Senior Director of Programs

For more than 25 years, Grail Family Services (GFS) has been the heart of family resources, child care, and early learning in the historic Mayfair neighborhood of East San Jose. We advance the belief that services like high quality child care can transform lives and communities. GFS partners with families, schools, and communities to promote children's success and well-being. We serve a community where more than 50% of local students are not reading at grade level by 3rd grade.

Through our programs and family engagement efforts, we inspire lifelong learning and support the intellectual, creative, social, emotional, and physical development of every child. We believe strong partnerships with parents are key to success. We pair data with lived experience, co‑designing solutions with families and sharing what works to strengthen early learning locally and beyond.

Through our First 5 Family Resource Center, we deliver information and referrals, coordinate services in partnership with members of the Si Se Puede Collective, and provide parenting workshops with onsite child enrichment to our local community. GFS has also designed and implemented innovative, family-focused programming that are research based, such as our Family Math Program (in partnership with Stanford University’s DREME Network and NYU) and the Building Blocks of Parenting™ (BBP) App (in collaboration with the Santa Clara County Office of Education and FIRST 5 Santa Clara County).

We continue to be a leader in the early childhood education and child care innovation space and are committed to bring this innovation to East San Jose. Learn more family services.org.

The Sí Se Puede Collective (SSPC) is comprised of five anchor organizations in East San José’s Mayfair neighborhood—Amigos de Guadalupe, Grail Family Services, the School of Arts and Culture at MHP, SOMOS Mayfair, and Veggielution. Together, we serve low-income families through coordinated services, advocacy, and community engagement, grounded in the belief that collective action creates deeper impact.

The vision of the SSPC is for a Mayfair community that is rooted and thriving, where resilient families have confidence in their gifts, choices and dreams. The mission of the SSPC is to leverage the collective’s creativity, services and advocacy to create opportunities and access to basic needs, education, literacy, and community engagement.

• Uplifting Mayfair’s cultural identity and sense of belonging
• Supporting early learning and student success
• Helping youth navigate the world with cultural confidence
• Coordinating family-centered services and referrals
• Advancing community-led advocacy and systems change
• Promoting innovative development without displacement
• Implementing a blueprint for transformation in historic East San Jose
• Promote smart development without displacement in the Mayfair community

Reporting to the Deputy Director and collaborating with the Senior Leadership Team (including the Directors of Development, Finance, Operations & HR, and Policy & Communications), the Director of Programs oversees the strategic design, implementation, management, and evaluation of all GFS programs and initiatives.

You will guide strategy and execution for a diverse portfolio, including:

• State and federally funded preschools
• Full-day toddler daycare center
• Family Child Care Home Education Network (FCCHEN)
• First 5-Family Resource Center and community programs
• School-based programs
• Collaborations with the Sí Se Puede Collective

As a key thought partner to the Executive and Deputy Directors, this leader will help operationalize GFS’s role as a demonstration…