Deputy Director Young Risk Professionals

About The Institutes

Located in beautiful Malvern Pennsylvania The Institutes are a not-for-profit comprised of diverse affiliates that educate elevate and connect people in the essential disciplines of risk management and insurance. Through products and services offered by our nearly 20 affiliated business units people and organizations are empowered to help those in need with a focus on understanding predicting and preventing losses to create a more resilient world.

Additionally we understand the importance of work-life balancein 2026 named us a Top Workplace for the eleventh year and USA Today named us a USA Top Workplace for the fourth year. We provide excellent benefits and a friendly team-focused work environment to drive employee engagement.

Deputy Director

The Deputy Director serves as the staff leader for YRP responsible for translating the organizations mission and strategy into execution across membership programs operations and enterprise coordination. It combines strategic leadership with hands-on management in a lean start-up environment and is designed for a growing membership-based organization serving young professionals in risk management and insurance. YRP focuses on three main pillars: Networking Mentoring and Education.

This role acts as a staff liaison to the executive leadership council and shared-services partners leads planning and implementation of member programs and experiences manages the organizations budget and helps build the systems partnerships and infrastructure needed for sustainable growth.

*This role will lead and align various volunteer chapter board members without direct supervisory duties.

What Youll Do:

Departmental Leadership and Management

1. Lead execution of the business units strategic priorities annual operating plan and key performance measures.
2. Collaborate with Chapter leadership in strategic planning and execution on a chapter level.
3. Build and maintain a rolling annual plan that integrates membership programming communications sponsorship and operational milestones.
4. Establish practical systems workflows and documentation that support quality consistency and scale in a start-up environment.
5. Identify opportunities for innovation growth and improved member value while balancing budget capacity and business unit priorities.

Membership and Community Growth

1. Develop and implement strategies for member recruitment onboarding engagement retention and renewal.
2. Define refine and communicate the business units member value proposition for young professionals in risk management and insurance.
3. In collaboration with Business Unit Marketing design and improve the member journey including programs communications and community-building opportunities.
4. Use data feedback and participation trends to recommend improvements to membership offerings and engagement strategy.
5. Collaborate with Partnership team to create and market sponsorship packages.

Executive Leadership Council and Member Relations

1. Serve as the primary staff liaison to Executive Leadership Council including agenda planning meeting preparation follow-up and execution of priorities.
2. Build strong relationships with ELC members volunteers and external stakeholders to support engagement alignment and informed decision-making.
3. Prepare reports updates presentations and planning materials for the ELC and other stakeholders.
4. Support governance-related coordination including committee activity bylaws implementation and volunteer leadership engagement as applicable.

Programs Events and Partnerships

1. Lead planning and delivery of member programs educational offerings networking opportunities and events both virtual and in person.
2. Coordinate with marketing communications technology finance and other shared-services partners to ensure effective execution and a strong member experience.
3. Help develop and support sponsorship partnership and stakeholder engagement efforts that strengthen the business units reach and sustainability.
4. Ensure project management structures calendars and accountability mechanisms are in place for key initiatives and events.

Financial and Operational Stewardship

1. Develop and manage the business units annual budget in partnership with organizational leadership and finance support.
2. Monitor revenue and expenses track performance against goals and recommend adjustments as needed to support financial sustainability.
3. Oversee day-to-day operations of the business unit including vendor coordination technology platforms compliance support and process improvement.
4. Establish regular reporting on business unit performance membership metrics program outcomes and budget status.
5. Collaborate with chapters and finance to ensure compliance with non-profit status.

What Were Looking For:

1. Bachelors degree required.
2. 5 years of professional work experience required.
3. Risk management and insurance experience strongly preferred.
4. Experience working with young professionals emerging talent communities or member populations in risk management and insurance strongly preferred.
5. Experience leading teams.
6. Demonstrated ability to turn strategic goals into measurable execution and operational results.
7. Experience managing budgets vendors and projects.
8. Experience building programs events engagement strategies or member-facing initiatives preferred.

Key Competencies

1. Strategic thinking and sound judgment.
2. Strong written verbal and presentation communication skills.
3. Relationship-building across members volunteers sponsors and enterprise partners.
4. Adaptability and comfort in a start-up or evolving environment.
5. Problem-solving initiative and continuous improvement mindset.
6. Ability to work independently while coordinating effectively with others.

Special Working Conditions and Physical Demands

1. Minimal travel required

The Best Part The Benefits!

To enforce the importance of work-life balance employees enjoy excellent benefits including:

• 401(k) plan with company contribution up to 16%
• Generous time off package that includes paid vacation personal sick and holidays
• Paid maternity and parental leave
• Tuition reimbursement
• Medical dental vision and prescription coverage
• On our Malvern campus: Free lunch every day when working on campus onsite fitness center and a beautiful 1.25-mile walking path!

Required Experience:

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