Regional Director - Diversity and Inclusion - New Orleans

We've made a lot of progress since opening the doors in 1942, but one thing has never changed - our commitment to serve, heal, lead, educate, and innovate. We believe that every award earned, every record broken and every patient helped is because of the dedicated employees who fill our hallways.

At Ochsner, whether you work with patients every day or support those who do, you are making a difference and that matters. Come make a difference at Ochsner Health and discover your future today!

This job develops a comprehensive and strategic framework to support diversity and inclusion efforts and oversees overall program design of diversity and inclusion programs within assigned region. Develops and implements a full range of initiatives that support ongoing leadership efforts to ensure organization-wide understanding, adoption and adherence to the policy on diversity and inclusion. Engages in continuous, systematic and focused recruitment and retention activities to ensure diverse populations, including enhancement of mentorship and advancement opportunities. Ensures system benchmarks are utilized to define and set thresholds/goals for recruitment and retention programs, including the identification and tracking of metrics for monitoring of programming. Completes long term mapping of existing programming to diversity categories and collects data on program outcome effectiveness, resources, and sustainability.
Education

Required - Master's degree in human resources, business administration, health administration, nursing administration or related field.

Work Experience

Required - 5 years of professional change management experience.

Preferred - 5 years of professional change management experience including 3 years in healthcare.

Knowledge Skills and Abilities (KSAs)

• Effective verbal and written communication skills and ability to present information clearly and professionally.
• Excellent leadership skills and ability to influence cultural change and outcomes in a complex environment.
• Ability to be a seasoned innovator in the field of strategic inclusion, diversity and/or human resources and clinical management.
• Strong knowledge of continual quality and process improvement along with effective program and data management that results in measurable cultural change and adherence to diversity and inclusion standards.
• Strong interpersonal and listening skills and ability to effectively obtain cooperation and support from a broad range of internal and external constituents.
• Proficiency in using computers, software, and web-based applications.

Job Duties

• Articulates definition of diversity standards within context of the system; develops policy and procedures; deploys, oversees and implements strategies to meet diversity standards; and establishes and measures institutional metrics that adhere to diversity standards.
• Identifies opportunities to align diversity and inclusion with organizational strategy and ensures the organization and alignment of programs dedicated to expanding the pipeline of diverse students that enter medical school and the health sciences.
• Builds diversity regional councils, implements regional organizations.
• Ensures full development and implementation of all action planning activities associated with ongoing compliance and adherence to all applicable regulatory requirements and manages the annual diversity and inclusion calendar, including the collection, analysis and review of all diversity and inclusion-based activities within the region on an annual basis.
• Manages all diversity and inclusion data collection and associated maintenance activities, compiles the submission of required annual reports and cultivates HR data.
• Creates a community of inclusion and support; works collaboratively with departmental leadership teams to maintain audit survey, cataloging efforts and activities promoting diversity and inclusion at the local level; and evaluates engagement surveys for the purposes of initiating a continuous environmental scan of diversity and inclusion.
• Oversees the development of training and workshops that enhance the diversity and inclusion, and continuously refines training programs to heighten awareness of and reduce the impact of bias in recruitment, hiring and promotions processes.
• Performs other related duties as required.

The employer is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status.

Physical and Environmental Demands

The physical essential functions of this job include (but are not limited to) the following: Frequently exerting 10 to 20 pounds of force to move objects; occasionally exerting up to 100 pounds of force. Physical demand requirements are in excess of those for sedentary work. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

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