Director of Program Operations

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** Mission
* * Children thrive when they spend their most critical years with dedicated, educated, trained, and well-compensated individuals. The New York Early Childhood Professional Development Institute leads the work to establish and implement an early childhood workforce system to ensure funding, standards and competencies, career development resources, qualifications and credentials, professional development (training and strengths-based coaching), and program quality assurance and improvement for individuals who work with young children throughout New York.

Housed at the City University of New York, the Institute is a fast-paced, dynamic public/private partnership that is committed to the early childhood workforce and program quality across New York State.  
** General Description
** QUALITYstarsNY seeks a strategic and meticulous Director of Program Operations with expertise in strengthening systems to support a dynamic team of remote and onsite staff. Reporting to the Senior Director QUALITYstarsNY, this role will ensure the QUALITYstarsNY team has the resources, standard operating procedures, and supports they need to consistently deliver on its mission.
** Duties and Responsibilities
** Program Operations
* Create, refine, and support internal systems for collaboration, communication, and project management, as well as support cross-team initiatives and projects, always striving for operational excellence and continuous improvement.
* Supervise and support the travel reimbursement process, refining systems and creating efficiencies where possible, with a particular eye toward the 60 QUALITYstarsNY field staff who travel multiple days per week to support our programs.
* Facilitate communication and support related to RF CUNY HR policies, in collaboration with the Institute central administration team and QUALITYstarsNY team leads.
* Lead operational planning and implementation for QUALITYstarsNY’s annual All Team Summit, four annual Regional Team Convenings, and other events as needed.
* Ensure access to sufficient technology & administrative resources for both onsite and remote staff, working closely with RF CUNY and the Institute central administration team.
* Support staff in engaging with our external rating platform vendor, as well as with organizing work streams related to in-house development of our data platform.
* Support communication and quality improvement teams in successful planning and implementation of over 50 onsite community engagement endeavors annually, including tabling, registering, responding to RFPs, and more, for conferences and similar endeavors.

Contracts and Purchasing
* Supervise and contribute to the distribution and expense tracking of various quality improvement funds for participating QUALITYstarsNY programs, with approximately $2M and 3,000+ transactions annually.
* Collaborate with the Institute’s Institute central administration team to ensure invoices are reviewed, reconciled, and approved in a timely manner.
* Communicate with vendors about the selection, renewal, contracting, and deliverables.
* Collaborate to forecast needs and align purchasing and workflows with organizational priorities.
* Strengthen systems for record-keeping and reporting, working closely with the Senior…