JOB ORGANIZATION Core competency Equity mindset Overall definition

JOB & ORGANIZATION Core competency: Equity mindset Overall definition: Understands and is committed to goals of equity; consistently brings an equity mindset to the organization’s work and workplace Early stage Intermediate Advanced Awareness of equity issues • Awareness of inequities that exist at multiple levels+ (personal, interpersonal, organizational, and systemic) • Is aware that there are linkages • Familiar with potential avenues for between systems that perpetuate addressing structural inequities inequity (e. g. , racial inequity, socio. Ability to actively combat inequities economic inequity); understands how • Can engage in dialogues about these systems impact the potential options to address organization's work; is aware of the inequities and tradeoffs between concept of intersectionality++ options Ability to actively combat inequities • Able to sustain commitment to the • Understands that the organization work in some way despite and programs may need to change in overwhelming nature of the problem order to achieve goals around equity • Embraces and leads changes that may • Can articulate logic chain behind need to occur to address equity specific linkages between systems; Has intuitive understanding of how the mechanisms of structural inequity operate and are sustained over time • Is able to use appropriate vocabulary to describe inequities Awareness of equity issues + Phyllis Jones, Camara. “Levels of Racism: A Theoretical Framework and a Gardener’s Tale. ” 2000. ++Intersectionality is defined in Merriam-Webster as “The complex, cumulative manner in which the effects of different forms of discrimination combine, overlap, or intersect. ” 1