§19016 Chief Diversity Officer of the Nsf

Summary

The Director must appoint a senior official in the Office of the Director to be the Chief Diversity Officer. That person must have strong experience in the federal government and the science community on diversity and inclusion, such as civil rights compliance, handling harassment complaints and investigations, equal employment matters, and disability policy. The Chief Diversity Officer must advise and coordinate the Foundation’s diversity and inclusion work, including making sure programs are geographically diverse. Duties include creating a public strategic plan with a clear diversity vision and goals, setting measurable metrics tied to priorities and using them to carry out the plan, helping bring in diverse people and colleges (including community colleges, HBCUs, Tribal Colleges or Universities, minority-serving institutions, institutions with STEM programs for Native Hawaiians or Alaska Natives, and EPSCoR institutions), advising on outreach to untapped places and underrepresented groups, guiding PreK–12 STEM diversity efforts, advising on the Foundation’s broader impacts review, and any other tasks the Director assigns. Up to $5,000,000 is authorized for each of fiscal years 2023 through 2027 to support these activities.