Salary : $141,039.18 - $178,775.38 Annually
Location : Seattle, WA
Job Type: Special Duty Assignment
Job Number: 2025MT24756
Department: MTD - Metro Transit
Division: General Manager
Opening Date: 06/20/2025
Closing Date: 7/6/2025 11:59 PM Pacific
FLSA: Exempt
Bargaining Unit: Z3 : KC Personnel Guidelines
Full- or Part-Time: Full Time

Summary
**This position is only open to King County Metro Employees who have completed the probationary period in their current career service position. **

King County Metro seeks an expert race equity practitioner to serve as the Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (EIB) Manager III. This position will ensure Equity and Social Justice (ESJ) initiatives within the Metro department are aligned and integrated with King County's pro-equity and anti-racism goals and approaches.

Metro's EIB team works to deliver on a long-standing vision to become a racially just department. EIB is committed to improving the lives of the workforce by systemically developing and retaining a more racially just workforce and operationalizing belonging at all levels of Metro: leadership, management, and staff.

EIB's Values are: Personal growth and spirit; interdependence and collective liberation; collaboration and solidarity; love and joy; emergency and curiosity; challenging status quo, justice, and humility.

This role will continue to refine and deepen the strategic direction of the existing EIB portfolio of pro-equity tactics and outcomes by continuing to develop internal coalitions of practitioners and organizers committed to race equity. As the leader of the EIB team, you will actively work to build the capacity leaders, employees, and partners to create the conditions for a healthy and thriving workforce free of oppression.
This recruitment will be used to fill One (1) Special Duty Assignment (SDA) EIB Manager III. This SDA is open to current King County Metro employees who have completed the probationary period in their current position. The SDA is anticipated to last nine months with a possibility of extension.
Job Duties

Applying principles is a daily responsibility and a foundational expectation for all King County employees. In this role, you will apply equity and social justice principles that exemplify shared values, behaviors, and practices to all aspects of the work.

As the EIB Manager III, you will:

• Develop trusted and durable relationships with Metro leaders, teams, employees and partners.
• Supervise, support, and develop the members of the EIB team.
• Assess the effectiveness of institutional equity goals and advise Metro leadership on identifying the right outcomes.
• Deliver high- quality and timely support to leaders and employees experiencing racialized and gendered harm.
• Communicate new/updated programs, policies, and processes to department leadership and employees.
• Work with leaders to deliver race equity workshops that will enhance facilitation.
• Ensure work units and teams are informed and empowered to make thoughtful and strategic decisions that support the department's ESJ goals.
• Provide consultation, coaching, and support for employees and leaders to be innovative and adaptive in providing racially equitable programs and/or services.
• Facilitate and hold space with leadership and workgroup at Metro to advance racial and gender equity.
• Provide direct support to Metro's Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), Equity Champions, and other emerging employee-led efforts.
• Establish internal coalitions across and within divisions with Metro partners such as Organizational Health, EEO, Labor, and Human Resources to advance enterprise-wide goals.
• Partner with department leadership, OESJ and human resources to drive ESJ action plans throughout the department.
• Collaborate with internal and external partners to cultivate a culture that prioritizes racially just outcomes.
• Develop and monitor budget to appropriately allocate resources.

Experience, Qualifications, Knowledge, Skills

We are looking for candidates who meet the Minimum Qualifications and Skills:

• Possession of a high level of self-awareness, emotional intelligence, and an ongoing engagement to self- exploration related to race, power, and privilege, including performing a power analysis.
• Strong critical thinking skills with the ability to analyze power, identify manifestations of racism and oppression, and support leadership growth areas.
• Imagination and demonstrated creativity to develop and support new processes that complement more equitable outputs and outcomes.
• Demonstrated experience dismantling institutionalized racist practices in a community, business, government, or political setting.
• Skill in communicating effectively with employees to inspire culture change regarding communities who have historically been harmed, neglected, or excluded.
• Experience engaging and involving historically marginalized employees in leadership development and organizing for change.
• Aptitude to navigate through challenging situations with honesty, tact and diplomacy, while fostering a meaningful engagement.
• Demonstrated ability to work with diverse individuals with varying opinions and backgrounds and handle politically sensitive inquiries.
• Experience creating processes and systems to document, report, and monitor equitable outcomes.
• Strong analytical skills, including quantitative and qualitative analysis with the ability to translate metrics, research, and trends into strategy and improvement opportunities.
• Experience working with a diversity of stakeholders, such as unions, elected officials, leadership and workers.
• Facilitation, mediation, and conflict resolution skills with a specific focus on racialized conflict.
• Ability to manage complex and multi-disciplinary projects to completion.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office 365 including Word, Excel, Outlook, SharePoint, and OneDrive.
• Any combination of education and experience that demonstrates the ability to perform the job duties.

The most competitive candidates will also possess these desirable qualifications:

• Evidence of prior leadership that notably impacted systems of oppression and/or institutional racism.
• Master's Degree in human resources, education, sociology, public administration, social justice, or related field; or equivalent (JD, MBA, M.Ed, etc.).
• Five to eight years of progressively responsible, related experience in advancing equity, inclusion, and belonging in a complex organization.

