Vice President, Educational Partnerships and Business Development

Role Overview

• Source, design, refine and execute enterprise level educational/youth development partnership and business development strategies that are relevant and scalable across the network.
• Serve as a catalyst for positioning Ys as trusted community and school partners that support youth success and family engagement.
• Build and advance growth strategy to expand Y impact and create sustainable revenue models.
• Align with industry standards, federal and state priorities, and funding expectations to optimize opportunities and support network wide adoption and sustainability.
• Endorse leading practices around local Y management and engagement with educational/youth development experts – including go to market approach, operating models, partnership lifecycle management, MOU execution and renewal and performance expectations and quality controls to launch and scale partnerships efficiently and consistently.
• Partner with practice leadership, service delivery and emerging opportunities to align strategy, process, innovation, resource development and activation.
• Develop infrastructure across the ecosystem to support educational/youth development partnerships at scale.
• Develop and manage department budget, ensuring cost-effectiveness and strong ROI.
• Collaborate internally at YUSA to deliver integrated seamless support to local Ys.
• Engage with external consultants to advance and accelerate the work.
• Build partnerships with school districts, youth development experts, and educational stakeholders to drive new revenue streams.
• Maintain and leverage CEO relationships for advocacy, influence and endorsement.
• Establish metrics to measure effectiveness, participation, and impact of services provided to the network; use data and insights to drive continuous quality improvement.
• Ensure services demonstrate clear value toward local Y organizational excellence and financial sustainability.
• Partner across YUSA to ensure we are mitigating risk and exposure to YUSA as well as our local Ys.
• Stay abreast of emerging issues that may impact the Y network.

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 functional expertise and functional thought leadership
• Oversees a department or function
• Highly strategic and operational decision-making authority
• Mid
• to long-term strategic planning for department or functional area
• Internal and external communications, executive level, high influence on department vision and strategy
• Management-level autonomy; no daily supervision from manager; goal achievement is typically accomplished through performance of direct and/or indirect reports

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