Senior Director of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging

Description

Job Schedule : Full Time

Standard Hours : 40

Job Shift : Shift 1

Shift Details :

Work where every moment matters.

Every day, over 30,000 Hartford HealthCare colleagues come to work with one thing in common : Pride in what we do, knowing every moment matters here.

We invite you to become part of Connecticut’s most comprehensive healthcare network.

Hartford HealthCare’s unified culture enhances access, affordability, equity and excellence. Its care-delivery system- with more than 500 locations serving 185 towns and cities- includes two tertiary-level teaching hospitals, an acute-care community teaching hospital, an acute-care hospital and trauma center, three community hospitals, a behavioral health network, a multispecialty physician group, a clinical care organization, a regional home care system, an array of senior care services, a mobile neighborhood health program and a comprehensive physical therapy and rehabilitation network.

On average, Hartford HealthCare touches more than 23,000 lives every single day. The unique, system-wide Institute Model offers a unified high standard of care in crucial specialties at hospital and ambulatory sites across Connecticut offering unparalleled expertise at the most affordable cost.

The institutes include : Ayer Neuroscience, Behavioral Health, Cancer, Digestive Health, Heart and Vascular, Orthopedics and Tallwood Urology & Kidney.

Position Summary :

The Senior Director will develop, implement and monitor the system-wide diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging strategy that serves the colleagues and clinicians of Hartford HealthCare.

This includes efforts to improve colleague experiences; recruit, retain and develop a diverse and inclusive workforce; and create a comprehensive DEIB learning strategy.

As a leader within the Hartford HealthCare Center for Equity, the Senior Director will create, share and advance best practices that embed equity across the Center’s domains of clinical, colleague, and community.

The Senior Director will collaborate with leaders across the People Function to embed DEIB into all CPO core practices : Human Resources, Talent Acquisition, Benefits, Well-Being, Talent Development and Human Experience as well as work in conjunction with People Function leaders to support the application of DEIB strategy across the HHC enterprise.

Key Accountabilities :

• Serves as key partner to system and equity leaders in planning and strategy development - helps define needs, structures, approaches, and activities / interventions, and identifies resources necessary to support strategy deployment
• Provides strategic direction and integration across a complex and diverse integrated delivery system to strengthen the system’s culture such that all colleagues can do their best work
• Creates and implements learning opportunities and workforce development as it relates to HHC’s equity strategy and competencies in the areas of equity, diversity, inclusion, belonging and anti-racism
• Monitors, evaluates and improves HHC’s capacity to recruit and retain a diverse workforce and partners with and advises the appropriate stakeholders regarding measurable strategies that advance our workforce diversity goals and objectives
• Works as a strategic partner with various business units, groups and colleagues to develop and implement specific programs and initiatives that improve our work culture including talent acquisition, retention, colleague engagement, individual, team and organizational development, performance management, compensation and employee relations
• Supports and develops the Colleague Resource Groups, DEIB Councils and an equity related rewards and recognition program
• Drives and enhances HHC’s capacity to implement change, foster a climate of respect, and raise levels of consciousness surrounding cultural and intersectional identities, as well as implicit bias and racial microaggressions
• Serves as the internal and external representative for the system’s DEIB strategies and priorities

Qualifications

• Master’s degree is required
• Ten plus years of professional and managerial experience in the field of DEIB with a demonstrated track record of developing & leading DEIB strategies & programs in a large, complex organization
• Exceptional practitioner of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging methodology and principles with demonstrated success building a culture of belonging in the workplace
• Practices inclusive leadership; proactively collaborates and empathizes with others
• Willing to sit in discomfort and challenge conventional thinking
• Experience leading and implementing large-scale change management processes, leading with influence, and modeling desired leadership behaviors
• Demonstrated success at setting targets for a large-scale DEIB strategy and measuring progress
• Highly effective written and oral communicator skilled at navigating a complex, matrixed organizational structure
• Proven consensus-builder with a track record of gaining buy-in and working through competing interests
• Exceptional interpersonal skills with the ability to lead and work through others and engage across functional domains and areas of expertise.
• Critical thinker, seasoned problem-solver, flexible and responsive to feedback
• Conducts themselves according to Hartford Healthcare values : Caring, Excellence, Safety, Integrity and Equity

We take great care of careers.

With locations around the state, Hartford HealthCare offers exciting opportunities for career development and growth. Here, you are part of an organization on the cutting edge helping to bring new technologies, breakthrough treatments and community education to countless men, women and children.

We know that a thriving organization starts with thriving employees we provide a competitive benefits program designed to ensure work / life balance.

Every moment matters. And this is your moment .