Chief Program Strategy & Impact Officer

National CASA GAL Job Description

Chief Program Strategy & Impact Officer

The National Court Appointed Special Advocate/Guardian ad Litem (CASA/GAL) Association for Children fulfills society’s most fundamental obligation by making sure a qualified and compassionate adult will fight for and protect the best interests of children who have experienced abuse or neglect. The mission of National CASA/GAL, together with its state and local members, is to support and promote court-appointed volunteer advocacy so that every child who has experienced abuse or neglect can be safe, establish permanence and can thrive. Today, only 45% of children in the system who have experienced abuse or neglect have access to a CASA/GAL volunteer. The National CASA/GAL organization is committed to ensuring 100% of these children have access to a CASA/GAL volunteer.

Breaking New Ground

National CASA/GAL launched a multi-year campaign, “Change a Child’s Story” starting in 2019. The campaign is an integrated campaign designed to reach out to a wide range of constituent groups and was deployed across a wide spectrum of media. In addition to this campaign, National CASA/GAL has developed a new strategic framework that is informing and guiding our efforts through the development of a new business model, and a plan for the direction of our organization, including the launching of a major capital campaign. The team that will drive these changes will be hands-on leaders, critical thinkers and problem solvers, relationship builders, collaborative decision-makers, as well as effective communicators, and entrepreneurial and change leaders.

Position Summary

The Chief Program Strategy & Impact Officer (CPSIO) is the executive leader responsible for translating National CASA/GAL’s mission and strategic direction into measurable national impact. Working closely with the Chief Executive Officer, the CPSIO leads enterprise strategy, strategic-plan execution, national network growth, research and evidence building, data and impact measurement, program innovation, and the learning strategy for the CASA/GAL network.

The CPSIO builds the systems, disciplines, partnerships, and organizational capabilities required to move National CASA/GAL from reporting activities and reach to demonstrating outcomes for children, families, volunteers, programs, and communities. The role establishes a coherent research and learning agenda; develops common outcomes and performance measures; strengthens the quality, governance, and use of data; leads the annual network survey; commissions and conducts research; and produces white papers and field-shaping publications that advance CASA/GAL’s role in child welfare.

This leader also develops and drives the national growth strategy so that more children and families have access to high-quality, permanency-focused, family-centered CASA/GAL advocacy. The CPSIO oversees CASA/GAL University and an integrated network learning strategy that equips volunteers, staff, boards, and state and local leaders with the knowledge and specialized capabilities necessary to achieve improved outcomes for children. The position combines enterprise-level leadership with hands-on execution and is accountable for converting strategy into priorities, milestones, decisions, and demonstrable results.

Executive Strategy Mandate

The Chief Program Strategy & Impact Officer will ensure that National CASA/GAL can answer four essential questions with rigor and credibility:

• Where must the organization and network focus to achieve the greatest national impact?
• How will National CASA/GAL know whether its advocacy, learning, growth, and strategic investments are improving outcomes for children and families?
• What evidence is needed to strengthen, validate, refine, and scale the CASA/GAL model?
• How will strategy be translated into coordinated execution across the national organization and the state and local network?

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

1\. Enterprise Strategy and Strategic Plan Execution

• Translate the strategic plan into a disciplined enterprise implementation framework with clearly defined outcomes, annual priorities, accountable owners, milestones, dependencies, resource requirements, and performance indicators.
• Establish and manage a strategy execution cadence, including executive reviews, dashboards, risk and dependency reviews, course corrections, and regular reports to the CEO.
• Identify emerging child-welfare, demographic, policy, technology, workforce, and funding trends and assess their implications for the Association and network.
• Lead scenario planning and advise the CEO on strategic opportunities, organizational positioning, partnerships, investments, and risks.

2\. Impact Strategy, Outcomes, and Evidence Building

• Develop and steward an enterprise impact framework and theory of change that connect CASA/GAL activities and advocacy practices to measurable outcomes for children, families, volunteers, programs, and communities.
• Define a practical hierarchy of outputs, near-term outcomes, longer-term outcomes, and systems-level indicators, including safety, permanency, well-being, family stability, volunteer effectiveness, advocacy quality, and equitable access to services.
• Lead the development, testing, validation, and adoption of common outcome measures and measurement protocols across national, state, and local levels.
• Create a multi-year roadmap for National CASA/GAL to become an evidence-based and evidence-generating organization, including clearly defined standards of evidence and appropriate evaluation designs.
• Partner with program, quality, accreditation, grants, technology, finance, and network leaders to embed measurement int...

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