for diversity-related programming each year based on formal and informal interviews, surveys, and other tools
• Supervises a team of part-time Diversity Coordinators, who assist in planning and implementing the school’s DEI goals and initiatives, and oversees the Assistant Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
• Oversees the working body of the Professional Community that focuses on DEI initiatives

Family and Community Support

• Serves as a resource and sounding board on issues of inclusion and difference for all community members.
• Oversees the implementation of the school's Mission Fund and helps raise awareness of the needs and benefits of this fund in enhancing community life.
• Coordinates and facilitates affinity and support groups for parents and students.
• Works with the Parents' Association and the Alumni Board to encourage diverse participation in parent and alumni activities.

Admissions, Recruitment, and Advocacy

• Partners with the Admission Office to enhance recruitment of a diverse student body and is the school's liaison to Baltimore Educational Scholarship Trust (BEST)
• Assists in recruiting, hiring, and retaining new faculty and staff, interviewing all candidates for full-time positions at the school, engaging in outreach with local universities, churches, schools, and businesses to expand hiring pools, and contributing to the new teachers' mentoring program
• Works with the Development Office to support the stewardship of scholarship programs
• Serves as advisor to the Admission Committee and the Financial Aid Committee.

Qualifications and Skills

Friends School of Baltimore seeks an individual who is able to foster sustained and challenging

conversation and action on topics such as race, ethnicity, gender identity, family composition,

sexuality, socioeconomic difference, neurodiversity, and ableness. Quaker communities have a

long and proud tradition of embracing the tension of complex subjects like these in order to bring

about greater understanding and more effective action. The measure of the Director's success,

therefore, will be the cultivation - rather than the elimination - of these tensions into honest,

productive, and respectful discourse that flows across campus and into the greater community. The

ideal candidate will have strong written and oral expression skills, a comfort with exploration and

ambiguity, a compassionate heart, and a curious and open mind. The ability to develop and

oversee multiple programs simultaneously is essential.

• Candidates should demonstrate a willingness to understand and incorporate Quaker principles and Quaker education into their work.
• Bachelor's degree required, with an advanced degree preferred.

Educators at Friends are expected to model and foster the habits of mind we believe are essential

to an outstanding education: creativity, curiosity, empathy, reflection, and resilience. We seek

educators whose teaching styles and experiences demonstrate the following:

• An ability to infuse technology to enhance student learning.
• Flexibility, empathy, and vision
• An openness to interdisciplinary teaching.
• A record of successful collaboration with colleagues, families, and students.
• A commitment to lifelong learning, and ongoing professional development.
• A desire to understand diverse attitudes, beliefs, behaviors, and practices and to incorporate a culturally responsive lens into teaching and learning.
• An appreciation for and understanding of the social and emotional development of students.

**Please apply here through LinkedIn. Do not contact the school directly.

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