National Chapter ManagerChildren's Health Defense

Department Overview:

CHD Advocacy Department has a focus on supporting and growing our chapters efforts. Chapters are comprised of volunteers that are passionate about furthering the mission of Children’s Health Defense and motivated to make a difference in their local communities. The network of CHD chapters provides a powerful, unified voice for advocates to enhance our collective ability to support and strengthen the views of our issues, disseminate vitally needed educational information, and improve law and judicial policy.

Position Overview:

The National Chapter Manager (NCM) will work with all chapter leaders and community coordinators to ensure that their work will advance CHD’s vision and mission, and goals for that locality. The NCM will help to ensure that state chapter leaders are fulfilling chapter requirements including oversight of the use of CHD’s trademark, financial accounting, member lists and reporting on state activities. The NCM manages all state chapter leaders to create cohesion in infrastructure, website, communications, lawsuits, events, projects, fundraising, accounting and taxes in order to maximize cohesion and collaboration and minimize confusion and competition.  

• Be the point person between CHD National and all chapters/state coordinators. Provide guidance on state priorities and consultation and coordination to state and international CHD chapters on a variety of needs: chapter rules, advocacy requirements, website information, emails/letters/correspondence, fundraising, upcoming events, legislative and litigation oversight, social media oversight and more

• Provide trainings, templates and best practices checklists for chapters on various chapter activities which can include all of the above

• Be the liaison between chapter volunteers and tax consultants so CHD can properly file chapter taxes

• Support chapter leaders to enact needed projects swiftly by overseeing the National distribution of funds to chapters based on a checklist approval process for, advocacy, branding/style, education and more

• Conduct weekly/monthly coordination calls with state chapters and coordinators to ensure alignment of CHD vision, mission, goals and strategies

• Manage all Chapter legal documents and paperwork including budgets, new chapter/coordinator paperwork, and ensure their safe keeping in a CHD Chapter dropbox 

• Draft “brief update” paragraph each month for the board report 

• Work with chapters and affiliated groups on federal policy matters to have impact beyond the individual states chapters are in

• Ensure that Chapter leaders(s):

  • Provide information to CHD about the situation in the state, including grassroots and legislative initiatives through monthly reports

  • Attend CHD state chapter meetings when appropriate

  • Propose projects  as needed

  • Grow chapter and National membership 

  • Create or work with county-level groups in home state

  • Coordinate with other health freedom groups in the state

  • Attend CHD state coordinator training and chapter coordinator calls/meetings

  • Dsclose any potential conflicts of interest with other advocacy or educational organizations and discuss any conflicts that may arise

  • Manage social media pages and make suggestions/submissions for updating website 

• Attend meetings and events as required

• Respond to calls, emails and text communications in a timely manner

• Meet with Community Coordinators once a month and maintain communication to help assist in their growth and development

• Manages CHD Wrap Up email list and content

• Attend meetings and events as required

• Respond to calls, emails and text communications in a timely manner

• All other duties as assigned

Supervisory Duties:

• Recruits, interviews, hires and trains new staff in the department

• Oversees the daily workflow of the department

• Develops staff, provide constructive and timely performance evaluations and regular feedback to direct reports

• Handles performance corrections as needed in accordance with company policy

• Associates Degree or equivalent experience in administration or related field

• 2+ years working in an administrative role

• Must have experience advocating for medical freedom in the past 5 years

• Excellent written and verbal communications skills

• Team player

• Skilled at multitasking in a fast-paced environment

• Proficient in standard office software: MS Office, PPT, G-Suites

• Excellent organizational skills

Children’s Health Defense (CHD) is a litigation advocacy organization dedicated to protecting child health, ending the epidemic of children’s chronic health conditions by eliminating harmful environmental exposures, holding those responsible accountable, and establishing safeguards. Guided by science, we are tackling big pharma, holding big industry accountable at an unprecedented scale, and establishing safeguards to make a safer environment for children. We share our discoveries about harmful environmental exposures with the public and nurture a culture of leadership in communities. Our programs and resources cultivate science literacy and build a foundation of collaborative problem-solving among our next generation of leaders, scientists, physicians, citizens, and stewards. Working both nationally and internationally, our collaborative approach engages local communities, governments, the private sector, and other partners.