Sr Regional VP, Clinical Workforce Strategy (BCBA Required

Easterseals Southern California transforms lives every day. For over a century, Easterseals has championed inclusion and independence—delivering essential services like early childhood programs, autism services, employment and independent living support to more than 29,000 people each year. Through advocacy and education, we break barriers and create opportunities for the one-in-four Americans with disabilities.

Starting salary $133,000+ DOE.

The Senior Regional VP (SRVP), Training & Development serves as the senior service-line leader responsible for establishing and executing a comprehensive Training & Development strategy for Autism Services. This role owns the vision, roadmap, and operating model for training and professional development across clinical, operational, and support staff, ensuring training efforts are cohesive, scalable, and aligned with the evolving needs of Autism Services and broader organizational priorities.

This position provides strategic oversight for the full training lifecycle, including new hire onboarding, ongoing training, and long‑term development. The role integrates training design, delivery systems, communication, and evaluation to ensure training is effective, sustainable, and consistently implemented across the enterprise. In all responsibilities, the position demonstrates a strong commitment to ESSC’s mission and values by supporting a high-quality, person-centered service environment.

• Develops and leads a long-term learning and development strategy for Autism Services, aligning onboarding, ongoing learning, professional development, and workforce capability with service line priorities, growth, and future needs while informing executive decision-making and long-range planning.
• Establishes a service line–wide framework that differentiates role readiness training from professional and leadership development, ensuring associates perform effectively in their current roles while building mastery, leadership capability, and readiness for advancement through a clearly defined talent pipeline.
• Builds, leads, and scales a high-performing learning organization, including direct leadership and supervision of senior training leaders, ensuring clear structure, accountability, and consistent execution across departments and regions with a strong focus on succession readiness and leader capability.
• Establishes and governs standards for how learning is designed, delivered, and reinforced across Autism Services, overseeing the development and evolution of cohesive, evidence-informed curricula, instructional materials, and learning pathways that are scalable and consistent across roles and departments and aligned to enterprise standards.
• Evaluates, selects, and advances learning technologies and infrastructure, including LMS platforms, digital learning tools, instructional design approaches, and SOP frameworks, to enhance accessibility, consistency, and effectiveness at scale.
• Defines and leads a comprehensive framework for measuring learning quality and effectiveness, evaluating skill acquisition, readiness, and performance through application-based assessments, in-field observations, and performance data, and using those insights to continuously refine content, delivery methods, pacing, and reinforcement strategies and to inform leadership reporting and operational decisions.
• Establishes clear learning outcomes tied to service excellence, staff retention, and confidence in role, ensuring learning efforts support high quality service delivery, reduce preventable turnover, and build associate competence and confidence in performing their jobs while advancing organizational performance.
• Partners cross-functionally with enterprise and service line leaders to align learning priorities, support organizational initiatives and change efforts, and ensure consistent adoption of learning standards and enterprise expectations.
• Regularly evaluates organizational structure, capacity, and team performance, adjusting resources and team composition to meet evolving service line needs and support sustainable growth.
• Maintains deep awareness of industry…