DEI Learning and Development Specialist

**Due to COVID-19 this role is currently working primarily remotely. Once FareStart’s office fully reopens, this role will have regular onsite responsibilities in downtown Seattle. **

FareStart is a nonprofit organization in Seattle, Washington that transforms lives, disrupts poverty, and nourishes communities through food, life skills, and job training. We help people overcome employment barriers by teaching them work and life skills they need to succeed in the food-based jobs — and life.

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis, FareStart has provided millions of meals to organizations across the Seattle area that serve youth, adults, and families who are low income or experiencing food insecurity.

As the DEI Learning and Development specialist you will design and implement a foundational DEI learning path for FareStart employees and provide counsel and subject matter expertise to the organization’s human resources and other learning professionals across the organization.  This role is an opportunity to advance FareStart’s antiracist commitment by building the foundational knowledge and capacity of staff to practice diversity, equity inclusion, and anti-racism in their roles, the workplace, and within their teams.

Our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion learning approach include:

• Centering those most impacted by systems of oppression by advocating, prioritizing, empowering, including, and amplifying our voices wherever possible.
• Meeting learners where they are no matter where they are in their journey of DEI awareness and what their learning needs may be.
• Amplifying and celebrating our (co)liberation, interconnectedness, and mutual love of food as we work towards equity, inclusion, justice, and anti-racism within our organization and in our communities.
• Transformative, adult education is how we do ‘learning’ because we believe adults learn best through experience, practice, critical thinking, and connection.

FareStart is at the front end of its organizational DEI and anti-racist journey. Our aspirational vision for DEI learning and development in concert with concurrent org-wide DEI and anti-racist strategies is to achieve and sustain the following learning outcomes:

• Every employee can articulate how their liberation is tied with the liberation of others.
• Every employee can articulate how and why diversity, equity, inclusion, and anti-racism are a necessary part of our mission, workplace culture, and lines of business.
• Every employee can name two ways to minimize implicit bias in decision-making.
• Every employee can name two ways they practice inclusion in their teams.
• Every employee can speak to why we lead equity work with racial equity and why intersectionality is important to this work.

The DEI Learning and Development Specialist reports to the Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and is responsible for the following:

• Design DEI learning experiences using a variety of adult learning methods and technology including e-learning, microlearning, blended learning, instructor-led virtual learning, and instructor-led classroom learning. The following priority learning needs have been identified but are not limited to DEI 101, minimizing implicit bias, DEI best practices, and why we lead with racial equity in DEI.
• Deliver learning experiences to our diverse employee groups in a variety of training environments to include in-person and virtual learning. Facilitation of DEI topics and group conversations. Leveraging and adapting existing learning tools and resources to meet diverse learning needs.
• Own and manage Learning Management System for 200 participants including management of rise.com LMS system and accompanying e-learning design software (articulate360), updating learning offerings, and tracking and reporting on learning and participant outcomes.
• Provide consultation on the application of a racial equity lens to learning and development needs and solutions as they are brought to or arise within the DEI and HR team.
• Engage DEI leaders, HR, and learning professionals across the organization to identify learning needs and solutions rooted in employee voice and that support strategic and transformative organizational change work at FareStart.

All qualified applicants, including Black, Indigenous and People of Color, women, Trans, LGBTQ, protected veterans, and individuals with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply.

Minimum Qualifications

• Demonstrated competency in applying a racial equity lens to learning solutions.
• Three or more years’ experience in learning and development or similar degree, certification, or advanced training in adult education or adult learning.
• Capacity to design and develop e-learning using e-learning creation software
• Three or more years in facilitating equity, inclusion, and/or social justice learning topics and discussions including effectively navigating common resistance to these topics.
• Proven confidence in articulating how your identities are impacted by and intersect with systems of oppression and why your liberation is tied with the liberation of others.
• Proven experience in effectively communicating information to a multidisciplinary audience
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects with minimal supervision.

Preferred Qualifications

• Proficiency in using articulate360 and/or Rise.com applications.
• Application of liberatory, transformative, popular education, and/or experiential adult learning frameworks to learning solutions.
• Capacity to be strategically but authentically vulnerable in front of an audience to build trust and role model DEI practice for learners.
• Demonstrated skill in convening stakeholders and moving them towards the identification of learning solutions.

COVID-19 CONSIDERATION: FareStart requires that all employees be fully vaccinated against COVID-19.

• Candidates are required to submit a curricula sample demonstrating a capacity to apply a racial equity lens to an HR topic or DEI topic.

• Competitive pay based on experience and qualifications
• Paid time-off (3 weeks in the first year of employment) and paid holidays
• 401(k) savings plan
• Health, disability, and life insurance
• Free ORCA pass
• Free Shift Meal

Why Should You Apply?

• Be part of our mission to disrupt poverty.
• Join a supportive, respectful, and celebratory community among our staff, students, board, and volunteers
• Organizational commitment to a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace
• FareStart encourages the personal and professional growth of its employees

For information on FareStart, including more information on employee benefits and our company culture, visit our website at: www.farestart.org/about

Commitment to Diversity and Inclusivity:

FareStart is committed to becoming a fully inclusive, antiracist, diverse organization. To fulfill our mission, vision, and values we are seeking candidates who demonstrate shared values of diversity, equity, inclusion, and antiracism.

Our Commitment To Anti-Racism

FareStart defines antiracism as the clear acknowledgment that racism permeates organizations, communities, and industries, including our own. We recognize that we have a duty to be vigilant in addressing and confronting racism in how we make decisions, show up in our communities, build business practices and policies, and engage in intentional partnerships and philanthropic endeavors to fulfill our mission and vision.

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