[Hiring] Executive Partner for Leadership Engagement @Leadership Roundtable

Role Description

Leadership Roundtable seeks an Executive Partner for Leadership Engagement to build, strengthen, and extend our relationships with bishops, dioceses, Catholic leaders, partner organizations, and supporters. This is a mission-critical senior leadership role — part ambassador, part partnership builder, part architect of the convenings that bring Catholic leaders together. The person we are looking for is a faithful, diplomatic, and deeply relational Catholic professional with significant experience working alongside Church leaders.

Key Responsibilities

• Church leadership relations
  • Build and steward relationships with bishops, diocesan leaders, clergy, religious, lay ecclesial ministers, Catholic nonprofit executives, Catholic higher education leaders, and aligned national Catholic organizations.
  • Develop and maintain a prioritized relationship map and engagement plan covering key priority dioceses and institutions.
  • Serve as a primary point of contact and trusted representative of Leadership Roundtable with Church leadership.
  • Ensure the Managing Partner and board are well prepared for external engagements.
  • Maintain a disciplined system of record for outreach, commitments, next steps, and partnership opportunities.
• Strategic partnerships
  • Identify, cultivate, and formalize partnerships with dioceses, Catholic organizations, school systems, apostolates, foundations, and ministries.
  • Design partnership pathways, Summit participation, advisory roles, program pilots, resource sharing, sponsorship, and speaking opportunities.
  • Work with program and development colleagues to align external relationships with organizational priorities.
  • Surface new opportunities for collaboration, funding, visibility, and thought leadership.
  • Own the design, strategy and outcomes of the Catholic Partnership Summit.
  • Set the Summit's stakeholder strategy: invitees, episcopal participation, speakers, advisory committee members, sponsors, and partner organizations.
  • Direct programming and speaker recruitment, and oversee the staff and contractors responsible for timelines, vendors, budget, registration, hospitality, communications, and VIP protocol.
  • Ensure each convening produces concrete outcomes and lead the post-event stewardship.
• Communications and representation
  • Represent Leadership Roundtable at Catholic conferences, diocesan events, partner meetings, and public forums.
  • Draft and shape talking points, correspondence with bishops and diocesan leaders, partner updates, event invitations, briefing memos, and stewardship communications.
  • Ensure external messaging is faithful to Leadership Roundtable's Catholic identity, mission, tone, and priorities.
  • Partner with communications colleagues on newsletters, Catholic media opportunities, social media, reports, and Summit materials.
• Development partnership
  • Work alongside development colleagues to identify sponsors, donors, foundations, and Catholic philanthropists.
  • Support sponsorship packages, donor briefings, and event cultivation.
  • Help steward major partners and sponsors before, during, and after key convenings.

Qualifications

• Substantial senior leadership experience, roughly fifteen years of progressively responsible leadership, either within Catholic institutions or in mission-driven organizations.
• A practicing Catholic in good standing.
• Demonstrated ability to build trust with senior leaders across very different worlds.
• Strong judgment, discretion, and diplomacy.
• Proven ability to direct complex, multi-stakeholder initiatives through others.
• Superior written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to travel approximately 30% of the time.
• Genuine commitment to Leadership Roundtable's mission and values.

Preferred

• Master's degree in a related field: nonprofit management, business, pastoral ministry, theology, communications, or public policy.
• Prior work in a diocese, Catholic nonprofit, Catholic university, foundation, apostolate, bishops' conference, or national Catholic organization.
• Existing relationships across Catholic dioceses, ministries, or philanthropic networks.
• Experience planning conferences, retreats, bishop briefings, advisory councils, or high-level convenings.
• Fundraising, sponsorship, or donor-relations experience.

Benefits

• Competitive non-profit salary based on experience and qualifications.
• Option to participate in pre-tax retirement (401k or ROTH) with up to 5% of employee deferral contributions eligible for match.
• Full health, dental, vision, shorter term and long term disability and life insurance are provided.
• Generous holiday package including: 10 vacation, 10 sick, 20-21 holidays days per calendar year including Christmas to New Years and the 4th of July week.