Senior Director of Strategy & Quality Practices, Positive Youth Development, Early Childhood Education

Job Description:

• 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