Senior Advisor, State Partnerships

Leadingage•Washington, DC

3d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Advisor serves as the primary strategic liaison to LeadingAge’s state partners, strengthening collaboration and alignment across the LeadingAge network. Working closely with state executives, the CEO, and the LeadingAge senior team, the Senior Advisor identifies state priorities, insights, and directions for coordinated action, and advances initiatives that maximize the value of the national-state partnership. The role reports to the President and CEO. The Senior Advisor leads relationships with state partners and multi-state member organizations; gathers and synthesizes member and state insights; coordinates engagement across LeadingAge teams; and establishes targets, measures, and reporting for partner engagement. The position is based in Washington, D.C.; candidates in that area are preferred but not required. Local candidates work in the D.C. office three days per week under a hybrid model. Travel to states, member communities, and external meetings is required, including frequent and periodic overnight travel. This is a full-time, exempt position with a 37.5-hour work week. The salary range is $185,000–$195,000. Salary may vary based on relevant factors, including background and experience, knowledge, skills and abilities, certifications and licensures, internal equity, geographic location, and organizational needs.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
Fifteen or more years of progressively responsible experience, including at least five years in a senior leadership role in an association, federated network, or comparable member-based organization.
Direct experience in aging services or a closely related field, such as long-term care, healthcare, senior housing, or related state or federal policy work.
Experience working with state associations or other federated partners, including facilitating alignment across independent organizations with differing priorities.
Ability to build trust with, advise, and influence senior executives and board leaders without direct authority.
Experience managing senior-level external relationships, including with multi-state provider organizations, association executives, and board leadership.
Strong understanding of association management, governance, and how national and state organizations work together.
Demonstrated leadership, relationship-building, and collaboration skills.
Excellent oral and written communication skills, including the ability to represent LeadingAge at state and national events as a leader and speaker.
Working knowledge of association technology, including CRM and membership databases, virtual collaboration tools, and data analysis tools.
Comfort working with member, dues, and engagement data and using it for strategy, performance management, and reporting.
Support for the LeadingAge mission.
Ability to communicate information and ideas clearly, learn and translate technical material, and produce extensive written communications.
Ability to travel to external meetings locally and nationally, including frequent and periodic overnight travel.
Ability to use a telephone and computer and to be mobile at meetings and events; work may involve frequent office movement and prolonged sitting or standing during meetings and conferences.
Ability to communicate in large gatherings and conduct meetings using technology.

Nice To Haves

Advanced degree preferred.

Responsibilities

Serve as the primary liaison with state executives and board leadership to strengthen the national-state partnership and identify opportunities for collaboration on issues, gaps, and duplication.
Assess how state and national efforts work together to deliver member value; identify aligned priorities and areas needing greater coordination, clarity, or action.
Support the development of state partnerships, affiliations, and collaboration among states.
Work with the Membership team to ensure state-specific needs and shared priorities inform membership strategies, with complementary roles for national and state partners.
Lead relationships with multi-state member organizations, partnering with the President and CEO on executive-level engagement and maintaining consistent, concierge-like engagement.
Bring multi-state member organization insights into LeadingAge planning and decision-making in partnership with Membership, policy, education, research and programs, communications, and other teams.
Gather and synthesize member insights from state partners, identify patterns, and surface emerging needs and interests for national-state attention or support.
Establish ways to capture and share knowledge about member segments to inform strategic planning and assess whether LeadingAge delivers meaningful value.
Ensure state and member insights reach LeadingAge leadership with clear implications for national priorities and initiatives.
Coordinate LeadingAge’s engagement with states across teams to reduce duplication and disconnected outreach, clarify roles and accountability, and bring the organization’s resources to state partnerships.
Collaborate with LeadingAge State Partner Services to identify opportunities to support states with administrative functions, data analysis, and other needs.
Establish and monitor annual engagement targets for state partners and multi-state organizations, with outcomes, roles, success measures, work plans, and budget support.
Regularly report to the CEO on state and member insights, cross-state trends, emerging issues, and opportunities requiring broader attention or action.
Maintain current information about state executives, board and volunteer leaders, and key staff, as well as systems for capturing state and member insights and engagement.
Periodically assess the strength and effectiveness of the national-state partnership, including priority alignment, role clarity, coordination, and the value states see in the partnership.
Demonstrate LeadingAge’s Core Values—Community, Catalyst, Courage, and Stewardship—and foster an inclusive workplace.
Travel to states and member communities and represent LeadingAge at state and national events as a leader and speaker.

Benefits

Unlimited vacation after successful completion of the introductory period.
15 hours of volunteer time.
22.5 hours of personal time.
Accrual of 12 days of sick leave per year, up to a maximum of 60 days or 450 hours.
Medical, dental, short- and long-term disability, and life insurance, with generous employer contributions to medical, dental, and vision premiums.
Employer-paid short- and long-term disability, life and AD&D, and long-term care coverage.
Employer contribution to a Health Savings Account (HSA).
11 paid federal holidays.
Opportunity to join the 403(b) savings and retirement plan upon hire through voluntary contributions.
After one year of service, a match of up to 3% of the employee’s per-pay-period contribution to the 403(b) plan.
Additional employer contribution of 4% of semi-monthly gross salary each pay period to the 403(b) plan.