Senior Director of Strategy & Quality Practices, Positive Youth Development, Early Childhood Education
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Senior Director overseeing strategy and quality practices within YMCA network for early childhood education. Driving innovative initiatives with a focus on operational excellence and member outcomes.
Responsibilities:
- Provide senior leadership for early childhood education strategy, quality practices, and initiatives that advance Y-USA organizational priorities and strengthen local Ys.
- Translate national strategy and enterprise direction into clear, actionable frameworks, tools, and activation supports for local Ys, alliances, and service delivery partners.
- Guide the evolution of leading practices to ensure they are practical, scalable, and responsive to changing local Y and community needs.
- Directly supervise and coach multiple Directors of Strategy and Quality Practices, ensuring clarity of role, alignment of workplans, and accountability for outcomes.
- Foster a high performing, collaborative team culture rooted in achievement, relationships, and belonging.
- Provide strategic oversight across a portfolio of initiatives, ensuring prioritization, integration, and efficient use of resources.
- Lead systemwide adoption and integration of leading practices, tools, products, and solutions.
- Analyze data, signals, and industry trends to inform continuous quality improvement and innovation.
- Strengthen alignment between Y-USA strategies, alliances, service delivery partners, and enterprise shared services.
- Cultivate relationships with internal and external partners to advance innovation, policy alignment, and mission‑aligned outcomes.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree or higher required in a relevant field such as Business, or related disciplines required
- Advanced degree strongly preferred.
- Minimum of 12 years of experience required
- Deep and expert functional skills
- Deep and expert industry knowledge and experience
- Expert managerial skills
- Oversees multiple teams or functions
- Ownership of short to mid-term execution of functional strategy and the operational direction
- Internal and external communications, executive level, high influence on dept. and organization
- Minimal supervision from manager, manages an area or team leads within a function/department
Benefits:
- medical
- dental
- vision
- defined benefit plan (retirement savings)
- defined contribution plan (403(b) plan)
- life and disability insurances
- technology stipend
- generous paid time off
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