Director, Operations Administration

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 $101,000+ DOE.

The Director Operations Administration is responsible for leading the administrative and operational support functions that directly support Autism Services Clinical Services. This role centers associates as its primary customers, ensuring that administrative processes, systems, and operational support reduce burden, increase efficiency, and function reliably  all responsibilities, the position demonstrates a strong commitment to ESSC’s mission and values by supporting a high-quality, person-centered service environment.

• Leads the delivery of administrative and operational support for Autism Services associates, enabling consistent service delivery.
• Supervises and supports individual contributors and managers that support clinical operations, setting priorities, clarifying expectations, and ensuring high quality execution of administrative and operational work.
• Serves as the primary owner of administrative and operational issue resolution, analyzing root causes, making decisions, and ensuring timely, effective resolution of complex or cross functional challenges.
• Acts as a central connector across functions, facilitating information flow, reducing operational friction, and ensuring coordination without shifting administrative responsibility back to clinical leaders.
• Translates service line priorities and leadership direction into clear operational plans, timelines, and guidance, ensuring initiatives move from decision to execution smoothly.
• Leads the development, drafting, and rollout of operational policies, guidelines, memorandums, and administrative documentation, ensuring materials are clear, practical, and aligned with how work is performed.
• Owns and coordinates communication and plans for service line initiatives, ensuring leader communications are timely, consistent, and structured to support understanding, adoption, and execution by associates.
• Provides direct operations management and administrative support to the Clinical Operations team, including preparation, prioritization, alignment, and tracking of operational commitments.
• Uses operational data, stakeholder feedback, and observation to identify inefficiencies, improve administrative systems, and continuously strengthen how operational support is delivered.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, healthcare administration, public administration, operations, or a related field required. Master’s degree preferred.
• Project management coursework or certification preferred.

• Minimum of seven (7) years of progressive experience in administrative, operational, or service line support roles within healthcare, behavioral health, human services, or a similarly complex, regulated environment.
• Minimum of three (3) years' experience leading and supporting operational or administrative teams, including direct supervision of individual contributors and/or managers.
• Proven experience managing day to day administrative execution, resolving operational issues, and supporting service delivery in multi-site or distributed service models.
• Experience coordinating operational initiatives, rollouts, or change efforts, including development of operational documentation, communication planning, and follow through to support adoption.
• Experience preparing and using operational data, reports, and performance metrics to inform leadership decision making and monitor departmental or service line performance.
• Experience working closely with senior leaders to support execution, alignment, and operational follow through, serving as a trusted operational and administrative partner.

Expected number of direct reports: Up to 8; expected to manage leadership…