Equity, Inclusion & Talent Director

Children's Law Center; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

The Director of Equity, Inclusion, and Talent at Children's Law Center will spearhead DEI initiatives across the organization, aligning culture, policies, and external communications with cultural humility and inclusion. Reporting to the COO, this role collaborates with the leadership team to embed inclusive practices in programs and staff development.

The position requires building a diverse, high‑performing workforce, designing trainings, and overseeing recruitment, retention, and recognition

Qualifications

• Inclusion initiatives planning and evaluation with leadership; develop metrics to assess impact.
• Foster organizational culture and values; ensure staff engagement and policies enable staff to thrive.
• Lead recruitment, development, retention, and assessment of a diverse, high‑quality staff with recognition programs.
• Design organization-wide training to build inclusion and cultural humility skills.

Responsibilities

• Inclusion Initiatives Planning and Evaluation: Work with the leadership team and senior program directors to ensure that inclusion initiatives are incorporated into all organizational planning, internal and external work. Help to develop and implement metrics for regularly evaluating the effectiveness of this work.
• Organizational Culture and Values: Work with the leadership team and senior program directors to ensure that all staff engagement, as well as, personnel and management policies and practices, enable each staff member to thrive and be their best selves. Ensure cultural humility in client representation, external communications, and policy strategy.
• Staff Recruitment, Hiring, Assessment and Recognition: Lead the development and implementation of a program to recruit, develop retain and assess a diverse, high-quality staff. Create a rewards and recognition process consistent with the organization’s culture and values.
• Training and Development: Design and implement an organization-wide curriculum to build the necessary skills for staff at all levels to advance inclusion initiatives and organizational values, and engage in ongoing conversations with co-workers regarding diversity, inclusion, equity and cultural humility.

Skills

Diversity training

DEI program development

Disrupting systems

Conflict resolution

Training design

Communication skills

Recruitment & onboarding

Discretion

Relationship-building

Project management

Job description

The Director of Equity, Inclusion, and Talent at Children's Law Center will spearhead DEI initiatives across the organization, aligning culture, policies, and external communications with cultural humility and inclusion. Reporting to the COO, this role collaborates with the leadership team to embed inclusive practices in programs and staff development.

The position requires building a diverse, high‑performing workforce, designing trainings, and overseeing recruitment, retention, and recognition