Not clear to me whether you can mandate that a particular position go to a minority. United Steelworkers says racial preferences are sometimes permissible but c

Not clear to me whether you can mandate that a particular position go to a minority. United Steelworkers says racial preferences are sometimes permissible but cannot be an absolute bar against hiring non-minorities. So the question is whether that requirement applies at the level of individual jobs or only at a higher level (some positions can be reserved for minorities so long as the department or institution isn't exclusively hiring minorities in all positions). The law here seems quite vague and I wonder if the interpretation would depend on the ideological composition of the court and perhaps what they had for breakfast that morning. If I had to guess though, I think the court that decided United Steelworkers would also rule favorably on the legality of the OP's situation, and would apply basically the same principles to do so.