Associate Director, Incident Response

Overview

POSITION TITLE: Associate Director, Incident Response

REPORTS TO: Director, Incident Response

SUPERVISION EXERCISED: N/A

LOCATION: Anywhere ADL has an office

Grade/Class: Grade F, Exempt, PSA-Eligible

ABOUT THE ORGANIZATION:

ADL is the leading anti-hate organization in the world. Founded in 1913, its timeless mission is “to stop the defamation of the Jewish people and to secure justice and fair treatment to all.” Today, ADL continues to fight all forms of antisemitism and bias, using innovation and partnerships to drive impact. A global leader in combating antisemitism, countering extremism and battling bigotry wherever and whenever it happens, ADL works to protect democracy and ensure a just and inclusive society for all.

PRIMARY FUNCTION:

The Associate Director, Incident Response (IR) is responsible for leading key portfolios within ADL’s centralized IR operations, ensuring effective triage, stakeholder engagement, and data-driven response strategies. This role will specialize in some of the following areas: Extremism, Technology.

Responsibilities

Primary:

• Lead cross-functional incident response efforts within assigned portfolio, ensuring effective triage, management, documentation, and stakeholder coordination.
• Serve as a liaison and subject matter expert, collaborating with key internal and external partners, including field and CSC teams, community partners, and advocacy groups.
• Maintain current IR Team AI workflows, assistants, and technology initiatives.
• Manage data analysis and reporting daily operations and special initiatives, ensuring accurate tracking of trends, which may include but not limited to antisemitism, extremism, and/or K-12 and campus issues.
• In coordination with internal subject matter experts and operations teams, employ a data driven approach and develop best practices for incident and crisis response.
• Coordinate incident response national initiatives, ensuring appropriate escalation of incidents to policy teams, legal counsel, or law enforcement and extremism staff.

Secondary:

• Develop and implement knowledge management initiatives to ensure standardized processes across all parts of incident response portfolio.
• Represent the IR team in internal forums, trainings, and strategic partnership meetings.
• Support the development of new reporting mechanisms, including AI tools, digital outreach, and incident documentation systems.
• Contribute to team training and onboarding efforts, ensuring standardized incident response protocols.
• Assist in crisis coordination and all-hands on deck crisis response efforts

Qualifications

Skills:  

• Proficiency in developing and executing incident response strategies, leading crisis communications and management, and full-cycle management of incidents
• Proficiency in AI workflows, systems, assistants, and skill building.
• Strong background in independent and collaborative work in a fast-paced and dynamic environment
• Stakeholder and partner relationship management
• Experience with crisis and high impact incident communications and response
• Cross-functional collaboration with internal and external partners
• Data analysis and reporting on incident trends in assigned portfolio

Work Experience:  

• The ideal candidate has several years’ experience of incident response, advocacy, education policy, communications, or extremism research with a demonstrable increase in responsibility managing and collaborating with cross-functional teams, projects and partnerships.

Education:  

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field (e.g., Criminal Justice, Public Administration, Communications) or related field, or equivalent experience required.

Work Environment:

• ADL is a hybrid environment; this role will require 3 days in the office.

Compensation:

• This position has a salary range of $70,000 to $85,000. This salary range is reflective of a position based in New York, New York. Please note that actual salaries are commensurate with experience and reflect the budget for a given position, and since ADL has a location-based compensation structure, there may be a different range for candidates in other locations. For an overview of our total rewards package, please visit https://www.adl.org/about/careers.

ADL aims to create a working environment where every employee can thrive professionally.  Our mission-driven work is best accomplished in an environment that supports belonging. ADL values a diverse workplace and strongly encourages people of all races, religions, nationalities, genders, LGBTQ+ individuals, people with disabilities, and veterans to apply. ADL is an equal opportunity employer. Recruitment, hiring, promotions and other terms, conditions and privileges of employment shall be maintained in a manner which does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, creed, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression, marital status, physical or mental disability, veteran status, or military status, or in violation of any applicable Federal, state or local laws.  

ADL will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation to support the interview process, please contact the People & Culture department at [email protected].  

ADL will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of the Fair Credit Reporting Act, and all other applicable State, Local, and Federal laws.

The information in this job description indicates the general nature and level of work expected of employees in this classification. It is not designed to contain, or be interpreted as, a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, qualifications and objectives required of employees assigned to this job, nor is it to be interpreted as a contract for employment.