| This is a senior management position on the Member & Component Services team, reporting to the Senior Vice President, Member & Component Services, with strategic responsibility to develop, implement and monitor initiatives designed to support AIA's equity, diversity & inclusion (EDI), emerging professionals, academic engagement and K-12 initiatives as aligned with AIA's Strategic Portfolio under Workforce. The emerging professionals team focuses on the concerns of students, interns and recently licensed architects through initiatives with the National Associates Committee, Young Architects Forum and the American Institute of Architecture Students. The Equity in Architecture team focuses on the practices of equity within workplace culture and multiculturalism. K-12 Education initiatives provide resources to components, members and teachers to achieve the goal of creating greater architecture exposure to young people. The Academic Engagement team creates opportunities for collaboration between the academy and AIA, facilitates architectural research synergies between practitioners and academics and makes regular visits to schools of architecture. Job Duties: Lead initiatives that collaborate with components, collaterals, academic, non-profit organizations and architectural firms for increased equity, diversity and inclusiveness among firms, components and AIA members. Provides strategic direction to staff and appropriate member groups to develop and implement AIA programming to promote equity, diversity and inclusion and to promote opportunities for underrepresented members. Lead programs to position AIA as the leading source for information regarding career support and development for emerging professionals. Oversees & provides strategic direction to staff and appropriate member groups to design and implement career advancement paths that offer increased resources and professional development opportunities for young professionals throughout AIA. Positions the team as a bridge between the academy and AIA members in the early stages of their careers, by creating strategies for building relationships with schools of architecture, community colleges and K-12. Serve as subject matter expert on educating and engaging young professionals, especially those from diverse backgrounds and perspectives, and promote equity, diversity and inclusion as fundamental to institutional excellence. Provides leadership for identifying and assessing unmet needs of various member groups and aligns efforts to address them while guiding on-going evaluation and updating of plans. Establishes priorities and workflow within the team including, but not limited to, equity, diversity and inclusion, emerging professionals, academy issues and programs working with the AIA Equity and the Future of Architecture Committee, National Associates Committee and the Young Architects Forum. Frequent contacts: - Vice President, Member & Component Services
- CEO/EVP and AIA Senior Leadership Team
- AIA Board of Directors
- AIA Strategic Council
- ACSA, AIAS, NCARB, NAAB, NOMA, AACC, and CCCAP representatives
- AIA Equity & the Future of Architecture Committee
- Young Architects Forum
- National Associates Committees
- Educators and academic staff
- AIA staff
- CACE (Council of Architectural Component Executives)
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