Associate Director, National Lieutenant Governors Association

Job Title

Associate Director

National Lieutenant Governors Association (NLGA)

Exempt

Executive Director, National Lieutenant Governors Association (NLGA)

The National Lieutenant Governors Association is seeking a strong communicator with relevant experience to help drive development, marketing, and events at a national, nonpartisan association serving elected officials! This role offers a unique opportunity to expand your skills, take ownership of key projects, and help shape meetings and initiatives that can impact state government. NLGA is seeking an organized self‑starter that thrives in a collaborative, small‑team environment, brings creativity and strategic thinking to projects, and is located in the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky region.

• Perform all-sources development: fundraising, sales, invoicing, collection, tracking and reporting, service, recognition, renewal, and relationship building and maintenance
• Responsible to meet goal amounts
• Initiate and complete private sector membership and sponsorship sales, including in‑kind donations, in‑kind events, and possible grant application completion and writing
• Lead fundraising for 3+ meetings a year, largely from the private sector
• Assist in identification of opportunities from private sector, partners, foundations, and entities of government to fund policy research, seminars, capital expenses, international travel, or other
• Maintenance of all development through service, relationship building, billing & collections, renewals, tracking and reporting, etc.

• Represent the Association, its members and the office of lieutenant governor professionally and in a non‑partisan manner
• Responsible for speakers’ technical needs for 3+ meetings/yr
• Second‑in‑command for meeting development, planning and execution, which may include leading on site visits and hotel selections, working with hotel on contractual issues, and management of and issues related to the hotel block
• Initiate/respond to public and private sector members and the press
• Assist in development of web site(s), and content for and posting to web site(s)
• Continue or initiate emerging media services including webinars, social media
• Become a primary user of the association database system, web site, and financial reporting system through self‑guided study
• Become a primary user of other software/systems necessary to operate NLGA (i.e. Microsoft and Adobe products, Quick Books, Good Grants, Word Press, etc.), through self‑guided study
• Initiate improvements to NLGA communications, including web site, meeting materials, meeting agenda book, e‑newsletter, printed newsletter, annual report, portfolio, more, and assist in writing and completion of each on deadline and suggest new or replacement opportunities
• Assist in content development for all NLGA services, products, publications and meetings
• Identify, initiate, service, and maintain new and existing services, projects, and opportunities for public and private sector members and staff
• Write research papers, news stories, newsletter articles, press releases, and various written updates

• Accept and readily assume a leadership role in the association sharing with the Director ideas and advice on short and long term planning, priorities, and strategic vision, while understanding the small nature of the association means the Associate Director performs his/er own and Association daily tasks (i.e. typing, telephone answering, filing, lifting and moving crates and boxes, )
• Staff various sessions, meetings or missions which may contain international guests or to plan or help plan international missions, where this employee may not be attending, may also be attending, or may be attending as the lead or sole staff person
• Serve as committee or project director on a myriad of duties include agenda and minutes preparation, budget compliance, fiscal and/or policy analysis, development and maintenance of technical aspects
• Lead various projects which may include web site…