Regional Director, Intermountain West

Final date to receive applications: 6 November 2026

Department: SPC-School Programs & Consulting

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: Regional Remote

Reporting To: Vice President, School Programs Implementation

Compensation: $89,000 - $119,000 / year

The Jed Foundation (JED) is a nonprofit that protects emotional health and prevents suicide among the nation’s teens and young adults. JED’s School Programs and Consulting (SPC) division partners with high schools, districts, colleges, and community-based organizations to assess student needs, build customized strategic plans, and provide sustained technical assistance that leads to measurable improvements in student mental health. The Regional Director, Intermountain West will serve as JED’s representative and relationship-builder across Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming;

three frontier states where geographic distance, workforce shortages, and fragmented local systems make coordinated, trusted regional infrastructure essential. This is a hybrid strategic and operational leadership role: the Director will build JED’s brand and network across the region, generate and cultivate new partnership and business opportunities, and help lead and support, in a matrixed capacity, the region’s Consultants delivering JED’s District Mental Health Initiative (DMHI) and other school-based programming, and represent the full breadth of JED’s work — schools and districts first, alongside JED’s programming for community-based organizations (CBOs) to education leaders, state agencies, coalitions, funders, and (as JED’s merger with AFSP progresses) AFSP chapters across the three states.

The Director generates leads for new school and community partnerships, opens doors, and builds the relationships that make new opportunities possible, then coordinates closely with JED’s School Partnerships team to convert those opportunities into signed engagements. Success in this role depends on deep relationship-building instincts, comfort operating as a public-facing ambassador, and the management skill to lead a small, geographically dispersed regional consulting team.

This is a remote, Intermountain West–based position with regular travel across Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming (approximately 40–50%) and periodic travel to JED’s NYC headquarters. Candidates should reside in the Mountain West Region

• Serve as JED’s primary face and voice across Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming, building JED’s name recognition and credibility among education and mental health leaders in a region where JED’s brand is still emerging.
• Build and steward relationships with key state and regional entities, including state Departments of Education, Departments of Health and Human Services, Tribal education authorities, and regional education associations.
• Cultivate relationships with community-based organizations (youth-serving, school-adjacent) and local nonprofits, and with philanthropic partners active in the region, including funders such as The Ortus Foundation.
• Represent JED in influential relationship-building spaces, including community coalitions, advisory boards, task forces, and public forums positioning JED as a convener that brings together local partners, CBOs, and funders around shared youth mental health goals, not only as a service provider.
• Serve as JED’s regional liaison to AFSP chapters across Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming as JED’s merger with AFSP advances, identifying opportunities for AFSP chapters to engage in and support JED’s regional work.

• Identify and cultivate new leads and…