Assistant Director, Training & Education , Gender Equity Resource Center

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The Gender Equity Resource Center (Gen Eq) advances gender equity, LGBTQ+ inclusion, and a welcoming campus climate for all at UC Berkeley. As the campus hub for gender and sexuality education, engagement, and support, Gen Eq works to cultivate learning environments, policies, and programs that foster access, belonging, and success for people of all genders and sexualities, with particular attention to the experiences of women and LGBTQ+ communities.

Core program areas include LGBTQ+ initiatives, Women’s initiatives, Men & Masculinities initiatives, and Sexual and Relationship Violence awareness and resource referral. Gen Eq is part of the Centers for Educational Justice and Community Engagement (EJCE). The Centers for Educational Justice and Community Engagement (EJCE) is collaborative charged with developing programs, activities, and strategies that promote students’ academic progress and success by engaging them through intersectional and multicultural practices that acknowledge and celebrate their individual and collective experiences.

The EJCE collaborative coordinates a series of academic courses and educational and multicultural activities through its centers & offices (African American Student Development, Fannie Lou Hamer Black Resource Center, Asian Pacific American Student Development, Chicanx Latinx Student Development, Latinx Student Resource Center, the Gender Equity Resource Center, Multicultural Community Center, Native American Student Development and the Native Community Center, and South Asian, Southwest Asian, and North African Student Development.

The collaborative is a key campus partner in helping the campus create an inclusive environment for campus populations through intersectional and transformative practices and approaches focused on mitigating harm and promoting connections among and across diverse communities. Each partner space is steeped in rich and vibrant legacies and established community-centered praxes of educational justice: leadership development, access, activism, academic excellence and social justice.

Our work reflects interconnected identities and experiences through our collective and individual commitments to support and advance future global leaders. The EJCE team is housed within the Division of Equity & Inclusion.

The Assistant Director for Training & Education develops and implements educational initiatives that advance gender equity across all genders—including women, men, nonbinary and transgender individuals—LGBTQ+ inclusion, and intersectional justice at UC Berkeley. This position designs and facilitates in-person and online training sessions, develops curriculum and digital learning tools, and supervises student peer educators to expand…