Team Leader, Chapter Affairs & BOG

The Team Leader serves as a strategic leader of the American College of Cardiology’s (ACC) domestic chapters and its only elected leadership board – the Board of Governors (BOG).  As an integral member of the Membership division, the Team Leader will drive the optimization of ACC activities at the state level and will establish strategies for chapter growth and development maximizing member engagement. The Team Leader will integrate complex activities within Chapter Affairs and BOG Department and across other departments.  In addition, this position is the steward for the strategic direction of the department including staff development and management and appropriate budget setting to accomplish goals.

This position is based in Washington, DC where we have a hybrid work environment (two days per week in the office).

Major Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Serve as the primary staff liaison for all overarching efforts of ACC’s Board of Governors and domestic chapters, including facilitating the leadership of the Board of Governors Steering Committee and the Chapter Executives.
• Foster collaboration among the College’s Governors, other College member leaders, staff and Chapter Executives to provide educational tools that advance goals in alignment with ACC goals.
• Oversee management of domestic chapters to ensure that all channels of communication are open and expectations are clear, and employ reporting mechanisms that measure success and identify gaps where necessary. 
• Establish well defined annual goals that support the mission and objectives of the ACC as they relate to the BOG and chapters, and develop the department budget in support of these goals.
• Provide comprehensive orientation for newly elected leaders and for Chapter Executives, and serve as a resource for best practices, advice, and resource identification for chapters in a transition.
• Supervise chapter dues distribution processes to ensure procedures and guidelines are followed.
• Facilitate BOG leadership succession planning and decision making by overseeing the Chair election process. Also supervises two in-person and one virtual meeting of the entire board, annually. 
• Supervise the governor elections to ensure integrity of the process and adherence to the bylaws, professionally and without bias.
• Oversee the collection of annual reporting from chapters including, but not limited to, financial reports from individual chapters, as well as the annual State of the States report.
• Supervise two staff supporting Chapter Affairs.
• Conduct annual performance evaluations.
• Support growth and development.
• Assist in prioritization of workloads.
• Support growth of department through individual needs.
• Prepare, implement, and monitor the budget in support of department, BOG and staff goals.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree.
• Eight + years of related experience in associations with extensive experience in membership and/or component relations.
• Demonstrated knowledge and track record of achievements of association management and volunteer leadership development.
• Ability to diplomatically engage with multiple groups of high-level member leaders.
• Capability to balance demands of outside constituencies with needs of the College.
• Proven discretion when dealing with sensitive information.
• Strategic project work including problem solving and decision-m