Executive Partner Leadership Engagement

Leadership Roundtable seeks an Executive Partner, 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: someone who understands Church management and governance, who communicates with excellence, and who knows how to turn a relationship into real collaboration and lasting impact.

The Executive Partner, Leadership Engagement leads Leadership Roundtable's relationships with the Catholic leaders and institutions we serve: bishops and diocesan leadership, national Catholic organizations, Catholic universities and school systems, religious communities, apostolates, foundations, and strategic partners.

This is a senior, externally facing role. The Executive Partner serves as a trusted ambassador for our mission, builds durable relationships across the Church, and translates those relationships into collaboration, visibility, program growth, and measurable impact. Just as importantly, the role is a bridge - between lay business and professional leaders on one side and Church leadership on the other - bringing the best thinking from both worlds to bear on the practical work of running Catholic institutions well.

The Executive Partner also directs Leadership Roundtable's flagship convening, the Catholic Partnership Summit: setting its strategy and stakeholder architecture, and overseeing the staff and contractors responsible for delivery.

• 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 connecting the Church leaders with the programmatic and support services of LR where needed.
• Ensure the Managing Partner and board are well prepared for external engagements - briefing materials, relationship histories, meeting notes, and clear follow-up.
• Maintain a disciplined system of record for outreach, commitments, next steps, and partnership opportunities.

• 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, coordinating with the leadership team at Leadership Roundtable so the focus of the summit is integrated across the support and partnership work.
• 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…