Vice President of Early Learning (Part-time)

Vice President of Early Learning

The fractional (.5 FTE) Vice President of Early Learning leads, aligns, and elevates Warren Village Early Learning programs. This executive leader is responsible for ensuring high-quality educational outcomes for children, strengthening operational effectiveness, building a high-performing workforce, and advancing policy and advocacy efforts that support a more robust, equitable, and fiscally sustainable early childhood system. Serving as both a systems leader and operational integrator, the Vice President of Early Learning ensures that instructional practice, staffing, compliance, and organizational systems are aligned to deliver consistent, high-quality outcomes across all sites. This role directly supervises Early Learning Center Directors and is accountable for program performance, leadership effectiveness, and continuous improvement.

As a member of the Executive Leadership Team, the Vice President of Early Learning plays a critical role in shaping organizational strategy representing Early Learning across the organization. The role leads the development and execution of a cohesive ELC strategy aligned with organizational goals, growth priorities, and long-term sustainability. This position provides strategic counsel to the CEO on early learning operational, workforce, and programmatic risks and opportunities.

At Warren Village, we uphold organizational values of accountability, collaboration, empowerment, excellence, inclusion, and integrity. We agree to engage our work together with honesty and transparency, clear decision-making, continuous learning and improvement, a commitment to repair, community building, and collective growth and well-being. We recognize that our backgrounds are broad, and our talents are many, from different lived experiences. We value and leverage these differences to support and engage our communities.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

Program Quality and Instructional Support

• Establish and lead an organization-wide instructional vision grounded in developmentally appropriate, culturally responsive, and high-quality practices.
• Design and implement a comprehensive instructional framework that supports rigorous, authentic, and personalized learning experiences.
• Drive continuous quality improvement through observation, coaching, and evaluation systems to monitor and drive key performance indicators around enrollment, staffing stability, and quality outcomes.
• Ensure consistent implementation of curriculum, assessment, policy/procedures, and classroom practices, operations, staff support/accountability, and family engagement
• Lead the development and scaling of innovative approaches to teaching and learning, balancing autonomy and accountability to ensure consistent outcomes across sites.
• Act as a thought partner to Center leadership around curriculum, classroom quality, & whole-child development by working alongside directors to review outcomes data, strengthen teaching practices, and support meaningful growth for children, families and teaching staff.
• Ensure full compliance with state licensing, regulatory requirements, and program standards.
• Ensure site leaders are equipped to lead both instructional quality and operational excellence and focus on classroom practice, staff support, and family engagement.
• Strengthen accountability systems for site leadership, particularly related to compliance and program operations.
• Engage in problem-solving, prioritization, and conflict resolution with staff and families when requested by site leadership.
• Address challenges and barriers that prevent site leaders from focusing on instructional leadership and program quality, including clear decision-making and streamlined internal processes to reduce delays and inefficiencies across sites.
• Assists with site leadership extended vacancies or shortages as needed.

Workforce Development & Talent Strategy

• Lead innovative strategies to recruit, hire, and retain high-quality early childhood educators and leaders that reflects the community while increasing overall qualifications, professional development systems and professional expectations over time.
• Collaborate with site leadership to address structural workforce challenges that impact retention, performance, and program consistency with strengthened onboarding, coaching and other innovative approaches.

Partnership Development & External Alignment

• Lead the development of strategic early learning partnerships to strengthen program quality, workforce development, and sustainability, including:
• Staff recruitment, training, and retention pipelines
• Curriculum, assessment, and evaluation systems
• Shared services and substitute staffing models
• Expand partnerships that increase organizational capacity and support long-term program success.

Policy & Systems Leadership

• Represent Warren Village, in partnership with and alongside the President & CEO, in local and state early childhood policy conversations, task forces, and partnerships.
• Contribute to the development and advancement of organizational policy and advocacy strategies.
• Support efforts that strengthen funding alignment, workforce systems, and program sustainability.
• Provide insight on emerging policy developments and related internal implications.

Competencies:

• Deep knowledge of early childhood systems, licensing, and quality frameworks
• Strong instructional leadership and understanding of child development and effective teaching practices
• Proven ability to align systems, staffing, and operations to achieve program outcomes
• Experience leading organizational change and systems improvement
• Strong communication, collaboration, and relationship-building skills
• Demonstrated ability to develop leaders and build high-performing teams
• Commitment to equity, inclusion, and culturally responsive practice

Minimum Qualifications and/or Education:

• Advanced degree (Masters required, PhD / Ed.D. preferred) in Early Childhood Education, Educational Leadership, or related field
• 10+ years of leadership experience in early childhood systems, including multi-site or program oversight
• Demonstrated experience supervising and developing leaders
• Experience working across systems (program, policy, workforce, or funding)

Work Environment:

The working environment is that of a typical office setting. The employee is occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts with regards to filing cabinets, printers, and computers, etc. The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet to moderate.

Physical Demands:

While performing the essential functions of this position, the employee is regularly required to remain in a stationary position for 60% while working at a computer for extended periods. The employee frequently operates a computer and other standard office equipment, including a keyboard, mouse, telephone, copier, and printer. The employee occasionally moves throughout the office to attend meetings, retrieve files, or access office equipment. The employee must frequently communicate with others verbally and in writing and be able to exchange accurate information. The employee must also be able to view and interpret information on computer screens and written documents at close range. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the position.

Travel Required: No Yes (within metro-Denver)

Salary & Benefits: Hiring Range: $45.06 to $57.69 DOE and licensure (Full salary range up to $57.69 for long-tenured staff currently in position or other exceptional circumstances.)

Attractive benefits package for PTO and Holiday pay. Colorado Healthy Families and Workplace Act sick leave, 403b participation and discounted Early Learning Childcare services available.