Overview

The Senior Director of Strategy & Quality Practices, Positive Youth Development and Early Childhood Education provides enterprise leadership for advancing strategy, quality practices, and experience across the YMCA network. This role oversees a portfolio of national strategies and services designed to strengthen local Y operational excellence, elevate consistency and quality, and improve member and customer outcomes. In addition to leading early childhood education strategy and quality activation, the Senior Director directly supervises multiple Directors of Strategy and Quality Practices and serves as a senior connector between local Ys, service delivery partners, and Y-USA enterprise teams. This position operates as a system leader-shaping strategy, stewarding adoption, guiding continuous improvement, and building capacity across the Movement to support sustainability, relevancy, and impact.

Responsibilities

Enterprise Strategy & Network Leadership

• 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.

People Leadership & Portfolio Oversight

• 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.

Early Childhood Education Strategy & Quality Practices

• 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.

Partnerships, Influence & System Alignment

• 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.

Qualifications

A successful candidate will possess a majority of the following professional and personal attributes and competencies:

• 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

We offer a full benefits package including medical, dental, vision, defined benefit plan (retirement savings), defined contribution plan (403(b) plan, life and disability insurances, technology stipend, and generous paid time off, all in a work from anywhere within the continental U.S. workplace. Posted Salary Range USD $144,000.00 - USD $177,000.00 /Yr.