After 2 years, job search has not begun

After two years under an interim director, the Equal Opportunity and Compliance Office will begin the search for a permanent director in spring 2016, said Becci Menghini, associate vice chancellor for workforce strategy, equity and engagement .

The Equal Opportunity and Compliance Office oversees discrimination and prohibitive act policies at UNC, including Title IX.

Since the end of 2013, this office has functioned under Interim Director Jayne Grandes.

“Certainly I didn’t expect it to last for two years and be in an interim position for two years, but also there’s been some changes in administration and in the reporting structure in my office, and we’ve just been really busy,” Grandes said. “I understand that these things take some time and from what I understand that’s being looked at.”

Hilary Delbridge, spokesperson for the Equal Opportunity and Compliance Office, said these changes in administration included appointing Menghini to her current position in August 2015. Delbridge said Menghini is in charge of posting a permanent director’s position.

Menghini, who is an outside hire, said she is focused on understanding the office’s multiple levels of compliance before she takes the next steps in the search for a new director.

“I need to just get an understanding of what everybody is doing and set some priorities for where we want to go and as part of that, we need to think what structure makes the most sense to get us to all of those places,” Menghini said.

She said she is working directly with the office to best understand its functions and desired improvements.

“I told the team when I came on board that I would spend some time doing that and I’ve been honoring that pledge and given them an opportunity to chat with me and talk a little bit about what it is they’re doing and what they see as opportunities and where they think it could be more efficient or done differently, so we’re in the process of evaluating that collectively,” Menghini said.

Menhgini said she doesn’t see a search for a new director in starting in 2015, but she thinks it will start in 2016. She said the search would function normally, beginning with defining the job description based on the interim position and those who work with the office frequently.

“We’d post the job description and we’d have a search committee and just like any other search we would publicize nationally, we would ask the search committee to reach out to networks, we would ask people in the office to reach out to networks, I would network with people who are in the state,” said Menhgini. “And it may be we have interim candidates apply.”

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