Position Information

NY HELPNo

AgencyPeople With Developmental Disabilities, Office for

TitleEqual Opportunity Specialist 3

Occupational CategoryAdministrative or General Management

Salary Grade661

Bargaining UnitM/C - Managerial/Confidential (Unrepresented)

Salary RangeFrom $90931 to $114940 Annually

Employment Type Full-Time

Appointment Type Contingent Permanent

Jurisdictional Class Non-competitive Class

Travel Percentage 0%

Schedule

Workweek Mon-Fri

Hours Per Week 37.5

Workday

From 9 AM

To 5 PM

Flextime allowed? No

Mandatory overtime? No

Compressed workweek allowed? No

Telecommuting allowed? Yes

Location

County New York

Street Address 25 Beaver Street

City New York

StateNY

Zip Code10004

Job Specifics

Duties Description The New York State Office of People With Developmental Disabilities (NYS OPWDD) has approximately 18,000 employees across 1,000+ locations and provides services to more than 120,000 people with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities. OPWDD recently created the Executive Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) with the charge to infuse DEI approaches, objectives, and methodologies through different key business functions and executive ranks in OPWDD.

The DEI Office oversees a portfolio of 100 projects, a strategic plan for cultural competence, linguistic competence, and equity, and oversees statewide functions. These functions include language access; community engagement; policy audits; training and professional development; annual reporting to Department of Civil Service's Office of Diversity and Inclusion Management; annual climate surveys; data collection and reporting for Gender X, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, Asian American and Pacific Islander Disaggregated identities; statewide DEI committees, and much more.

The Equal Opportunity Specialist 3 will oversee the language access unit, carrying out the following duties and responsibilities:
·Manage the language access unit's portfolio projects throughout the lifecycle of the project while maintaining all ongoing language access operations.
·Contract management of OPWDD's suite of language access vendors.
·Data management of language access requests and reporting to the NYS Office of General Services' Office of Language Access.
·Design and deliver a training program for OPWDD staff and teams on language access services.
·Co-author and implement agency language access plan and other protocols for language access, cultural competence, and linguistic competence.
·Outline team member responsibilities while supervising and supporting language access staff to be successful in their roles.
·Support OPWDD's network of language access liaisons.
·Draft and oversee agency-wide communication and messaging about language access, including internal and external messaging, website information, email correspondence, etc.
·Oversee the management of language access shared mailboxes.
·Develop detailed scope statements, document project requirements, develop project schedules, and coordinate project activities, when applicable.
·Present project plans and resource needs as well as identify risks and potential solutions to the Chief Diversity Officer.
·Design and implement quality metrics to analyze and monitor project performance and sustain continual improvement across OPWDD.
·Coordinate multiple complex DEI research projects or components of projects.
·Manage, edit, and track applicable deliverables and work products.
·Maintain project resource libraries and institutional memory for all projects.
·Coordinate, facilitate, and participate in meetings with internal and external partners; develop content.
·Effectively communicate with team members, staff and teams across the agency, external partners, and all project partners.

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Minimum Qualifications Non-competitive: eight years of the experience in equal opportunity, diversity and inclusion, or human rights. At least one year of the experience must have been at a supervisory level; OR one year of State service in an equal opportunity, diversity and inclusion, minority business, employment compliance, human resources, or training position allocated at or above Grade 23.

Qualifying experience includes working with organizations concerned with equal opportunity, diversity and inclusion, civil rights, minority business development, or similar programs; or in recruiting, training, and upgrading the educational and job qualifications of protected class members.

Substitutions: associate’s degree may substitute for two years of the nonsupervisory experience; bachelor’s degree for four years; and J.D. or master’s degree for five years.

Preferred Qualifications:
- Passion for systems change and diversity, equity, and inclusion for people with developmental disabilities and other marginalized identities.
- A willingness to learn and grow as a manager, coworker, and leader.
- Experience with all Microsoft Office products including Excel, Word, Teams, and Power Point.
- Strong organization, collaboration, and facilitation skills.

Additional Comments • The Office for People With Developmental Disabilities (OPWDD) and it's Division of Executive Office is committed to creating and sustaining a culture of inclusion. We believe that we are most effective in managing and improving our service system with a diverse team of employees. With such a large workforce, we rely on the collective individual differences, life experiences, knowledge, self-expression, ideas and talent that our employees bring to their work. This speaks to our culture, and is a key part of our successes. As we continuously recruit people for our team, we welcome the unique contributions that applicants bring in terms of their education, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veteran’s status, color, religion, disability, sexual orientation and beliefs.
• Preference will be given to OPWDD employees impacted by closures. If you are being impacted by closure, please indicate this on your resume/cover letter.
• In order to be eligible for appointment and to maintain employment, you cannot be listed as an excluded individual or entity on any of the Federal and/or State Medicaid and Medicare exclusion lists (or excluded from any other Federal or Federally assisted program). If you are appointed and subsequently listed as an excluded individual or entity on any of these lists (or excluded from any other Federal or Federally assisted program), you may be terminated from your employment.
• OPWDD is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.
• If an employee or job applicant believes that they need a reasonable accommodation, they should contact the Reasonable Accommodation Unit at (518) 486-7222 or email accommodationrequests@opwdd.ny.gov to obtain information and RA forms.

Some positions may require additional credentials or a background check to verify your identity.

Contact Information

Name Jenna Beck

Telephone 518-473-4785

Fax 518-474-9902

Email Address MainOffice.Careers@opwdd.ny.gov

Address

Street 44 Holland Avenue

City Albany

State NY

Zip Code 12229

 

Notes on ApplyingPlease submit a cover letter and resume as an attached PDF or Word document by 2/5/25. Please reference the EOA #2025-019 in all correspondence.