Title and Standard Job Description Library

• Job Summary: The job summary is a brief statement explaining the primary functions of the job, including its main purpose and overall goal.
  Leads the development and implementation of proactive diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives in support of the university's strategic plan to create a learning and working environment where all have an opportunity to succeed.
• Job Responsibilities: Job responsibilities are the core job duties that people in this job usually perform.
  • Plans, guides, and advises the university's executive officers on diversity, equity, inclusion, and affirmative action matters. Collaborates with university management to create, implement, and monitor programs designed to ensure fair and equitable treatment of students, faculty, and staff
  • Leads the university in implementing strategic initiative including the creation of a culture for equity, diversity, and inclusion. Partners with campus leaders, faculty, students, staff, and internal and external constituencies to ensure programing supports the university's values and strategic goals
  • Provides strategic direction for training initiatives on cultural competency, gender differences, disability, and sexual harassment, building a climate of equity and inclusion, and other topics designed to increase awareness and support of equity and inclusion values, and maintaining compliance with applicable laws in collaboration with university stakeholders
  • Serves as a liaison between the university and enforcement agencies. Represents the university to external community, organizations, and agencies. Collaborates with external and internal constituency groups, including students and protected veterans, to promote and advance diversity, equity, and inclusion
  • Serves as the central resource for student, faculty, staff and the community on issues related to protected class discrimination, harassment, and Title IX
  • Manages the university's compliance with Affirmative Action including Affirmative Action for Protected Veterans, Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO), Title IX, and other applicable regulations. Oversees EEO and Title IX investigations as a result of claims of discrimination, harassment, assault, and other complaints filed by students, faculty, staff and administrators. Ensures that investigatory process, notification, reporting, and documentation comply with Federal regulations and statutes
  • Assesses and monitors program effectiveness and keeps management informed of equal opportunity progress and issues through periodic reports
  • Provides analysis of legislation and regulations related to equity, affirmative action, and Title IX and makes recommendations to leadership on university policy and practice
  • Manages the department budget including developing budget proposals, justifying expenses, and monitoring accounts
  • Exercises supervisory authority, including hiring, transferring, suspending, promoting, managing conduct and performance, discharging, assigning, rewarding, disciplining, and/or approving hours worked of at least 2.0 full-time equivalent (FTE) employees
• Education: Education describes the minimum level of education that people in this job usually have. Education that is a preferred minimum is recommended for this job but not required. Relevant work experience can satisfy preferred minimum education. A hiring manager may include additional education requirements when recruiting for a position.
  Bachelor's Degree Preferred Minimum
• FLSA Status: Federal regulations determine Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) status. Employees who are non-exempt receive overtime pay when they work more than 40 hours in a week. Employees who are exempt do not receive overtime pay when they work more than 40 hours in a week.
  Exempt
• Institution Job: A job that has primary responsibilities that impact the majority or the entirety of the institution, or has significantly larger scope than the school/college/division in which it resides, and typically contains “(Inst)” in the job title or mentions “institution” or “enterprise” in a standard job description.
  Yes
• Required Supervisory Duty of at Least 2.0 Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) Employees: The supervisor directly oversees the equivalent of at least 2.0 FTE employees or indirectly oversees one or more supervisors. The supervisor has the authority to hire, transfer, suspend, promote, manage conduct and performance, discharge, assign, reward, and discipline employees. The supervisor typically reviews the work of employees and may approve employee timesheets.
  Yes
• Employee Category: Each employee category is unique in type of work performed, job security, benefits package, and/or ability to organize unions. Assignment to an employee category is based upon job title. Refer to the UW–Madison Employment Categories policy for more information.
  Limited
• Scaled Job: Jobs with the same title may have a different scope of work based on the school, college, or division where the work is performed. Scaling recognizes these differences based on the scope, impact, and complexity of the work performed. A scaled job title has multiple salary grades to align with market data. Learn more about job scaling.
  No
• Salary Range (Annual): Jobs in the same salary grade have similar pay in the market. Each salary grade has a salary range that includes a minimum and a maximum. A job is paid between the minimum and maximum of its salary grade. Learn more about UW's salary structure.
  • 34: $254,893-474,101
• Job Code: A job code identifies jobs in the university’s human resources system.
  • EI014: Chief Diversity Officer (Inst)
  • EI031: Chief Diversity Officer (Inst) (B)
  • EI032: Chief Diversity Officer (Inst) (C)

Knowledge and Skills Learning Resources

Each standard job description is linked to a list of knowledges and skills. Knowledges and skills are optional resources to support employee learning and development. Visit the Knowledges and Skills Learning Resources website to learn more.

• Knowledge: Understanding of concepts.
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  • Administration and Management
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  • Personnel and Human Resources
  • Production and Processing
• Skills: Capabilities and proficiencies developed through training and experience. Learn more about knowledges and skills.
  • Active Listening
  • Coordination
  • Monitoring
  • Reading Comprehension
  • Speaking