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University of Washington DEPUTY DIRECTOR in Seattle, Washington

Req #: 239046

Department: HEALTH SYSTEMS AND POPULATION HEALTH

Appointing Department Web Address: http://hspop.uw.edu

Job Location Detail: Hans Rosling Center (HRC)

Posting Date: 10/01/2024

Closing Info: Open Until Filled

Salary: $7,500 - $8,750 per month

Shift: First Shift

Notes: As a UW employee, you will enjoy generous benefits and work/life programs. For a complete description of our benefits for this position, please visit our website, click here. (https://hr.uw.edu/benefits/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2018/02/benefits-professional-staff-librarians-academic-staff-20230701_a11y.pdf)

As a UW employee, you have a unique opportunity to change lives on our campuses, in our state, and around the world. UW employees offer their boundless energy, creative problem-solving skills, and dedication to building stronger minds and a healthier world.

UW faculty and staff also enjoy outstanding benefits, professional growth opportunities, and unique resources in the surrounding environment noted for diversity, intellectual excitement, artistic pursuits, and natural beauty. All of which has allowed the UW to be nationally recognized as a “Great College to Work For” for four consecutive years.

The Department of Health Systems and Population Health (HSPop) has an outstanding opportunity for a full-time (100% FTE) Deputy Director to provide critical leadership, partnership development, communications strategy, as well as project, fiscal, and personnel management for the new Center for Anti-Racism and Community Health (ARCH).

About the Center for Anti-Racism and Community Health (ARCH) ARCH’s mission is to serve as a rigorous and community-driven academic hub focused on the critical interrogation and disruption of mechanisms of structural racism and discrimination that threaten the health and well-being of marginalized people, especially Black, Indigenous, and other People of Color (BIPOC) communities. The goals of the center and its scholarship are oriented around the disruption of racism and racialization rooted in white supremacy culture norms that perpetuate anti-Blackness, anti-Indigeneity, and other forms of oppression across identity spaces. We seek to expand the conceptualization, discourse, and venues for rectifying power imbalances in service to the health and humanity of all people.

About the Department of Health Systems and Population Health (HSPop) The HSPop Department, organizationally positioned within the UW School of Public Health (SPH), values and honors equity, diversity, inclusion, anti-racism, and excellence in teaching and mentoring, scholarship, practice, and service to catalyze innovative solutions that overcome complex public health challenges. We are dedicated to hiring staff who integrate the principles of equity, diversity, inclusion, anti-racism, and excellence within their roles and responsibilities. Our department is excited to welcome individuals who are eager to contribute to interdisciplinary work and offer new approaches that enhance health and well-being with sustained population impact.

The Deputy Director position will have both internal and external responsibilities ranging from strategic planning, fiscal and grant management, administering center operations, human resources, and building and fostering internal and external relationships. They will be responsible for program operations, appropriate resource allocation, and collaborations with the center’s advisory collectives/boards, faculty affiliates, and community partners.

The Deputy Director must be adept at applying anti-racism principles in: critical thinking and strategic planning; building organizational culture and personnel management; professional and social media communication; shared decision-making; sound fiscal management; strategic alignment with school and university priorities and opportunities; navigating complex systems; operating in collaborative work relationships; subscribing to shared governance approaches; engaging others representing diverse groups and communities with respect, empathy, and cultural humility; and upholding the highest ethical professional standards.

This Deputy Director will manage a complex set of activities to produce deliverables in collaboration with UW stakeholders, research teams and community partners. Complex deliverables will include internal and external strategic planning and documentation, working with the ARCH Director to consider and manage modifications to the Center’s strategic plan, creating an annual roadmap of milestone deliverables across strategic initiatives, ensuring that projects align with the strategic plan. The role will require flexibility and the ability to adapt to change, pivoting quickly when priorities shift, employing change management principles, and working with the team to operationalize new strategies. Duties include overseeing the Center budgeting process; developing and applying fiscal and HR policies and practices; collaborating with HSPop staff and faculty, and multiple levels of leadership across other UW departments, to accomplish ARCH Center’s program goals. The Deputy Director will nurture relationships with potential strategic partners, including community-based organizations of color and civic, social service, and governmental organizations. This position will supervise staff working hybrid schedules and students and volunteers who may be completely remote.

