What are the responsibilities and job description for the DEI Manager position at DLR Group?
DLR Group is an integrated design firm with a promise to elevate the human experience through design. This fuels the work we do around the world and inspires our mission to improve the lives of our clients, our communities, and our planet. If this sparks your interest, you're in the right place.
Our team has an opening for a dynamic and creative DEI Manager . We operate within a hybrid work model, supporting flexibility between office time and work from home. Considering this model, this role could be based in the following cities :
- Chicago
- Denver
- Houston
- Kansas City
- Orlando
- Seattle
- Washington, DC
About Equity at DLR Group
At DLR Group, equity is an outcome we are steadily striving toward. We understand that equity is achieved by providing balanced support to all people to ensure fair access to opportunity, reward, safety, security, and dignity, regardless of identity. Our strategy centers on three pillars : Enhance Employee Equity, Amplify Industry Impact, and Evolve our Design Practice.
In executing our brand promise to elevate the human experience through design, we center cultural competence as a superpower that equips us to develop design solutions that meet more than just functional needs, and helps us make people feel seen, valued, and respected enough to have a voice in informing the environments they exist in.
Position Summary
As the DEI Manager at DLR Group, you will play a key role, directly supporting the Global Leader of Equity, Diversity, and Belonging in the implementation of the firm's strategies to foster a diverse, equitable, and inclusive work environment, foster relationships within the AEC industry and academia to amplify our impact, and bring an equity lens to evolve our design processes. This position involves collaborating with various stakeholders, managing initiatives, and ensuring the DEI team's work is efficiently and effectively executed. This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced and entrepreneurial DEI leader to make a significant impact in a global organization and deliver results.
If you are a collaborative thought leader with a strategic mindset this might be the position for you. DLR Group is 100% employee owned and as such you'll enjoy the opportunity to have ownership in the Firm. We rely on all our employee-owners to apply their financial acumen to grow the Firm profitably.
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Your experience may look a little different from what we've outlined, or you may not check every box, but if you think you can bring value to the Equity team at DLR Group, we encourage you to apply.
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DLR Group is an integrated design firm delivering architecture, engineering, interiors, planning, and building optimization for new builds, renovations, and adaptive reuse projects.
We are 100% employee-owned : every employee is literally invested in our clients' success. At the core of our firm are interdisciplinary teams engaged in every step of project lifecycles. Our teams champion true collaboration, open information sharing, shared risk and reward, value-based decision making, and proficient use of technology to deliver exceptional design. We are pursuing the goals of the 2030 Challenge, the ME2040, and the SE2050, and are an initial signatory of the China Accord and the AIA 2030 Commitment.
Through our values - commitment, creativity, environmental stewardship, fun, integrity, ownership, sharing, teamwork - we elevate the human experience through design, together.
We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action / M / F / Veteran / Disabled employer.
