Chief Early Childhood Services Officer

Leads Kidango’s Early Learning, Mental Health, Inclusion, and Head Start programs, overseeing 500+ staff to deliver whole-child, whole-family services. Drives strategy, quality, and equity across all programs, ensuring compliance and excellence. Serves on the executive team to advance Kidango’s mission, values, and commitment to putting children and families first.

Leads the Early Learning, Mental Health, Early Intervention and Inclusion Services, Family Child Care Network, and Head Start teams, creating an excellent whole-child, whole-family fabric of services that empowers the potential of every child, their families and the staff who serve them. Works collaboratively across all departments to ensure hiring, onboarding, training, coaching, quality improvement, budget and fiscal management, support services, nutrition, and enrollment all work well together to provide an excellent experience for children, families and staff.

Ensures compliance with relevant regulations. As part of the executive team, Chief Early Childhood Services Officer is responsible for embodying Kidango values and plays a key role in a culture that promotes equity and centers children and families.

• Serve as a member of the executive leadership team and contribute to the execution of the organization’s overall vision, mission, values, and strategic goals.
• Collaborates with the chief team and others on the executive leadership team in the ongoing visioning, planning, decision‑making and implementation of our agency strategic plan.
• Leads Kidango’s center-based and family child care programs, behavioral health, early intervention and mental health consultation services to provide excellent, equitable, and empowering whole-child, whole-family early childhood experiences for the children and families we serve.
• Leads and empowers a staff of over 500 teachers, caregivers, center and regional directors, mental health clinicians, early interventionists, family advocates, program managers and others.
• Leads staff by collectively celebrating their successes, learning from their mistakes, and, when necessary, holding them accountable to meet a high standard of excellence and putting children first.
• Honors and exemplifies Kidango’s organizational values and values for children, including anti-bias and anti-racist, and helps to create an organizational culture that centers equity, well‑being, and builds relational trust.
• Collaborates closely with the chief team to collectively envision, plan, lead and manage Kidango.
• In collaboration with the executive team, oversees the identification and achievement of Kidango’s school/life readiness goals.
• Ensures all families have a positive, culturally-sensitive, trauma‑aware customer experience, build trusting relationships with their child’s teachers and other staff, receive desired support services and resources, have opportunities to learn about early childhood development, what their child is learning at Kidango, parenting, advocacy and leadership, and have opportunities to volunteer in their child’s classroom.
• Designs, selects, implements and evaluates a system of evidence-based early childhood curricula, including early language and literacy (including dual language immersion), math, social-emotional development, anti-bias education, and universal design for learning that is linked to teacher training and onboarding, coaching, and uses classroom- and child-level data to inform instruction and continuous quality improvement.
• Supports all classrooms in providing an inclusive environment for all children, including those with special needs.
• Collaborating with the research department, builds, selects and implements a practical and effective classroom, teacher and child data and evaluation system to inform continuous quality improvement and measure the attainment of school/life readiness goals.
• Leads Kidango’s Children’s Collaborative, which is the leadership of our early childhood services, to co design and continuously improve our integrated model of early learning, mental health consultation and early intervention and inclusion supports.
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