Vice President of Early Learning; Part-time

Vice President of Early Learning (Part-time)

Warren Village, Denver Metro

Organization type:
Nonprofit

Type of role:
Part-time

Job Category:
Executive

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

Summary/objective:
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 community.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

• 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…