Senior Associate Regional Director (Board, Leadership & Campus Engagement)

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The Senior Associate Regional Director directs the strategy, governance, and engagement of the Regional Board while overseeing volunteer leadership initiatives like the Glass Leadership Institute. Serving as the primary lead for the region’s higher education strategy, this role cultivates relationships with university stakeholders and manages the national campus report card process. Additionally, the Director collaborates with divisional teams to deliver core educational programs, such as Words to Action, and drives all regional data collection, assessment platforms, and annual metrics reporting.

• Collaborate with Board leadership to develop and continuously strengthen the Board’s vision, structure, engagement, and effectiveness.
• Recruit, cultivate, develop, and support volunteer leaders at all levels of the Region.
• Partner with Board committee chairs and staff liaisons to ensure that committees have clear objectives, meaningful opportunities for engagement, and alignment with regional priorities.
• Facilitate communication and collaboration among Board committees, and ADL teams.

• Oversee, coordinate, and implement the Region’s GLI program, ensuring its effectiveness, relevance, and alignment with Regional and organizational objectives.
• Support Spoke Markets in developing and strengthening local GLI and volunteer leadership programs.
• Identify and cultivate emerging leaders and develop pathways for continued engagement and progression into Regional and organizational leadership roles.
• Collaborate with Programs Director on coordinating and presenting ADL engagement programs, measuring impact and sustainability.

• Drive the Region’s work on college and university campuses, building and maintaining relationships with administrators, students, Hillels, and Chabads.
• Collaborate with the national campus team report card schools to facilitate the report card process.
• Build and maintain relationships with non-report card schools in Illinois and Wisconsin, establishing ADL as a resource.
• Collaborate with the Community Engagement Managers to build relationships with campus administrators and students throughout the Region.
• Collaborate with the Assistant Regional Director for incident response to respond to incidents on campus.

• Collaborate with the Division Programs Director to facilitate programming in the Region.
• Support Senior Regional Director to meet Regional goals for Words to Action.
• Collaborate with internal teams to pilot, run, and present ADL products in the Region.

This job description provides a general overview of the role and its key responsibilities. It is not an exhaustive list of all duties, and ADL reserves the right to assign additional tasks as needed. 

• Ability to develop and implement Board governance, engagement, and leadership strategies.
• Demonstrated ability to identify, cultivate, engage, and develop volunteer leaders.
• Strategic planning and strategy-execution skills, including the ability to translate organizational priorities into actionable plans, assess progress and effectiveness, identify obstacles, and recommend adjustments.
• Organizational and problem-solving skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and maintain focus on strategic objectives.
• Demonstrated experience in relationship-management skills and the ability to build trust with senior volunteer leaders, Board members, colleagues, and external stakeholders.
• Written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate effectively with and inspire senior leaders.
• Ability to work collaboratively across teams and functions while exercising sound judgment and discretion.
• Familiarity with ADL, its mission, programs, and organizational structure is highly desirable.

• Significant professional experience in Board management and governance, volunteer leadership development, nonprofit management, program management, strategy implementation, organizational planning, or a related field.
• Experience designing or managing leadership-development programs and building leadership pipelines.

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field or equivalent combination of education and professional experience required.
• Additional coursework, certification, or professional training in nonprofit management, Board governance, leadership development, organizational strategy, or a related field is preferred.

• ADL is a hybrid environment; this role requires 3 days in the office.