Supplemental Information
Application & Selection Process

• A completed Job Application (employment history should go back at least 10 years if you have 10 years of employment (or more to include all relevant experience). Resumes are not accepted in lieu of a completed job application.
• Cover Letter detailing your background and describing how you meet or exceed the requirements.
• Complete the supplemental questions

All the application materials will be screened for qualifications, competitiveness, completeness, attention to detail and written communications kills. The most competitive candidates may be invited to participate in one or more interviews. Final offers are contingent on successful completion of reference checks.

Work Schedule
This position is exempt from the provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act and not overtime eligible. Employees are paid on a bi-weekly schedule, every other Thursday, comprising a 40-hour workweek, normally 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday.

Union Representation/Job Code/Grade
This position is not represented by a union
235501/75

Work Location
This position will be located in the King Street Center Building- 201 S Jackson St, Seattle, WA98104.

Teleworking Requirement
The work associated with this position will be performed predominantly in a hybrid work environment working in the office and at home. Employees will have access to shared workspaces at various King County facilities. Employees must reside in Washington state and within areas on able distance to their King County worksite to respond to workplace
reporting requirements.

Who May Apply
We are only accepting applications from qualified, eligible King County Metro Employees who have completed the probationary period in their current career service position.

To Apply
If you are interested in pursuing this position, please follow the application instructions carefully. If you need this announcement in an alternate language or format, would like to request accommodation or assistance in the application or assessment process or if you have questions please contact: Manal Tirhi,

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Guided by our "True North", we are making King County a welcoming community where every person can thrive. We value diversity, inclusion, and belonging in our workplace and workforce. To reach this goal we are committed to workforce equity. Equitable recruiting, support, and retention is how we will obtain the highest quality workforce in our region; a workforce that shares and will help advance our guiding principles--we are one team; we solve problems; we focus on the customer; we drive for results; we are racially just; we respect all people; we lead the way, and we are responsible stewards. We encourage people of all backgrounds and identities to apply, including Native American and people of color, immigrants, refugees, women, LGBTQ+, people living with disabilities, and veterans.
King County is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO)Employer.
No person is unlawfully excluded from employment opportunities based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex (including gender identity, sexual orientation and pregnancy), age, genetic information, disability, veteran status, or other protected class. Our EEO policy applies to all employment actions, including but not limited to recruitment, hiring, selection for training, promotion, transfer, demotion, layoff, termination, rates of pay or other forms of compensation.
King County offers a highly-competitive compensation and benefits package designed to meet the diverse needs of our employees and support our employees' health and well-being. Eligible positions receive the following benefits and have access to the following programs:

• Excellent medical, dental, and vision coverage options: King County provides eligible employees with options, so they can decide what's best for themselves and their eligible dependents
• Life and disability insurance: employees are provided basic coverage and given the opportunity to purchase additional insurance for both the employee and eligible dependents
• Retirement: eligible King County employees may participate in a pension plan through the Washington State Department of Retirement Systems and a 457(b) deferred-compensation plan
• Transportation program and ORCA transit pass
• 12 paid holidays each year plus two personal holidays
• Generous vacation and paid sick leave
• Paid parental, family and medical, and volunteer leaves
• Flexible Spending Account
• Wellness programs
• Onsite activity centers
• Employee Giving Program
• Employee assistance programs
• Flexible schedules and telecommuting options, depending on position
• Training and career development programs

For additional information about employee benefits, visit our

This is a general description of the benefits offered to eligible King County employees, and every effort has been made to ensure its accuracy. If any information on this document conflicts with the provisions of a collective bargaining agreement (CBA), the CBA prevails.

NOTE: Benefits for Term Limited Temporary (TLT) or Short Term Temporary (STT) positions, including leave eligibility and/or participation in the pension plan through the Washington State Department of Retirement Systems, will vary based upon the terms and details of the position. Short Term Temporary positions are not eligible for an ORCA transit pass.

For inquiries about the specifics of this position, please contact the recruiter identified on this job posting.
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Are you a current King County Metro employee?

• Yes
• No

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MTD - Are you applying to this position as an eligible current or previous King County Employee Priority Placement Program Participant? ANDIs this position the same or lower percentage of full-time when compared to the position held at the point of the notification of layoff? ANDDo you possess the skills and abilities to qualify for this position?

• Yes, I was given a layoff notice from my Career Service role at King County and I am within two years of the effective date of my layoff. Additionally, the position I was laid off from was the same or a higher percentage of FT status when compared to this one.
• No.

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MTD - If you answered yes to the question above and you are applying for this position as a Priority Placement Participant, to be considered, you must provide the following three pieces of information in the space provided:1. The title you held when you received your layoff notice2. The department you worked in3. The effective date of your layoff
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I certify that the statements made by me on the application and supplemental questions are, to the best of my knowledge, true, complete and correct. I understand that any misrepresentation or material omission of fact on this or any other document required by King County may constitute grounds for rejection, or if employed by King County, for disciplinary measures, including dismissal.

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• No

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