Leadership Consultant

Leadership Consultants serve as ambassadors from the Central Office and provide support to chapters and colonies across the country.

Leadership consultants will have a portfolio of chapters that they will support in areas of operations, finance, recruitment, programming, and risk management.

They will assist in the Fraternity’s efforts to grow its membership through expansion projects and the development of colonies.

In addition, they will help execute national conferences, leadership experiences, and member education programs.

Please double check you have the right level of experience and qualifications by reading the full overview of this opportunity below.

Essential Duties : Strategic Work

• Operate with the framework of being expansion-minded, growth-minded, and retention-minded.
• Commit to building the undergraduate experience.

Functional Responsibilities and Deliverables

• Maintain constant communication with the officers and members of the chapters, alumni volunteers, and division officers.
• Monitor chapters’ financial conditions by evaluating the weekly aging report.
• Coach chapter leadership on officer transition processes.
• Support chapters in incorporating the Fraternity’s Ritual into chapter operations.
• Assist chapters in achieving recruitment goals and increasing retention rates for initiation.
• Support chapters in meeting accreditation standards.
• Conduct on-site visits to provide operational, financial, recruitment, and programming coaching.
• Serve as the on-site project lead for the Fraternity’s expansion projects, as necessary.
• Support and execute the Fraternity’s expansion program.
• Oversee the organization and preparation for expansion projects.
• Assist chapters and colonies with member retention.
• Help colonies develop the charter petition.
• Provide regular updates on the status of chapters and colonies to the Director of Chapter Services.
• Interface with campus partners and build rapport with campus stakeholders.
• Present to student groups to generate leads for new colonies.
• Promote the Fraternity through social media, in-person connections, and campus organizations.
• Cold call prospective members.
• Meet with individual colony officers and complete officer training.
• Act as lead consultant for one expansion project each year, as necessary.
• Facilitate meetings with volunteers and prospective members.
• Appoint seven to ten initial new colony officers.
• Submit written reports on activities and evaluations within 72 hours after each visit.
• Maintain weekly phone contact with Central Office staff and directors.
• Submit expense reports for timely reimbursement with appropriate receipts within 72 hours after each visit.
• Promote and recruit qualified candidates for the Chapter Consultant Program.

Competencies : The following competencies are important behaviors the person in this position will need to possess and develop.

The onboarding process, ongoing personal development, and performance benchmarks will focus on these competencies.

Other Responsibilities

• Travel will focus on a managed portfolio of ten to fifteen chapters or colonies and one to two expansion projects for varying lengths of time.
• Attend Division Conferences.
• Attend the Karnea convention on even years.
• Act as a representative of the organization and an ambassador of Delta Tau Delta.
• Work with various departments and external audiences to achieve organizational initiatives.
• Assist with other duties and projects as assigned.

Required Qualifications (Education, experience, knowledge, skills, overtime, licenses, etc.)

• Bachelor’s degree and knowledge of fraternity and sorority life and chapter operations.
• Complete a six to eight-week training period in Fishers, Ind. at the Delta Tau Delta Central Office.
• Travel approximately 85 percent of the time (approximately nine months) through the contiguous United States via car or plane, including nights and weekends.
• Valid driver’s license.
• Able to organize tasks according to priority.
• Experience in writing and delivering professional messages that are thorough and concise.
• Demonstrated resilience in overcoming challenges.
• Proven ability to build supportive networks.

Physical Demands (Needed to perform job duties and responsibilities)

While performing job responsibilities, the employee is required to talk, hear, see, sit for extended periods, stand, bend, walk, use hands and fingers to handle and feel, and lift at least 40 lbs.

Vision abilities required by this job include close and distance vision.

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