Sr. Director, Strategic Consulting; Team

Job Category: Non-Field Office

Requisition Number: SRDIR
002069

• Posted :
  July 1, 2026
• Full-Time
• Remote

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Location:

Remote-Location Negotiable, WA 00000, USA

Casey Family Programs, an Equal Opportunity Employer, is the nation’s largest operating foundation focused on safely reducing the need for foster care and building Communities of Hope for children and families across America. Founded in 1966, Casey Family Programs works in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, two territories, and tribal nations to influence long‑lasting improvements to the safety and success of children, families and the communities where they live.

Casey Family Programs values diversity, equity, inclusion, anti‑racism, anti‑discrimination, and respect for individuals in the workplace. We encourage candidates with diverse lived experience and perspectives to apply.

Job Summary:

The Sr. Director - Strategic Consulting working with the Managing Director – Strategic Consulting – Systems Improvement at Casey Family Programs proactively seeks ways to assess and support child welfare systems improvement and sets direction for the work in specific states and jurisdictions. The purpose of this position and the efforts it directs is to create system change and to build capacity for systems to strengthen families and communities in order to improve the safety, permanency and well-being of children and to influence the safe reduction of the number of children in foster care and reinvestment of resources consistent with goals.

• Works with Managing Director to coordinate efforts internally and with external collaborators (to include experts, vendors, groups or teams) to assist the child welfare systems – inclusive of the five sectors of government, philanthropy, non‑profit, civic, and business sectors – to prevent child maltreatment and safely reduce the foster care population, while improving the lives for youth and families who are in or would have entered foster care.
• Works with the Managing Director – Strategic Consulting in influencing child welfare practice, policies and laws on a local, state and national level to build strengths and achieve broad wide system impact.
• Responsible for designing and operationalizing assigned projects, organizational sub‑objectives and outcomes in assigned jurisdictions, inclusive of risk management, stakeholder management, measurement of progress, and communication.
• Acts proactively and in planning and tracking work efforts, agreements and projects. Works with other Casey units to appropriately manage contract and regulatory compliance, reporting, and appropriate financial stewardship. Provides effective updates to Senior Management and ensures progress toward goals according to deadlines.
• Provides expertise internally and externally regarding child welfare systems change, and facilitates the implementation of data driven, outcome focused, and evidence informed strategies to support child welfare stakeholders across the five sectors in their efforts to improve child welfare outcomes.
• Represents Casey in state, local and national work groups, meetings and conferences.
• Engages with state and local community partners to strengthen prevention efforts and leverage resources of the multi‑systems affecting youth and families.
• Develops and manages relationships resulting in regular invitations to work with specific and influential state, county child welfare agency, judicial and legislative leaders to help resolve issues of concern with the development of sound recommendations and implementation of plans in support of Casey's goals.
• Develops and communicates effective methods which assist child welfare systems in reinvestment strategies which support and strengthen families.
• Responsible for continuous quality improvement within Strategic Consulting – Systems Improvement. Knowledgeable of broad wide system impact strategies within child welfare systems.
• Directly provides technical assistance leveraging own expertise in system reform, financing, practice, workforce management, policy and legislative affairs.
• Facilitates peer shared learning opportunities among child welfare and other systems and…