Foster America

Vice President

• Drive Execution: Lead the execution and continuous refinement of Foster America's full program portfolio, ensuring efforts impactfully advance our strategy
• Operationalize Innovation: Translate strategic priorities into clear programmatic approaches, tools, and ways of working that teams can execute with both consistency and contextual judgment
• Co-Design: Ensure our work integrates those with lived child welfare experience as essential co-creators, collaborators, and decision-makers alongside public sector and community leaders
• Performance & Accountability: Set clear direction, build accountability structures, and develop measurement approaches to create conditions for high performance across a diverse portfolio
• Growth-Oriented Coaching: Invest in the development of team members, helping them learn and operate at their highest potential
• Strategic Thought Partnership: Stay close to the work, contributing to the scope and content of deliverables while entrusting teams to drive execution
• Partnership Strategy & Lifecycle: Oversee the end-to-end partnership lifecycle—from initial exploration and site assessment to contract negotiation and renewal—ensuring engagements are structured for impact
• External Influence: Identify and cultivate trusting relationships with state and county child welfare directors, community leaders, and national collaborators in jurisdictions where conditions for change are ripe
• Revenue Generation: Secure grants and contract agreements that support long-term financial sustainability
• Executive Collaboration: Serve on Foster America's executive leadership team, partnering closely with the Executive Director, three other executives, and the governing board on strategy, field positioning, and organizational health
• Development Alignment: Collaborate with the Development and Communications teams to ensure programmatic insight is captured in external narratives and messaging, extending the organization's influence and impact
• Operational Partnership: Partner with Finance and Operations on personnel matters, annual planning, technology, and budget — contributing to organizational systems that shape how the team works and grows

Vice President of Programs