Vice President, Policy And Research

EQiSpace - Vice President —Policy and Research

Join Our Roster

EQiSpace is currently building a multiracial roster of Senior Recruiters and VPs in the areas of Policy, Communications (position filled), Finance, Legal, and Antiracism Standards.

When the roster is set, EQiSpace will market our team, our Racial Equity HR & Racial Equity Audit services, and our advocacy impact to potential clients and investors.Once we secure client contracts, the team gets down to work.

Racial Equity Work is Hard

Racial equity work isn’t for the meek.It will not be easy.It will be hard.

While EQiSpace places nonwhite and white professionals with varied work experiences, a key focus is the placement of professionals who have experienced career limiting racism or harassment, which includes people professionally blacklisted for standing-up for their human dignity on-the-job.

Placing these professionals requires a deeper understanding of how systemic racism, targeted harassment, and professional blacklisting have impacted their lives, which includes financial hardship, family breakdown, damaged career path, career gaps, and a lack of professional references.

At EQiSpace we view standing up to workplace racism and harassment as a strength, not a weakness.We don’t punish professionals for taking a stand; we respect them for trying to make their workplaces better, more dignified places to work.

There are few if any staffing agencies in Canada, the US, or elsewhere tackling the employment barriers faced by highly skilled people professionally blacklisted for standing up to harassment and discrimination.

Our job is to help them find a dignified, respectful, and professional place to work – together with employers and other professionals who want to work in antiracist, antiharassment spaces – by building racially equitable workplaces from the ground-up.

What You Bring

We’re looking for seasoned Senior Recruiters and VP types ready to hit the ground running and produce results through our Racial Equity HR and Racial Equity Audit services, and our racial equity advocacy work.

You have a passion for EQiSpace’s racial equity mission, are committed to antiracism and anti-harassment principles, and agree to work with values, ethics, and integrity.

Whether you are nonwhite or white, if you’ve got the background, skills, and experience to help EQiSpace deliver, and if you’ve been on the receiving end of career limiting or career ending racism and / or harassment, then we want to speak with you.We know that professionals on the receiving end of racism and harassment are best qualified to propose workplace racial equity solutions, not the people who targeted them.

With a lean roster in FY 1 of operations, you will work hands-on to deliver our racial equity services and advocacy.As EQiSpace expands, you will, in your role as a Senior Recruiter or VP, be responsible for leading and managing teams, and investing in the professional development of team members.

What We Propose to Offer

If contracts are secured according to projections, we propose to offer the following salary and benefits in FY1:

- Annual base salary of $200,000US

- Profit sharing bonuses

- Business Class Travel

- Comprehensive health and dental package

- Unlimited Paid Time Off (PTO), subject to performance agreements

- Flexible work schedule

- Antiracist, anti-harassment workplace culture

Racial Equity Starts at Home

Racial equity starts at home, and EQiSpace’s greatest asset is our people.

To place highly skilled top talent and help employers build racially equitable workplaces, we need to invest equitably in the EQiSpace team.Our salary structure and benefits reflect the immense value that we bring to employers and skilled professionals.Nonwhite professionals have, historically, been actively excluded from workplaces and well-paying professions.

Therefore, employers have a moral obligation to do better, and as an employer, EQiSpace will pay team members racially equitable salaries at or above industry norms.This strategy helps us to attract and retain top talent.

:EQiSpace - Vice President —Policy and Research

EQiSpace— Company Mission

• EQISpace is a professional talent acquisition and placement firm committed to workplace racial equity at all levels.We do“HR”differently.Our mission is to create opportunity, close racial wage gaps, and build wealth for nonwhite people while increasing productivity, innovation, and profitability for racial equity employers.We do this by helping the private, public, and NGO sectors build racially equitable workplaces — with an authentic antiracist, anti-oppression and anti-harassment culture —from the ground-up.

Summary

• Reporting to the President and serving as an integral member of the senior management team, the VP Policy and Research (VP Policy) will expand EQiSpace’s internal policy and research capacity, identify emerging areas of concern (such as unique or targeted forms of anti-Indigenous, anti-Black, and anti-Muslim workplace discrimination), provide analysis, and propose policy solutions.

• The VP Policy will assume the following roles: 1) Provide in-house policy and research support to EQiSpace’s recruitment and racial equity audit business lines; 2) Lead the development, execution, and evaluation of EQiSpace’s policy, research, and analysis on workplace racial equity; 3) Identify and support measures that promote racial equity and close racial wage gaps, such as policy, program,legislative,and regulatory initiatives; 4) Act as an ambassador for EQiSpace, building and maintainingpolicy and research relationships with the business, academia, political and public policy communities; and 5) Recruit, lead and mentor research and policy analystsas EQiSpace expands.

Responsibilities

In-House Policy and Research

•Conduct labour market, racial equity, and racial justice policy and research ni support of our recruitment and racial equity audit business lines.

Policy, Research, and Analysis on Racial Equity and Racial Wage Gaps

•Lead the development of policy and research on racial equity and racial wage gaps, develop an annual research plan, and, in collaboration with the senior management team,explore the potential for social enterprise partnerships to increase racial equity and close racial wage gaps.

•Monitor news media and government sources for policies, programs, proposed regulations and legislation that impact racial equity and racial wage gaps.

•Identify, promote, and support initiatives that produce tangible racial equity outcomes.

•Analyze growing industries and sectors — such as climate risk, emission reduction,renewable energy, and environmental sustainability — to identify workforce racial equity gaps and provide policy recommendations to close them.

Racial Equity Audits

•Assist the VP Audit and Finance with Racial Equity Audits (REAs)— independent, objective and comprehensive analyses of policies and practices that reduce systemic racism within organizations and in their professional interactions with clients, customers, suppliers and other stakeholders.

Policy and Research Relationships

•Engage with stakeholders in government, the private sector, the nonprofit sector, academia and the media to support and inform EQiSpace’s policy and research program.

•Collaborate with senior managers to ensure continuity with overall EQiSpace goals and strategies, as well as current public policy issues.

•Collaborate with senior managers to develop and implement strategies to secure resources togrow policyand research capacity and partnerships.

Team Development/Management

•As EQiSpace expands, recruit and lead high calibre policy and research analysts tosupport the development and execution of policy and research priorities and strategies.

•Promote a culture of high performance and continuous improvement that values learning and a commitment to racial equity.

•Mentor and develop team members using a supportive and collaborative approach.

•Assist EQiSpace senior management and talent acquisition specialists with candidate selection and placement.

Qualifications

•A passion for EQiSpace’s mission and a commitment to racial equity, antiracism and anti-harassment principles.

•Bachelor's degree in the social sciences or related discipline.Minimum 15 years experience in policy or social advocacy, with demonstrated skill and comfort in proactively building relationships with clients, the public, and public and private sector organizations.

•Government relations experience coupled with a strong understanding of federal government processes and institutions.

•An understanding of community economic development, social economy, social enterprise, social innovation and social finance in Canada and the policy and program areas most relevant to community-based stakeholders working to improve racial equity and close racial wage gaps.

•Act as a visible change agent and transformational leader on racial equity in the policy and research community.

•Strong thought leadership and exceptional written, oral, interpersonal, and presentation skills; ability to communicate complex issues to EQiSpace clients, team members, senior management, Board of Directors and other stakeholders.

•Extensive successful writing and editing experience with a variety of print and online communications media.

•Excellent judgment and creative problem solving skills, including negotiation and conflict resolution skills.

•Superior management skills; ability to influence and engage direct and indirect reports and peers.

•Self-reliant, good problem solver, results oriented, with the ability to make decisions in a changing environment and anticipate future needs.