The Vice President (VP), Membership and Meetings will work closely with the President & CEO and Senior Vice President (SVP) of Membership and Meetings to ensure the vision and goals of the association remain aligned with its strategic plan. This role ensures strategies are member-focused, and collaborations align with the association’s mission and vision. The VP, Membership and Meetings will endorse positive collaboration among stakeholders and ensure that delivery of information is timely and pertinent to promote ideal communication both internally and externally. The role also sets strategy, delivers on member recruitment and retention, member engagement, and delivers other valuable assets to the member community.
The ideal candidate will be able to:
Enhance, amplify, and implement organizational vision as established in the association’s strategic plan for membership, meetings, and education.
Demonstrate consistent quality of finance and administration, fundraising, communications, and systems; recommend timelines and resources needed to achieve the program goals.
Develop necessary systems, processes, and tools to better support the facilitation, collection, and sharing of knowledge that is generated by the programs.
Develop a dissemination system to share organizational learning with a broad range of communities.
Ensure that key project outcomes and/or policy, advocacy, and legislation are evaluated and leveraged for maximum community and organizational impact.
Work collaboratively with the senior management team to integrate cross program activities and functions.
Implement member strategy by means of budgets and procedures and building strong relationships with key stakeholders.
Oversee the member data process, including collection, analytics, trending, and reporting.
Work in tandem with the meetings team to continuously improve the registration process and member experience.
Work along with the meetings team, volunteer planning communities, and other stakeholders to ensure the success delivery and execution of UTC events.
Assist with growing UTC’s webinar program and growing the corresponding revenue to meet budget expectations.
Assist in the development of education programs and recruitment of education programs’ faculty and presenters.
Minimum of 10 years of experience required.
Hold a graduate degree in business, or non-profit leadership, required (with demonstrated success in membership development).
Established record of engagement and leadership that includes effective collaboration working within an organizational environment; leading teams; developing and executing strategic plans; metric-driven analytics; market research; dues modeling; maximizing revenue and creating and implementing new programs and initiatives.
Ability to understand and access trends and marketplace dynamics as they impact membership value, retention, and recruitment in a trade association.
The Utilities Technology Council (UTC) is a global association focused on the intersection of telecommunications and utility infrastructure. UTC gives voice to the men and women in the utility workforce who create and maintain critical communications systems that help keep the lights and the water flowing. We represent the hands-on folks in the field and control rooms responding to storms, deploying new technologies, and securing energy and water infrastructure from all kinds of threats. UTC sits at the nexus between the energy and telecommunications industries, which are rapidly converging and becoming more interdependent.
Embedded throughout utilities’ critical equipment is a series of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) networks providing utilities with greater control, protection and situational awareness over their infrastructure. These networks are so embedded into the grid that they are nearly as important to reliability as the electricity which flows through the lines. Most utilities in the U.S. and Canada deploy some form of their own “private” ICT networks alongside the towers, lines, poles, and meters that make up their infrastructure. ICT networks are c...ritical for day-to-day operational reliability, efficiency, resilience, storm response/recovery, cybersecurity, modernization, situational awareness, and the integration of distributed resources. Not only are these networks essential for the daily task of delivering electricity, as demands for utilities change, ICT networks are the key to Utility 2.0—likely a more decentralized, efficient, cleaner industry giving consumers more control over their usage.
Through advocacy, education and collaboration, UTC creates a favorable business, regulatory and technological environment for organizations that own, manage or provide critical utility telecommunications systems.
