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Job Requisition ID:
2026-03382
Time Type:
Full time
Employee Group:
Staff
Job Category:
Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
Employment Type:
Permanent
Department:
Associate Vice-President, Equity Diversity, Inclusion and Anti-Racism - Institutional Priorities
Hiring Range:
$104,002.41 - $130,003.01
Posting Information:
This posting is for an existing vacancy.
The internal posting deadline for this position is Thursday, October 29, 2026 at 11:59PM.
Job Description:
Primary Purpose
This senior level position will provide strategic leadership and will work with internal and external university communities to lead, articulate and effect change in equity and anti-racism through competency and capacity building and stakeholder engagement. The overall purpose is to challenge existing structures to facilitate cultural change through transformative justice.
Key Accountabilities
- Leads the strategic direction of Education and Outreach portfolio within the EDI-RO for the University of Waterloo community (main campus, satellite campuses).
- Develops, leads, and provides strategic direction and project management oversight of the Education & Outreach Unit (EOU) to deliver key policies and strategic initiatives (in consultation with the AVP, EDI-R).
- Leads and represents the EDI-RO’s EOU in any discussions on competency and capacity building, or education related to equity and anti-racism and transformative change on campus and beyond.
- Identifies new and significant opportunities for leadership, including educating the research
- community and pursuing potential new collaborations.
- Leads, manages, motivates, and coach staff.
- Hires, manages, and deploys staff to meet and exceed EDI-R competency and capacity goals and objectives.
- Coaches, mentors, and manages a team of experienced professional equity and anti-racism educator's/adult facilitators.
- Conducts and reviews Annual Performance Plans and individual work plans with direct reports, and ensures adherence to annual performance planning and review processes within the EDI-RO.
- Facilitates the creation, development, and review of equity and anti-racism educational content through anti-oppressive pedagogies.
- Conducts research of a superior quality on improving equity and anti-racism at the University of Waterloo.
- Evaluates current policies, practices and programs to make recommendations about best or promising practices.
- Develops educational programs and practical training on equity for the university community.
- Oversees the monitoring, analysis, and research trends and complex issues in equity and anti-racism.
- Oversees the development of educational content for the EDI-RO
- Provides academic and professional resources (e.g., Briefing Notes) that support the policy directions and strategic priorities of the EDI-RO.
- Shares and delivers equity and anti-racism competency and capacity building sessions to senior leaders (e.g., Exec Council, Board of Governors, Senate, Deans Council, etc.)
- Supports the implementation of the University’s Cross Institutional Priorities (CIP).
- Leads and maintains quality assurance of the institution’s Program Area Leads (PALs) CIP.
- Develops and directs critical relationships with internal and external community members to increase the University’s equity and anti-racism impact domestically and internationally.
- Develops and directs critical relationships with faculty to advance equity and anti-racism competency and capacity building strategic goals.
Required Qualifications
Education
- PhD in a relevant discipline preferred.
Experience
- Significant knowledge of building and leading complex teams of intersecting identities within oppressive institutional environments
- Expert knowledge in teaching, adult facilitation, and competency and capacity building in an institutional context
- Demonstrated research portfolio in equity and anti-racism (or a related discipline)
- Demonstrated experience of community engagement and working with racialized and marginalized communities
- Demonstrated ability to code-switch, code-mesh, and engage with hierarchal and lateral systems of oppression
- Demonstrated ability to engage with internal and external community competing interests
- Demonstrated understanding of the historical, social, economic, legal, and political context underlying race, racism, and systemic anti-racism movements in Ontario
- Significant experience working with stakeholders with competing interest and limited knowledge/expertise in anti-racism
- Experience developing and implementing strategic plans and institutional-wide programs
- Experience in managing institutional risks through corporate risk registers
- Experience effecting organizational change, including policy, procedural, practical, and behavioral change
- Experience implementing and enforcing corporate anti-racism policies
- Proven ability in project management and leading teams/employees
- Experience working on organization-wide committees and working collaboratively with multiple stakeholders
- Proven ability to advance policies, programs, and practices with the framework of anti-racism
- Experience, and demonstrated ability to build partnerships, collaborate, and consult meaningfully with equity seeking groups
- Experience in developing anti-racism related education, policies, and programming.
- Experience developing and managing corporate budgets
Knowledge/Skills/Abilities
- Expert-level political acuity and strategic thinking skills
- Expert-level facilitation skills
- Ability to teach, coach, and mentor staff, students, and faculty
- Demonstrated strong understanding of equity, intersectionality, Anti-racism, decolonization, inclusion, anti-oppression, the Ontario Human Rights Code, the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, the Anti-Racism Act (as well as other relevant legislation), and the application of those terms, frameworks and legislations in an institutional context
- The professional confidence and communication skills to effectively engage community members on what can often be contentious or delicate issues
- Excellent organizational and project management skills
- Ability to work on confidential and sensitive matters with tact and discretion
- A high level of interpersonal skills and the capacity to listen effectively and sensitively to a broad range of diverse stakeholders, including students, faculty, and staff members
- Advanced experience with Microsoft Office programs, SharePoint, Adobe Acrobat Professional, and/or other data content management systems, quantitative and qualitative research design, and methodologies.
- We encourage the applications from candidates who have been historically disadvantaged and marginalized, including applicants who identify as First Nations, Métis, and/or Inuit, Black, racialized, a person with a disability, women and/or 2SLGBTQ+.
Equity Statement
The University of Waterloo acknowledges that much of our work takes place on the traditional territory of the Neutral, Anishinaabeg, and Haudenosaunee peoples. Our main campus is situated on the Haldimand Tract, the land granted to the Six Nations that includes six miles on each side of the Grand River. Our active work toward reconciliation takes place across our campuses through research, learning, teaching, and community building, and is coordinated within the Office of Indigenous Relations.
The University values the diverse and intersectional identities of its students, faculty, and staff. The University regards equity and diversity as an integral part of academic excellence and is committed to accessibility for all employees. The University of Waterloo seeks applicants who embrace our values of equity, anti-racism and inclusion. As such, we encourage applications from candidates who have been historically disadvantaged and marginalized, including applicants who identify as First Nations, Métis and/or Inuk (Inuit), Black, racialized, a person with a disability, women and/or 2SLGBTQ+.
Positions are open to qualified candidates who are legally entitled to work in Canada.
The University of Waterloo is committed to accessibility for persons with disabilities. If you have any application, interview, or workplace accommodation requests, please contact Human Resources at hrhelp@uwaterloo.ca or 519-888-4567, ext. 45935.
