Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. RE/MAX Cornertsone Realty is seeking a Senior Director of Strategy & Quality Practices for Positive Youth Development and Early Childhood Education. This role provides enterprise leadership for advancing strategy and quality practices across the YMCA network, overseeing national strategies designed to enhance local Y operational excellence and improve 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
Skills
- Bachelor's degree or higher required in a relevant field such as Business, or related disciplines required
- 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
- Advanced degree strongly preferred
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
- Work from anywhere within the continental U.S. workplace
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