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Associate Vice Chancellor for Civil Rights Programming and Services Job no: 545990 Work type: Management (MPP) Location: Chancellor's Office Categories: MPP, At-Will, Compliance/Legal, Full Time Are you passionate about civil rights and ready to build upon a strong foundation to drive meaningful change? The California State University, Office of the Chancellor, is seeking an Associate Vice Chancellor for Civil Rights Programming and Services to lead and further develop a recently established structure supporting 23 universities within the nation’s most diverse public university system. This is a unique opportunity to shape systemwide initiatives, enhance compliance and equity efforts, and ensure a culture of fairness, accountability, and inclusion across the CSU. Chancellor's Office Statement Join our team at the California State University, Office of the Chancellor, and make a difference in providing access to higher education. We are currently seeking experienced candidates for the position of Associate Vice Chancellor for Civil Rights Programming and Services. The CSU Chancellor's Office, located on the waterfront adjacent to the Aquarium of the Pacific in downtown Long Beach, is the headquarters for the nation's largest and most diverse higher education system. The CSU Chancellor's Office offers a premium benefit package that includes outstanding vacation, health, and dental plans; a fee waiver education program; membership in the California Public Employees Retirement System (PERS); and 15 paid holidays a year. The CSU’s vision for civil rights is to foster and sustain a welcoming and nurturing campus environment where all community members are safe, supported, and empowered. We accomplish this through ensuring that our processes are not only fair, effective, and thorough, but also honor the humanity of all those involved.   Salary   The anticipated salary hiring range is $240,000 - $294,000 annually, commensurate with qualifications and experience.   Classification   Administrator IV   Position Information   The Associate Vice Chancellor for Civil Rights Programming and Services is responsible for leading a team that provides centralized strategic planning, oversight, support, and resources to the CSU’s university-level Title IX and other civil rights offices. The AVC will also oversee a team that is responsible for CSU’s compliance with laws and policies governing Equal Employment Opportunities and whistleblower (including whistleblower retaliation) complaints including responding to complaints that are investigated by the Chancellor’s Office and providing support, guidance and oversight to appropriate administrators at the CSU’s 23 universities. This position is approved for telecommuting (two days telecommuting, three days in office (in-person)) with onsite work at the main headquarters located in Long Beach, California. Key Responsibilities • Strengthen Systemwide Civil Rights Operations Build upon an established framework to ensure humanity-centered policies and practices, and oversight for campus Civil Rights offices, including case management, training, prevention, and data analysis.   • Provide Strategic Leadership & Best Practices Guide university administrators and collaborate with CSU’s Office of General Counsel to align systemwide policies with federal and state legal requirements, integrating best practices in equity and compliance.   • Support & Develop Systemwide Civil Rights Professionals Lead a team of senior directors and specialists, providing expertise and oversight for Title IX, DHR, and whistleblower programs while ensuring effective campus-level implementation.   • Advance Education, Prevention & Reporting Direct systemwide training, prevention initiatives, and campus climate assessments, and represent CSU to state and federal agencies, media, and stakeholders through reports and public engagement.   • Lead Systemwide Compliance & Oversight Oversee and enhance CSU’s compliance with Title IX, nondiscrimination, and whistleblower laws, ensuring a safe, inclusive, and equitable environment across 23 universities   • Oversee Investigations & Risk Management Ensure effective response and resolution of systemwide whistleblower and civil rights matters, proactively identifying areas of risk and providing strategic guidance to prevent compliance issues. Qualifications This position requires: • Master's degree or equivalent combination of education and work experience. • Minimum of 10 years of related experience, including extensive experience in Title IX, equity, equal opportunity, and civil rights compliance and programming, including education, prevention, training, policy and practice development and administration, supportive measures, accommodations, investigations, and resolutions related to discrimination and harassment. • Demonstrated expertise in implementing compliance requirements through the lens of care and respect.  • Demonstrated experience in interacting effectively with members of the community from diverse backgrounds. • Extensive experience supervising a team of professionals. Preferred Qualifications • Juris Doctor (JD) or other doctoral degree. • Experience in a higher education, judicial, or regulatory compliance setting highly preferred.   Required Knowledge, Skills & Abilities   • Leadership & Strategy – Proven ability to set strategic direction, develop policies, and lead systemwide initiatives in civil rights, Title IX, and compliance. • Legal & Compliance Expertise – Extensive knowledge of federal and California civil rights laws, including Title IX, Title VI, Title VII, ADA, Clery Act, VAWA, and FERPA. • Collaboration & Influence – Strong interpersonal skills to work effectively with executive leadership, legal teams, campus administrators, and external stakeholders. • Team Management – Experience leading and supervising multidisciplinary teams, including regional directors, Title IX Coordinators, DHR Administrators, and investigators. • Communication & Advocacy – Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to train, present, and engage with diverse audiences at all levels. • Problem-Solving & Risk Management – Ability to assess and mitigate risk, oversee investigations, and implement solutions that align with compliance best practices. • Judgment & Integrity – Sound decision-making skills with the ability to exercise