Raiders Seeking Management Person For Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Position

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By Alan Snel, LVSportsBiz.com Publisher/Writer

The Las Vegas Raiders, known for breaking new ground when it comes to their hires, are expanding their efforts to hire a more diverse staff.

The Raiders are looking to hire a “Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.”

The Raiders posted the job on the LinkedIn site.

The fulltime management job is looking for a person who will be a “cultural change agent,” according to the job description.

Here’s a verbatim look at the entire job overview:

The job functions include working to “minimize bias”: “Create and facilitate educational opportunities for leaders, managers, and employees, with a focus on empowering teams to actively weave inclusion and allyship into their work while incorporating tools and practices that minimize bias.”

Here’s the job functions:

The person in this job reports to the Raiders human resources VP.

The Raiders are known for their diverse hires under owner Mark Davis and his father and previous owner, Al Davis.

The team drew national attention this year for the hiring of Sandra Douglass Morgan, who was the first Black woman to be hired as an NFL team president.

The NFL’s first Hispanic starting quarterback was the Raiders’ Tom Flores in 1960 before he was the first Hispanic head coach in 1979.

And the Raiders named Art Shell as the NFL’s first Black head coach in 1989, while the Raiders’ Amy Trask was named the league’s first female CEO in 1997.

Here in Las Vegas, the Raiders’ front office became known for its high turnover rate, with an interim team president, Dan Ventrelle, fired by Davis this year after Ventrelle said he reported hostile work environment issues to the NFL. A former human resources vice president also left the Raiders this past year.

Davis has hired women like Las Vegas Aces team president Nikki Fargas to run the operations of his Aces team, a club that just won the WNBA title after Davis bought the team in January 2021.

Here’s a sampling of some of the comments to the Raiders’ job post on LinkedIn:

Here are the job qualifications:

Nineteen applicants have applied so far, according to the LinkedIn post.