Senior Director of Strategy & Quality Practices, Positive Youth Development, Early Childhood Ed[...]

• 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

ATS Optimization Keywords

Hard Skills

• strategic oversight
• data analysis
• quality improvement
• operational direction
• functional strategy execution
• team management
• coaching
• performance management
• initiative prioritization
• resource integration

Soft Skills

• leadership
• collaboration
• relationship building
• communication
• accountability
• innovation
• adaptability
• influence
• team culture development
• problem-solving

Certifications & Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree
• Advanced degree

Industry Keywords

• early childhood education
• Y-USA
• quality practices
• service delivery
• community needs
• strategic alignment
• policy alignment
• functional skills
• industry trends
• executive level communication