independent judgment, uphold confidentiality, and maintain objectivity. • Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion – Demonstrated ability to work effectively with diverse communities and foster an inclusive, equity-driven culture. • Flexibility & Travel – Ability to travel throughout California and work outside of normal business hours when needed. Preferred Knowledge, Skills & Abilities • Expertise in higher education civil rights compliance, including Title IX, discrimination law, and case management systems. • Experience in professional development and training on civil rights and investigations. • Knowledge of data-driven assessment practices, including campus climate surveys and compliance reporting. • Familiarity with CSU’s mission and vision, and experience in a higher education, government compliance, or regulatory setting. Application Period Priority consideration will be given to candidates who apply by March 10, 2025. Applications will be accepted until the job posting is removed. How To Apply Please click "Apply Now" to complete the California State University, Chancellor's Office online employment application and upload your resume and a cover letter highlighting related experience. Equal Employment Opportunity The university is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against persons on the basis of race, religion, color, ancestry, age, disability, genetic information, gender, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, medical condition, National origin, sex, sexual orientation, covered veteran status, or any other protected status. Reasonable accommodations will be provided for qualified applicants with disabilities who self-disclose by contacting the Senior Human Resources Manager at (562) 951-4070. Title IX Please view the Notice of Non-Discrimination on the Basis of Gender or Sex and Contact Information for Title IX Coordinator at: https://www2.calstate.edu/titleix E-Verify This position requires new hire employment verification to be processed through the E-Verify program administered by the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (DHSUSCIS)' in partnership with the Social Security Administration (SSA). If hired, you will be required to furnish proof that you are legally authorized to work in the United States. The CSU Chancellor’s Office is not a sponsoring agency for staff and Management positions (i.e., H1-B VISAS). COVID19 Vaccination Policy Per the CSU COVID-19 Vaccination Policy, it is strongly recommended that all Chancellor’s Office employees who are accessing office and campus facilities follow COVID-19 vaccine recommendations adopted by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) applicable to their age, medical condition, and other relevant indications. Mandated Reporter Per CANRA The person holding this position is considered a 'mandated reporter' under the California Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act and is required to comply with the requirements set forth in CSU Executive Order 1083 as a condition of employment. Conflict of Interest The duties of this position will include participation in decisions that may have a material financial benefit to the incumbent. Therefore, the selected candidate will be required to file Conflict of Interest Form 700: Statement of Economic Interest when they first occupy the position, and on an annual basis, complete ethics training within 6 months of appointment, and attend this training every other year thereafter. CSU Out of State Employment Policy California State University, Office of the Chancellor, as part of the CSU system, is a State of California Employer. As such, the University requires all employees upon date of hire to reside in the State of California. As of January 1, 2022, the CSU Out-of-State Employment Policy prohibits the hiring of employees to perform CSU-related work outside the state of California. Background The Chancellor's Office policy requires that the selected candidate successfully complete a full background check (including a criminal records check) prior to assuming this position. Advertised: February 24, 2025 (1:15 PM) Pacific Standard Time Applications close: Open until filled To apply: https://apptrkr.com/6034095

Performance Play and Design Department: Assistant Teaching Professor of Playable and Participatory Media (Initial Review 10-15-24) Position overview Position title: Assistant Teaching Professor of Playable and Participatory Media Salary range: Commensurate with qualifications and experience; academic year (nine-month basis). A reasonable estimate for the annual salary of this position is $86,600 - $110,000. UC salary scales are publicly available. For more information, see: https://apo.ucsc.edu/compensation/salary-scales/index.html. Percent time: Full-time (100%) Anticipated start: July 1, 2025, with academic year beginning September 2025. Degree must be in hand by June 30, 2025 for employment beginning on July 1, 2025 and beyond. Application Window Open date: August 16, 2024 Next review date: Tuesday, Oct 15, 2024 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time) Apply by this date to ensure full consideration by the committee. Final date: Monday, Jun 30, 2025 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time) Applications will continue to be accepted until this date, but those received after the review date will only be considered if the position has not yet been filled. Position Description The University of California at Santa Cruz (UCSC) invites applications for a practitioner-educator working in playable and participatory media to join the https://theater.ucsc.edu/ as an assistant teaching professor. The chosen candidate will serve both the https://agpm.ucsc.edu/ within the Performance, Play, and Design Department, and UCSC’s interdepartmental https://creative.ucsc.edu/, a new online- and hybrid-modality undergraduate major, which is the first online bachelors degree program in the University of California system. The selected candidate will collaborate with faculty and staff in the Arts Division to develop research-driven curricula for both programs, and will guide student work in both majors. Creative Technologies is an interdisciplinary online UCSC Arts Division program offering a justice-focused digital arts and design curriculum, dedicated to advanced, innovative pedagogy, and the cultivation of web-based and