For employees who live in the Washington, DC Metro area, the salary range for this position is $128,000 - $192,000 annually. Typically, new hires are brought into the organization at a salary range between the minimum and midpoint, depending on qualifications, internal equity, and the budgeted salary for the role.
Additional Information:
Hybrid/Remote is allowed.
Primary Purpose
The Director, Membership is the owner of NEI’s membership strategy, systems, and performance. This role is accountable for defining, protecting, and evolving NEI’s member value proposition; ensuring excellence and discipline in membership operations; and providing executive leadership with timely, credible intelligence on membership health, risks, and opportunities.
The Director sets standards for member engagement, data integrity, and service delivery across the organization, holds the membership function accountable for measurable outcomes, and serves as a trusted advisor to the Executive Leadership Team on membership growth, retention, revenue stability, and long-term sustainability.
Own and continuously refine NEI’s membership strategy, including recruitment, retention, engagement, and value articulation.
Serve as a senior advisor to the Executive Leadership Team on membership performance, member sentiment, market shifts, and emerging risks and opportunities.
Establish and enforce organization-wide standards for member engagement, responsiveness, and use of membership data.
Proactively identify threats to member value or membership revenue and elevate risks with clear recommendations for action.
Membership Growth, Retention & Revenue
Set and execute strategies to achieve net membership growth, high retention, and long-term financial stability.
Lead the evolution of NEI’s dues model to reflect industry changes, new markets, and member expectations.
Define and assess member value propositions; propose and implement enhancements to benefits, services, and engagement models.
Monitor member and market trends affecting NEI’s financial and strategic position and develop mitigation or growth strategies accordingly.
Executive Reporting & Decision Intelligence
Produce clear, decision-ready membership dashboards and reports for ELT and senior leadership, translating data into actionable insights.
The Nuclear Energy Institute is the policy organization of the nuclear technologies industry, based in Washington, D.C.NEI has hundreds of members and, with their involvement, develops policy on key legislative and regulatory issues affecting the industry. NEI was founded in 1994 from the merger of several nuclear energy industry organizations, the oldest of which was created in 1953.NEI's members include companies that own or operate nuclear power plants, reactor designers and advanced technology companies, architect and engineering firms, fuel suppliers and service companies, consulting services and manufacturing companies, companies involved in nuclear medicine and nuclear industrial applications, radionuclide and radiopharmaceutical companies, universities and research laboratories, law firms, labor unions and international electric utilities.
