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Position Description
Assistant Director of Diversity, Equity, And Inclusion (DEI)
Role Overview
Friends School of Baltimore is a Quaker, co-educational, college preparatory school, Pre-K through Grade 12, in Baltimore City, enrolling 800 students, 45% of whom identify as children of color. We are guided by the Quaker ideals of simplicity, peace, integrity, community, equality, and stewardship. We strive for our community to reflect the racial, ethnic, socioeconomic, and religious diversity of our city.
Friends School faculty members teach by example, blending intellectual exploration, enthusiasm, and joy. Every day in their classrooms, they challenge and encourage students to think deeply, to question, and to seek truth, while instilling in each of them a strong sense of social responsibility, a willingness to embrace challenges, and an awareness of their potential as individuals.
Friends School teachers 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 faculty members whose teaching styles and experiences demonstrate:
General Function:
The Assistant Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) at the Friends School of Baltimore is a key position, focusing on the needs of Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) students, families, and employees through the DEI Office. This position will begin on July 1, 2024. Our school believes that all community members are responsible for actively and deeply engaging with the multiple dimensions of diversity. The importance we place in this position derives from our belief that an outstanding 21st Century education can only take place within an inclusive school setting characterized by both demographic diversity and a shared valuing, appreciation, and embrace of difference in all its forms. As a Quaker school, we have an explicit and enduring mandate to seek greater equity and justice within and beyond our community.
Essential Functions:
Reporting Lines: This position reports to the Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
Schedule and Location: Full-time; 40 hrs./week; Monday - Friday Friends School of Baltimore
Start date: July 1, 2024
Skills and Qualifications
Education and Experience:
Required Skills:
Ability to foster sustained and challenging conversation and action on topics such as race, ethnicity, gender identity, family composition, sexuality, socio-economic difference, and ability. 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.
Competitive salary and generous benefits are offered.
Friends is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and its employment decisions are without regard to age, race, color, religion, gender, national origin, physical, or mental disability, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, or any category protected by law. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment.
Full Time
$71k-118k (estimate)
05/01/2024
05/18/2024
friendsbalt.org
Baltimore, MD
500 - 1,000