Director - Diversity and Inclusion - Thrivent Financial - Minneapolis

Job description
Are you passionate about building cultural competency and pursuing a more diverse workforce and customer base?
Are you excited to work in the only not-for-profit Fortune 500 organization?
Are you up for the challenge of driving change to achieve Diversity and Inclusion goals?
Thrivent is at an exciting historical inflection point – after effectively serving Lutherans for over 100 years our members recently voted to extend our common bond to all Christians. Our CEO has personally chartered a new initiative to pursue more diverse employees and customers. The effort is currently focused on building the organization’s cultural competence. We are looking for a passionate leader to build on this base and help us create permanent infrastructure and strategies to succeed in this exciting effort.
What you get to do:
Lead a focused team to implement existing cultural competency plans across corporate staff and a nationally distributed salesforce

Work directly with our CEO and other executive leaders to develop their individual skillsets and capabilities
Design and implement organization-wide infrastructure to support diversity and inclusion (e.g. ERGs, Councils, etc.)
Develop enterprise wide metrics to track progress
Work directly with key business leaders to develop strategies for pursuing Christian members from a wide variety of communities
Work directly with senior leaders across the organization, especially sales, to develop and implement candidate attraction strategies

Traits we value:
Tenacity – You don’t give up and have proven track record of success in difficult circumstances
Patience – You have the ability to plan for the long term and don’t get frustrated when things take longer than you think they should
Personable – You have the ability to develop relationships with senior leaders
Passion for service - You are active and engaged in the community and are passionate about making a difference in the lives of others
Self-Motivation – You set goals and consistently achieve them!
Curiosity - You ask the right questions (even when they are tough!) in ways that yields the best solutions
Leadership – You have the ability to move into a CDO role within 2 – 4 years

What we want from you:
Energy and enthusiasm for taking on significant challenges; success managing through challenging and/or complex cultural situations
3+ years of successful diversity and/or inclusion work for a Fortune 500 corporation, building teams and leading both strategy and implementation
Deep knowledge of cultural competence, building tools and techniques
Success managing complex D&I strategic programs and initiatives within business marketplace, workplace, workforce and community
Profound understanding of broad external factors that impact external and internal D&I issues, practices and strategy
Experience leveraging appropriate external partners, programs and experts to further D&I mission and strategy
Demonstrated ability to take initiative and self-manage complex programs with minimal direction and oversight
Stellar interpersonal communications, collaboration and relationship building skills
Top-notch planning/organizing skills
Exceptional critical thinking and problem solving skills
Expert prioritization and multi-tasking in a high volume, fast paced environment
Comfort with ambiguity

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