Description
Develops, implements, and monitors programs promoting and ensuring compliance with affirmative action and equal opportunity goals and objectives for academic and non-academic staff. Maintains liaison relationship with protected class interest groups on and off campus. Supervises staff in the identification and resolution of discrimination and sexual harassment complaints. This is the top affirmative action/diversity position. Education and Experience: Bachelor degree and 7 or more years of related experience. The primary duty of employees in this classification is the management of a customarily recognized department or subdivision, including the supervision of three or more full-time equivalent employees every week. Direction is over a permanent status-continuing function, not a collection of employees assigned to complete a project. Management duties include interviewing, selecting and training of employees; setting and adjusting their rates of pay and hours of work; planning and directing their work; appraising their productivity and efficiency for the purpose of recommending promotions or other changes in their status; handling their complaints and grievances and disciplining them when necessary. Management responsibilities include the authority to hire, fire, or promote assigned employees or make recommendations that are given particular weight. Employees have impact on budgeting, controlling costs, planning, scheduling, and procedural change. Under FLSA, incumbents in this position meet the criteria for exempt status.