The Deputy Director will drive implementation of the ARCH Center’s mission by leading high-level and complex programmatic, administrative, and operations tasks while exercising authentic anti-racism praxis. The position will often serve as a liaison with community organizations and institutional partners seeking information from and collaboration with the ARCH Center. The Deputy Director supports the UW School of Public Health and HSPop’s goal of catalyzing innovative solutions that overcome complex public health challenges, and dedication to hiring staff who integrate the principles of equity, diversity, inclusion, and anti-racism within their roles and responsibilities.

This Deputy Director may occasionally work during evenings and weekends when necessary to meet deadlines and oversee programming and events. This position is eligible for a hybrid telework arrangement, which may include an ongoing, regular remote work arrangement in addition to reporting onsite. The University’s Seattle campus will remain the official work location. All telework, remote, and hybrid working arrangements are subject to UW, School of Public Health, and HSPop policies.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES Project Management and Leadership (35%)

  • Work closely with the ARCH Director to develop and maintain the center’s foundational goals and pursuits as well as manage and execute the center’s strategic plan with strategic direction from the center’s collectives/boards and consideration of internal and external affiliate/partner interests

  • Develop and oversee the evaluation of center activities, operations, and partnerships in relation to center goals and objectives to monitor achievements and opportunities for redirection or improvement

  • Work with center and project leadership to establish a long-term and short-term management vision, and to develop systems to better manage group activities across multiple projects

  • Facilitate and run project update meetings to include scheduling calls/meetings, agenda development, action items tracking, and clear communication

  • Triage emerging challenges through independent and creative problem solving, coordinate the flow of information between departmental and program support and project teams

  • Facilitate, plan, and participate in meetings to keep project leadership current on project activities, action-items, decisions made, challenges, etc.

  • Design and implement standard operating procedures for project-wide activities, operations, and personnel

  • Hire, onboard, and supervise center personnel, including staff, student employees, and volunteers while ensuring that all parties have the resources and training needed to do their jobs, with an eye toward career development for each individual

  • Foster a supportive, respectful, productive, and positive work environment for all center personnelPartnerships and Communications (30%)

  • Engage with internal and external partners (e.g., faculty, scholars, staff, students, advisory collectives/boards, alumni, higher education institutions, healthcare systems, professional associations, government agencies, non-profit organizations, community leaders) to identify collaborative opportunities that support the UW SPH, HSPop, and ARCH Center strategic goals

  • Organize and facilitate meetings to obtain internal and external community partner input with the aim of advancing the center’s structure, goals, priorities, projects, and objectives

  • Develop and oversee marketing and communications, as well as public relations, to inform and excite interest about the center’s efforts and accomplishments

  • Create and manage external (i.e., outside ARCH and UW) community engagement plan

  • Support advocacy and funding efforts, which may include delivering presentations that promote the center or meeting with individuals and organizations that provide philanthropic sponsorship

  • Attend school, university, and community meetings and events that relate to the mission and purpose of the center and HSPop; represent the center at local, regional, and national meetings/eventsOperations (30%)

  • Oversee day-to-day fiscal, grants management, administrative, and program operations, and collaborate closely with the department’s fiscal, grants management, administrative, operations, IT, human resources, and communications staff and teams

  • Direct the development and implementation of the center’s fiscal and administrative policies and procedures, ensuring consistency with UW, HSPop, and funder requirements

  • Oversee and monitor center budgets to ensure compliance and appropriate expenditures, and to avoid deficits or under-spending

