Come and join a dynamic team as we deepen and expand our work to transform the child care sector! If you are a person who thrives on building and supporting a team, developing strategy, growing programs, and using your policy and business savvy to create stronger outcomes for child care providers and families, the role of Early Childhood Education Director is a match.

Strategy (30%)

• Strategy Refinement: Iterate and develop the future ECE strategy for 20 Degrees. The director will need to leverage knowledge and relationships with critical industry actors to forge new opportunities for 20 Degrees in positioning the organization for growth and impact.
• Advocacy and Policy: Ensure 20 Degrees is at the table in crafting new solutions for child care providers and families.
• Business Development: Assist with business development opportunities, as needed, in order to align with impact and quality goals.

Business Line Management and Evolution (40%)

• Shared Services Support: Lead team delivering ‘back-office’ shared services (‘back-office’ = finance, operations and HR functions) to child care providers. Expectation is that the Director will do some portion of the work and support their team in completing the service delivery.
• Tool evolution: Overseeing, collecting and integrating team and client feedback alongside data and materials (e.g., documents, impact data and financials), you would guide the continued standardization and replicability of the core products into tools, templates, and processes.
• Client relationship management: You would serve as the senior presence in most client-facing relationships (i.e., national, state and local funders) and would support the team in meeting and exceeding client expectations.

Team Management and Growth (20%)

• Lead and grow a tremendous team who are committed to impact, values and scarcity slaying through individual and department support, while also contributing to the overall culture and team alongside the two co-founders and executive team.
• Support team growth and development, leading talent recruitment needs as they arise and professional development opportunities for staff.

Team Contributions (10%)

• Contribute to the culture of 20 Degrees focused on scarcity slaying, field building, anti-racism, irreverent optimism, and truth telling.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications that Make You a Star

• 10+ years of ECE industry experience, either in senior-level policy, funding or practitioner leadership roles
• 6+ years of experience managing a team, with a strong preference for experience with virtual leadership.
• Strong understanding of ECE ecosystem, federal, state and local policy issues and players
• Demonstrated proficiency in, and knowledge of, back-office management, HR, operations and compliance policies, regulations and procedures
• Bachelor’s Degree in Education, Early Childhood Education, Public Health/ Administration, Business Administration, Education Administration or related field. MBA or other business-related advanced degrees preferred.
• A desire and ability to serve as a technical coach and set of extra hands when the work requires it.
• A passion for impact ranging from data analysis to storytelling.
• Experience with Google Suite, especially Google Slides, Sheets, and Docs and our key project management software, Monday.com or a similar project management software.
• Proven presentation and public speaking skills in both small and large group settings.
• Experience with creating systems while deploying services.
• Demonstrated ability and experience to self-manage and collaborate in a fast-paced, remote-based work culture.

What Else You’ll Bring to the Table to Enable Success

• Keen interest in better understanding child care business and financial models
• Policy expertise to connect our work with allies advancing better policies for providers and families
• Desire to be in a fast-paced, remote-first workplace that’s growing and still figuring out some of its processes.
• Demonstrated ability to coach team members learning and growing in technical skills.
• Openness to using and improving on the 20 Degrees way of doing things.
• Determination to find good answers, even when things aren’t super clear.
• Willingness to talk about social justice as it relates to 20 Degrees, child care, money, and current events. We’re all about learning and growing together.
• Experience working with a variety of child care modalities (in-home, center-based, etc).

Extra Kudos if You Bring

• Knowledge of innovative funding and financing for child care businesses
• Experience managing early childhood education shared services programs and models