Job Requisition ID:Time Type:Full time
Employee Group:Staff
Job Category:Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
Employment Type:Permanent
Department:Associate Vice-President, Equity Diversity, Inclusion and Anti-Racism - Institutional Priorities
Hiring Range:$104,002.41 - $130,003.01
Posting Information:This posting is for an existing vacancy.
The internal posting deadline for this position is Thursday, October 29, 2026 at 11:59PM.
Job Description:Primary Purpose This senior level position will provide strategic leadership and will work with internal and external university communities to lead, articulate and effect change in equity and anti-racism through competency and capacity building and stakeholder engagement. The overall purpose is to challenge existing structures to facilitate cultural change through transformative justice.
Key Accountabilities - Leads the strategic direction of Education and Outreach portfolio within the EDI-RO for the University of Waterloo community (main campus, satellite campuses).
- Develops, leads, and provides strategic direction and project management oversight of the Education & Outreach Unit (EOU) to deliver key policies and strategic initiatives (in consultation with the AVP, EDI-R).
- Leads and represents the EDI-RO's EOU in any discussions on competency and capacity building, or education related to equity and anti-racism and transformative change on campus and beyond.
- Identifies new and significant opportunities for leadership, including educating the research
- community and pursuing potential new collaborations.
- Leads, manages, motivates, and coach staff.
- Hires, manages, and deploys staff to meet and exceed EDI-R competency and capacity goals and objectives.
- Coaches, mentors, and manages a team of experienced professional equity and anti-racism educator's/adult facilitators.
- Conducts and reviews Annual Performance Plans and individual work plans with direct reports, and ensures adherence to annual performance planning and review processes within the EDI-RO.
- Facilitates the creation, development, and review of equity and anti-racism educational content through anti-oppressive pedagogies.
- Conducts research of a superior quality on improving equity and anti-racism at the University of Waterloo.
- Evaluates current policies, practices and programs to make recommendations about best or promising practices.
- Develops educational programs and practical training on equity for the university community.
- Oversees the monitoring, analysis, and research trends and complex issues in equity and anti-racism.
- Oversees the development of educational content for the EDI-RO
- Provides academic and professional resources (e.g., Briefing Notes) that support the policy directions and strategic priorities of the EDI-RO.
- Shares and delivers equity and anti-racism competency and capacity building sessions to senior leaders (e.g., Exec Council, Board of Governors, Senate, Deans Council, etc.)
- Supports the implementation of the University's Cross Institutional Priorities (CIP).
- Leads and maintains quality assurance of the institution's Program Area Leads (PALs) CIP.
- Develops and directs critical relationships with internal and external community members to increase the University's equity and anti-racism impact domestically and internationally.
- Develops and directs critical relationships with faculty to advance equity and anti-racism competency and capacity building strategic goals.
Required Qualifications Education - PhD in a relevant discipline preferred.
Experience - Significant knowledge of building and leading complex teams of intersecting identities within oppressive institutional environments
- Expert knowledge in teaching, adult facilitation, and competency and capacity building in an institutional context
- Demonstrated research portfolio in equity and anti-racism (or a related discipline)
- Demonstrated experience of community engagement and working with racialized and marginalized communities
- Demonstrated ability to code-switch, code-mesh, and engage with hierarchal and lateral systems of oppression
- Demonstrated ability to engage with internal and external community competing interests
- Demonstrated understanding of the historical, social, economic, legal, and political context underlying race, racism, and systemic anti-racism movements in Ontario
- Significant experience working with stakeholders with competing interest and limited knowledge/expertise in anti-racism
- Experience developing and implementing strategic plans and institutional-wide programs
- Experience in managing institutional risks through corporate risk registers
- Experience effecting organizational change, including policy, procedural, practical, and behavioral change
- Experience implementing and enforcing corporate anti-racism policies
- Proven ability in project management and leading teams/employees
- Experience working on organization-wide committees and working collaboratively with multiple stakeholders
- Proven ability to advance policies, programs, and practices with the framework of anti-racism
- Experience, and demonstrated ability to build partnerships, collaborate, and consult meaningfully with equity seeking groups
- Experience in developing anti-racism related education, policies, and programming.
- Experience developing and managing corporate budgets
Knowledge/Skills/Abilities - Expert-level political acuity and strategic thinking skills
- Expert-level facilitation skills
- Ability to teach, coach, and mentor staff, students, and faculty
- Demonstrated strong understanding of equity, intersectionality, Anti-racism, decolonization, inclusion, anti-oppression, the Ontario Human Rights Code, the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, the Anti-Racism Act (as well as other relevant legislation), and the application of those terms, frameworks and legislations in an institutional context
- The professional confidence and communication skills to effectively engage community members on what can often be contentious or delicate issues
- Excellent organizational and project management skills
- Ability to work on confidential and sensitive matters with tact and discretion
- A high level of interpersonal skills and the capacity to listen effectively and sensitively to a broad range of diverse stakeholders, including students, faculty, and staff members
- Advanced experience with Microsoft Office programs, SharePoint, Adobe Acrobat Professional, and/or other data content management systems, quantitative and qualitative research design, and methodologies.