  • Review and approve monthly budget activity reports to ensure costs follow institutional and award funding guidelines; update internal excel budgets to track expenditures; ensure UW encumbrances are correct and take corrective action for any misplaced charges

  • Coordinate writing and completion of all funder-required reporting, including annual and final progress reports; collaborate on and support the writing and submission of grant proposalsOther Duties, as Assigned (5%) MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

  • Bachelor's degree in fields or disciplines related to work with human populations (e.g., organizational non-profit management and leadership, public health, nursing, public policy, public administration, business administration, history, ethnic studies, sociology, anthropology, communication)

  • AND 5 years of non-profit, government, higher education, administrative management, or related experience OR an equivalent combination of education and experience. Equivalent education/experience will substitute for all minimum qualifications except when there are legal requirements, such as a license/certification/registration. ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS Five years of non-profit, government, higher education, administrative management, or related experience, including:

  • Knowledge of anti-racism, critical race theory, diversity, equity, and inclusion; including fundamental topics, concepts, principles, frameworks, and approaches to promote and advance these ideas at the individual and organizational levels

  • Demonstrated commitment and ability to infuse equity, inclusion, and anti-racism principles within planning and execution of tasks, duties, and responsibilities

  • Prior experience in the development and implementation of diversity, equity, and inclusion strategies/initiatives using an anti-racism, anti-oppression lens to promote health and well-being in organizational and community contexts

  • Demonstrated experience supervising and/or mentoring staff and teams

  • Project management experience, from inception to implementation

  • Experience collaborating with diverse stakeholders from underrepresented, and/or historically excluded groups and communities to promote initiatives grounded in anti-racism principles

  • Ability to represent ARCH, HSPop, and SPH acting independently, as well as fully operating in accordance with the highest ethical standards and expectations

  • Ability to interact respectfully, empathetically, and with cultural humility when engaging with persons of diverse backgrounds and at all levels of the university and external community groups

  • Ability to manage priorities, handle and initiate multiple projects, problem-solve, and exercise good judgment in a dynamic environment

  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills

  • Proven accuracy and attention to detail, as well proactive anticipation of needs and ability to work efficiently and effectively to meet deadlines

  • Proven ability to handle sensitive situations and highly confidential information with tact, discretion, integrity, and diplomacy

  • Skilled in communicating complex policies, procedures, and practices to others

  • Ability to quickly and successfully embrace change and adapt effectively in response

  • Demonstrated effectiveness managing in a culture of change and transition

  • Demonstrated proficiency with Microsoft Office applications (Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, SharePoint), Zoom and other teleconferencing technologies, Adobe reader, website content maintenance, and database management and electronic methods to collect data

  • Comfort in learning and using technology and technological applications to assist in project management, event management, cloud sharing, and more DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS

  • Master’s degree in fields or disciplines related to work with human populations (e.g., organizational management and leadership, public health, nursing, public policy, public administration, business administration, history, ethnic studies, sociology, anthropology, communication)

  • Understanding of principles and approaches for community-organizing and experience with implementation in partnership with communities of color

  • Experience managing sponsored projects and budgets

  • Familiarity and experience with project management tools and software

  • Knowledge of higher education academic and advancement/fundraising structures, processes, and protocols

  • Experience navigating UW systems including HR, Finance, and Compensation

  • Experience applying operations policies and procedures in an organization

  • Experience in change management methodologies Application Process: The application process may include completion of a variety of online assessments to obtain additional information that will be used in the evaluation process. These assessments may include Work Authorization, Cover Letter and/or others. Any assessments that you need to complete will appear on your screen as soon as you select “Apply to this position”. Once you begin an assessment, it must be completed at that time; if you do not complete the assessment, you will be prompted to do so the next time you access your “My Jobs” page. If you select to take it later, it will appear on your "My Jobs" page to take when you are access ready. Please note that your application will not be reviewed, and you will not be considered for this position until all required assessments have been completed.

University of Washington is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, among other things, race, religion, color, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, sex, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information.

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