The Regional Director (RD) team supports more than 20 NACD chapters (including two national chapter entities) in 35 cities throughout the United States. Each RD is responsible for a portfolio of chapters, “entrenching” themselves in each chapter as appropriate and partnering with volunteer chapter board members and paid (often contracted) staff, working to achieve consistently high levels of performance by creating, sharing, and integrating leading practices and aligning the chapter with national strategic objectives. Though each chapter is its own 501(c)(3) organization, the chapters are governed by a charter agreement and associated operating policies.

In collaboration with the volunteer chapter leaders—who serve on a working chapter board—as well as staff at each chapter, the RD shares chapter best practices to strategically support the chapters’ strengths, while helping to heighten performance in areas where improvement can and should be made, including program attendance and quality, event content/planning/processes, sponsor relationships, innovative member engagement, and critical collaboration with our national organization and strategy. The RD helps chapters deliver exceptional and increasing value to members to meet quantitative (e.g., number of programs, number of attendees) and qualitative (e.g., quality of programs, sharing of thought leadership, breadth and quality of speakers, peer-to-peer connections) engagement goals—guided by the current Chapter Success Roadmap—which, in turn, feed national goals in membership retention and growth, and in support of NACD Directorship Certification®. They may also be involved with chapter board leaders to augment chapter board and staff development, engagement, strategic planning, succession planning, committee structure, director onboarding and off-boarding, and hiring/training/onboarding of chapter staff.

The RD does not solely work with his/her respective portfolio chapters. The RD also serves as part of a strong national Chapter Network Team and an active chapter network, collaborating with a variety of staff at the national level and chapter ad-hoc working groups. They are strategically placed across the chapter network on initiatives as needed while contributing to resources and thought leadership on the team, as well as across NACD’s initiatives and growth efforts outlined in the NACD strategy.

NACD chapters continually evolve as their board composition and leadership change and as NACD national priorities shift to meet the changing demands of oversight in the governance ecosystem. The RD is responsible for ensuring that NACD chapters can meet the demands and navigate these changes successfully.

This position description summarizes the main duties of the job. It neither prescribes nor restricts the exact tasks that may be required to carry out these duties. This document should not be construed in any way to represent a contract of employment. Management reserves the right to review and revise this document at any time.

NACD employees are required to be fully vaccinated for the COVID-19 virus by their first day of employment. An employee is “fully vaccinated” two weeks after receiving their second dose of a two-dose vaccination series or two weeks after the first shot of a single-dose vaccine (or as described by the vaccine manufacturer).