Senior Director of Family & Community Impact

Family Nurturing; Massachusetts; Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 106,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Paid time off

Professional development

Collaborative culture

Job summary

Family Nurturing Center of Massachusetts is seeking a Senior Director of Family & Community Programs to provide strategic and operational leadership across our family engagement, early childhood, coalition, and community-based programs. This role reports to the Executive Director and leads multiple site teams.

You will supervise program managers, manage budgets, build partnerships, and advance equitable, culturally responsive services that strengthen children and families.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Social Work, Education, Human Development, Public Administration, Nonprofit Management, Community Development, Public Health, or a closely related field.
• Seven or more years of progressively responsible leadership experience in family support, community engagement, early childhood, human services, or a related field, including experience leading managers and multidisciplinary teams.
• Demonstrated experience providing strategic and operational oversight of complex, multisite or community-based programs.
• Strong experience supervising, coaching, and developing managers and staff while establishing clear accountability and building team capacity.
• Experience managing program budgets, grants, contracts, compliance requirements, and performance expectations.
• Experience building and sustaining partnerships with public agencies, funders, community organizations, and other external stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to contribute to organizational strategy, change management, crossfunctional leadership, and senior-level decision-making.
• Strong communication, facilitation, relationship-building, financial management, and organizational leadership skills.
• Demonstrated commitment to equity, inclusion, trauma-informed practice, family engagement, and community-centered approaches.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic leadership and oversight for the Family & Community Programs division across multiple sites.
• Supervise, coach, and develop program managers and site leaders with clear expectations and accountability.
• Monitor performance, staffing, service delivery, and operations; drive improvements to systems and capacity.
• Develop long-term strategies for growth, redesign, integration, or sunsetting based on community needs and funding.
• Participate as a member of the Executive Leadership Team in strategic planning and organizational initiatives.
• Oversee budgets, forecasting, expenditure monitoring, staffing allocations, and variance analysis.
• Build and sustain partnerships with funders and community organizations to expand access and impact.

Skills

Leadership experience

Multisite oversight

Budget management

Partnership development

Strategic planning

Communication skills

Equity & inclusion

Staff development

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Master’s degree (preferred)

Job description

Family Nurturing Center of Massachusetts is seeking a Senior Director of Family & Community Programs to provide strategic and operational leadership across our family engagement, early childhood, coalition, and community-based programs. This role reports to the Executive Director and leads multiple site teams.

You will supervise program managers, manage budgets, build partnerships, and advance equitable, culturally responsive services that strengthen children and families.