Governance Manager

Founded in 1919, Zonta International is a global human rights organization working to build a better world for women and girls. Today, Zonta operates in 65 countries, bringing together members worldwide to advance gender equality through service and advocacy.

Guided by its core values of integrity, respect, equity and inclusion, friendship, and global community, Zonta works to ensure that women’s rights are recognized as human rights. Its global efforts focus on eliminating violence against women and girls, promoting equal access to education, strengthening women’s participation in decision making, and advancing gender responsive approaches to climate justice.

Zonta International is nonpartisan and nonsectarian and holds consultative status with the United Nations, reflecting its long-standing commitment to ethical leadership, strong governance, and global impact.

As Governance Manager , you will sit at the center of Zonta International’s global decision-making, ensuring sound governance and effective leadership across a worldwide organization working to advance women’s and girls’ rights. Your work directly enables the International Board and volunteer leaders to act strategically, ethically and efficiently.

The Governance Manager will demonstrate solid knowledge of governance and association operations while developing trust with volunteer leaders. This individual provides executive-level support to the International Board and Executive Director on organizational governance activities, coordinates meetings of the International Board, committees and governors, and tracks and maintains all Board-approved policies. The Governance Manager reports directly to the Executive Director and has no supervisory responsibilities.

This position has extensive membership contact and interaction with member leaders.

• Manages governance operations working in tangent with the Executive Director to establish priorities, draft reports, anticipate change, and identify rising concerns.
• Supports the International Board in adhering to nonprofit governance best practices, including fiduciary oversight, ethical standards and conflict of interest compliance.
• Manages scheduling, preparation and maintenance of agendas, meeting materials and minutes for meetings of the International Board in OnBoard meeting management platform.
• Takes minutes at International Board meetings, ensuring the final minutes are a complete and accurate reflection of the discussions and decisions taken in the meetings
• Maintain action and motion logs of all meetings of the International Board.
• Tracks and updates the Board-approved policies and maintains current policy documents in collaboration with the Policies & Manuals Working Group.
• Organizes contracts for meetings of the International Board, including meeting space, accommodations, catering and technology requirements.
• Interfaces with Board members and Headquarters Finance Team to ensure the timely submission and processing of Board expense reimbursements.
• Maintains and updates International Leadership section of the Zonta International website.

• Serves as a staff liaison to the International Nominating Committee and Policies & Manuals Working Group.
• Maintains records for all international committees in iMIS membership database.
• Requests and tracks conflict-of-interest disclosures for current committee members.
• Ensures that standing committee conflict-of-interest disclosures and rosters are updated annually.
• Coordinates onboarding and regular meetings for the International Committee Chairs and Governors per schedule established by the International President and Executive Director.
• Coordinates Governors’ Orientation logistics and meeting details, including hotel contracts, local transportation, room setup, AV orders, food and beverage and day‑of meeting needs.

• Manages logistics for the biennial nominations and elections process for the Zonta International and Zonta Foundation for Women Boards and International Nominating Committee.
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