hybrid learning communities. Its course of study emphasizes collaborative creative practices, and digital media as a cultural nexus at which creative workers can nurture equity, power, representation, and imagination. Drawing its faculty from multiple departments within the Arts Division, the online program allows UCSC Arts students to transcend genres and the physical space of its campus, bridging geographically and economically remote communities. The first cohort of Creative Technologies students begins its studies in the Fall of 2024. Performance, Play, and Design is a distinctive interdisciplinary department that blends faculty in theater, performance studies, dance, game design, digital art, music, and interactive media to create a shared environment for creative research at the forefront of performance, play, and design in the fields of games, art, performance and interactive media in the digital and analog realms, with a focus on social justice, impact, and equity. Within this context, faculty continue to grow the Art & Design: Games and Playable Media Program to develop innovative approaches to game design and game creation, to encourage artistic and experimental approaches to play, and to engage with contemporary issues of justice and critical approaches to play and interactivity in order to push the bounds of interactive media. The selected candidate will demonstrate a successful record of college-/university-level teaching in critical fields related to participatory media. The candidate will show significant promise in teaching innovation, and will have experience with hybrid and/or web-based teaching and learning technologies. The ideal candidate will have significant teaching experience in an online format, as well as experience developing and designing courses that explore, leverage, and benefit from innovative platforms for online pedagogy. The ideal candidate will also demonstrate service and leadership experience, and a capacity to mobilize people and resources toward the cultivation of community and excellence in an evolving interdisciplinary institution. Special consideration may be offered for candidates who have teaching experience in one or more of the following areas: creative coding/coding for artists; interactivity; sound and vision technology; computer vision, audition, and other machine sensing; digital environments; physical computing; movement and performance technologies; and DIY tools. We encourage applicants who engage contemporary issues in media, or technologies of transmission and interaction, design justice and art interventions; and who define their creative work broadly and inclusively, across or transcending traditional disciplinary, genre, or media categories, and who have significant experience in modes of production that center approaches that challenge conventional notions of authorship and audience, or are otherwise intensively collaborative. We welcome and encourage national and international applicants working in any of a wide range of creative practices, including one or more of the general areas described above, but not limited to them. This position is based at UC Santa Cruz, and requires regular in-person presence at the campus, excepting in cases of sabbatical leaves and other leaves of absence. The selected candidate will be expected to serve as program chair of one or both programs in the future. The Arts Division at the University of California, Santa Cruz seeks candidates for this position who understand barriers facing traditionally underrepresented, marginalized, and historically excluded groups in the classroom and in higher education; who can contribute to the diversity and excellence of the academic community; and who have engaged in teaching, research, professional and/or public service contributions that promote diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). These contributions may include, but need not be limited to, pedagogical strategies that contribute to the advancement of access and equal opportunity in education and participation in activities that support the recruitment, retention, and success of scholars and students from diverse backgrounds. For more information, see the https://arts.ucsc.edu/page/arts-division-diversity-equity-and-inclusion-dei-statement, https://arts.ucsc.edu/page/performance-play-design-department-diversity-equity-and-inclusion, and https://creative.ucsc.edu/about/justice-focused/ DEI statements. The candidate must provide materials documenting they meet the advertised Basic Qualifications, but we also ask applicants to identify in their application materials if they possess any of the following areas of expertise: • Demonstrated experience in advanced and innovative approaches to teaching, including teaching in course designs aided and enhanced by digital media • Demonstrated experience in, and knowledge of, contemporary arts/design practices • Demonstrated critical engagement with emerging media technologies • Demonstrated experience working with underrepresented students and communities of color in research, teaching, service, advising, and mentoring UC Santa Cruz is a Hispanic-Serving Institution and an Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institution with a high proportion of first-in-family undergraduate students. The campus supports research and teaching with grants awarded by the Committee on Research, the Committee on Teaching, and other groups. In addition to encouraging participation in robust departmental, divisional, and campus mentoring, the campus offers a https://academicaffairs.ucsc.edu/faculty-community-networking-program/ to support its instructors’ development and career advancement. The campus operates on a schedule of three 11-week quarters per academic year. In accordance with workload policy, PPD teaching professor faculty serve as the primary instructor for six 5-unit courses per year, with an additional two course equivalencies (for eight in total) reserved for service. All faculty are required to undertake administrative service for the department, division, and University, in consultation with their unit chair or director. The assistant teaching professor title confers the rights and responsibilities of membership in the Academic Senate and the title is analogous to a tenure-track position. As a condition of employment, the finalist will be required to disclose if they are subject