Vice President, Strategy & Culture

Are you a senior team leader with a passion to improve the lives of children prenatal to 5 and their families and experience stewarding organizational culture to advance strategic plans, effective Board relations and impactful communications? Reporting to the President & CEO, the Vice President of Strategy & Culture (VPSC) is a key leadership position responsible for advancing First 5 LA’s culture and strategy, embedding diversity, equity & inclusion (DEI) across the organization, and communicating the organization’s work effectively internally and externally. This VP is one of four members of the Senior Leadership Team reporting directly to the President & Chief Executive Officer. The VPSC will be responsible for strengthening our inclusive and collaborative results-based culture to advance First 5 LA’s vision and strategic plan, embrace our values, and foster organizational effectiveness. They will ensure that the organization amplifies its commitment to DEI through review and on-going stewardship of our priorities.

Working closely with the President & CEO, they will guide how the organization engages with the Board of Commissioners, adding a strategic lens to the curation of the annual calendar, meeting agendas, materials and follow-up. The VPSC will ensure that the organization builds and executes a consistent internal and external communications strategy, and messaging that inspires our team and communities. The VPSC serves as the point person for strategic planning and implementation. The VPSC oversees the Center of Strategy & Culture which consists of the Communications (Internal & External) department and the following functions: Board Relations, Organizational Culture & DEI, Strategic Planning & Implementation, as well as outsourced Legal Services.

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The VPSC:

• Is a member of the Senior Leadership Team providing thought partnership and support to the President & CEO in the overall strategic leadership of the organization, and develops and implements comprehensive management strategies and plans that support the successful adoption of new initiatives, technologies, and organizational changes.

• Provides visionary leadership, guidance, support, and mentorship to the Center of Strategy & Culture (CSC), fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, rigor, and action.

• Working closely with the Director of Communications, manages the overall First 5 LA brand that reinforces First 5 LA as a county, state and national leader in systems change work to benefit children prenatal to 5 and their families.

• Champions an organization-wide culture that 1. embraces our adopted values of impact, equity, partnership, and integrity, and 2. fosters growth, innovation, continuous improvement and focus on results.

• Ensures that the Board of Commissioners is strategically informed and engaged to effectively govern First 5 LA, assuring that written materials and verbal presentations are strategically and internally aligned, robust and accurate, consistent in messaging, and well organized and effective; leads the review and debrief following Commissioner meetings.

• Ensures the translation of multi-year, high-level strategic goals into specific strategies, objectives and tactics that centers, departments and functions will implement in their day-to-day activities; ensures that the organization reports on its performance against adopted goals, strategies, objectives and tactics; leads the creation of future strategic plans.

• Ensures that First 5 LA receives responsive, timely and consistent legal advice and counsel from outsourced legal services provider(s); serves as the lead point of contact for outsourced legal services provider(s) and has primary responsibility for managing contract(s), including cost containment and on-going evaluation; approves all internal requests for accessing advice and counsel from legal services provider(s).

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