to any final administrative or judicial decisions within the last seven years determining that they committed any misconduct, are currently being investigated for misconduct, or have filed an appeal with a previous employer • “Misconduct” means any violation of the policies governing employee conduct at the applicant’s previous place of employment, including, but not limited to, violations of policies prohibiting sexual harassment, sexual assault, or other forms of harassment or discrimination, as defined by the employer. • https://policy.ucop.edu/doc/4000385/SVSH. • https://policy.ucop.edu/doc/1001004/Anti-Discrimination • https://www.ucop.edu/academic-personnel-programs/_files/apm/apm-035.pdf Performance, Play, and Design Department: https://theater.ucsc.edu/ Creative Technologies Program: https://creative.ucsc.edu/ Art & Design: Games and Playable Media Program: https://agpm.ucsc.edu/ Qualifications Basic qualifications (required at time of application) Applicants must have a terminal degree (MFA or PhD) in an area of expertise related to Playable and Participatory Media (equivalent foreign degrees will be considered); or a demonstrated record of college or university-level teaching experience and at least six years of a creative practice in performance, play, and design. For applicants who do not possess the applicable terminal degree when they submit their applications, they must document in their application materials (e.g., c.v., cover letter, etc.) that their projected date for completing their degree will be on or before June 30, 2025. Application Requirements Document requirements Given our department’s focus on decolonial approaches to teaching, research, and service, our search committee will conduct a preliminary screening of applications solely based on (1) the Teaching Statement and (2) the Statement of Contributions to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. We are looking for candidates who demonstrate effective strategies that support the recruitment and success of underrepresented scholars and students. • Statement of Contributions to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (Preliminary Screening Document) - Statement addressing your understanding of the barriers facing traditionally underrepresented groups and your past and/or future contributions to diversity, equity, and inclusion through teaching and professional or public service. Candidates are urged to https://apo.ucsc.edu/diversity.html before preparing their application. • Statement of Teaching (Preliminary Screening Document) • Curriculum Vitae - Your most recently updated C.V. • Cover Letter - Briefly summarize your qualifications and interest in the position. • Student Evaluations of Teaching (Set 1 of 3 required) - Reviewers of these evaluations are aware that systematic biases unfavorable to protected demographics are known to impact student evaluations of teaching. Our equity-focused assessment makes every effort to account for biases of that kind. • Student Evaluations of Teaching (Set 2 of 3 required) - Reviewers of these evaluations are aware that systematic biases unfavorable to protected demographics are known to impact student evaluations of teaching. Our equity-focused assessment makes every effort to account for biases of that kind. • Student Evaluations of Teaching (Set 3 of 3 required) - Reviewers of these evaluations are aware that systematic biases unfavorable to protected demographics are known to impact student evaluations of teaching. Our equity-focused assessment makes every effort to account for biases of that kind. • Student Evaluations of Teaching - Reviewers of these evaluations are aware that systematic biases unfavorable to protected demographics are known to impact student evaluations of teaching. Our equity-focused assessment makes every effort to account for biases of that kind. (Optional) • Student Evaluations of Teaching - Reviewers of these evaluations are aware that systematic biases unfavorable to protected demographics are known to impact student evaluations of teaching. Our equity-focused assessment makes every effort to account for biases of that kind. (Optional) • Portfolio of Creative Work, including descriptions of included work - Portfolio must be submitted in PDF format, please include descriptions of work. • Sample Course Material - Submit a sample document such as a course syllabus, sample assignment, course interface, etc. • Sample Course Material - Submit a sample document such as a course syllabus, sample assignment, course interface, etc. (Optional) • Sample Course Material - Submit a sample document such as a course syllabus, sample assignment, course interface, etc. (Optional) • Writing Sample (Optional) • Examples of Student Work - Example of student work must be submitted in PDF format. The PDF may include a variety of links, texts, or sample images documenting student work. (Optional) Reference requirements • 3-5 required (contact information only) To acknowledge and reduce the labor involved in acquiring letters of recommendation, the hiring unit will request confidential letters* from only the references of those applicants who are under serious consideration. Applicants are advised to speak to potential references in anticipation of a future letter submission request and to advise them that they will need to submit their confidential letters within two weeks of the submission request. Applicants must provide the names and contact information of their references (a minimum of three references is required and a maximum of five will be permitted). Note that your references, or dossier service, will submit their confidential letters directly to the UC Recruit System. *All letters will be treated as confidential per University of California policy and California state law. For any reference letter provided via a third party (i.e., dossier service, career center), direct the author to UCSC’s confidentiality statement at http://apo.ucsc.edu/confstm.htm Apply link: https://apptrkr.com/5561195 Help contact: espitz@ucsc.edu About UC Santa Cruz The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, or protected veteran status. UC Santa Cruz is committed to excellence through diversity and strives to establish a climate that welcomes, celebrates, and promotes respect for the contributions of all students and employees. 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