SCI Summary: SCI supports people with disabilities, behavioral challenges, medically complex needs, transitioning youth, the elderly, and other populations using Maryland Department of Health's Targeted Case Management and Supports Planning work models.

Position Summary: Reporting to the Vice President of Strategy, the Director of Strategy plays a critical role in advancing SCI's growth, diversification, and strategic direction. This position leads organization-wide strategic planning, providing insights and recommendations that reflect SCI's mission, vision, and values. The Director of Strategy supervises managers, ensures cross-functional collaboration, and drives the use of strategic tools and data to support visibility and performance tracking. This role bridges strategic vision and execution to position SCI for long-term impact, innovation, and sustainability.

SCI Team Member Expectations: All SCI Team Members are expected to: Ensure services provided follow the organization's mission statement, core operating values and policies and procedures, follow HIPAA, confidentiality and security procedures and principles; collaborate with peers, leadership, and support areas of the organization; actively participate in and contribute to leadership and other staff meetings and trainings; maintains compliance with federal, state, and local employment laws and regulations; follow self-direction and person-centered planning procedures and philosophy; and to foster a culture that values diversity.

Essential Duties:
• Lead strategic planning, working across departments to ensure clarity, alignment, and measurable outcomes.
• Supervise and support Managers within the Strategy Center of Excellence, providing guidance, prioritization, and development.
• Lead market validation and business case development for priority opportunities.
• Leverage internal and external research partnerships to uncover trends, unmet needs, and market conditions that shape opportunity identification.
• Provide strategic insights and recommendations to the Vice President of Strategy; collaborate closely to inform prioritization, decision-making, and organization wide planning.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to define requirements for pilots, new programs, and scaling strategies.
• Utilize tools like dashboards, KPIs, and templates to enhance visibility, alignment, and performance tracking across the organization.
• Represent the Strategy COE in internal and external meetings, contributing insights and advocating for cross-functional alignment.
• Maintain high-level visibility into team capacity, initiative progress, and cross-team coordination needs; escalate barriers.
• Support resource planning and annual strategy goal-setting processes, ensuring fidelity with SCI's mission, vision, and values.

Supervisory Duties:
• Recruits, interviews, hires and manages direct report(s)
• Mentors direct report(s) to ensure professional development and growth
• Provides constructive and timely performance evaluations for direct report(s)

Education Required:
• Bachelor's degree required
• Advanced degree preferred

Experience Required:
• Minimum 7 years' relevant and progressive experience in business, nonprofits and/or government is required.
• Preference for some of this experience to be in the Health and Human Services industry.
• Knowledge of the ID/DD population and relevant service array, including home and community-based services and associated reimbursement is highly desirable.
• Experience managing teams.
• Successful track record of leading strategic growth initiatives that result in service diversification, new lines of business, and revenue generation, ideally within the Human Services sector.
• Experience identifying opportunities and securing funding through grant applications, fundraising and other development initiatives preferred.

SCI Value Related Competencies:
• People Come First (Customer Focus): Thinks and acts with people we support in mind when making decisions. Dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external shareholders, uses information and feedback to improve services.
• Building Relationships and Connections: Interpersonal savvy. Relates to all kinds of people. Builds appropriate rapport, uses diplomacy and tact, diffuses high-tension situations comfortably. Establishes and maintains meaningful connections within the community and the organization (internal and external stakeholders)
• Education (Informing Others): Quickly finds common ground to solve problems. Is seen as a cooperative team player. Provides coaching and mentoring to Team Members. Consistent communicator, provides Team Members with the tools they need to perform their jobs in a timely manner. Explores all available options to make the best decision for internal and external holders
• Diversity: Values, appreciates and honors the ways in which cultural differences can create value in organizations. Is service oriented: Demonstrates a commitment to the philosophies for services and the goal of independence for the people we serve. Raises awareness in communities to appreciate the similarities and unique gifts of each person. Interacts with all kinds of Team Members equitably, deals effectively with all races, nationalities, cultures, disabilities, ages, and genders, supports equal and fair treatment and opportunity for all.
• Driving Solutions (Perseverance): Pursues all initiatives with energy, drive, and the goal to succeed.

Job-Specific Competencies:
• Strategic Mindset: Seeing ahead to future possibilities and translating them into breakthrough strategies
• Collaborates: Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives
• Manages Complexity: Making sense of complex, high quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems
• Business Insight: Applying knowledge of business and the marketplace to advance the organization's goals
• Builds Effective Teams: Building strong-identity teams that apply their diverse skills and perspectives to achieve common goals
• Financial Acumen: Interpreting and applying understanding of key financial indicators to make better business decisions
• Drives Results: Consistently achieving results, even under tough circumstances
• Plans and Aligns: Planning and prioritizing work to meet commitments aligned with organizational goals
• Cultivates Innovation: Creating new and better ways for the organization to be successful

Physical Demands: Generally, presents standard office environment. Must be able to remain in a stationary position >95% of the time. Continually operates a computer, keyboard and mouse, and other office productivity machinery, such as a calculator, copy machine, printer, and mobile Smartphone device. Constantly positions self to comfortably maintain computer equipment. May occasionally be required to move about in an office setting or position office equipment weighing between 10-25 pounds. Vision abilities required by this job include close vision. Ability to operate a motor vehicle. The person in this position frequently communicates with other people. Must be able to exchange accurate information in these situations.

IT Roles must be able to position self to maintain computers and equipment, including under desks and in server room(s). Frequently moves equipment weighing up to 50 pounds.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this job. This job description is subject to change at any time.

I hereby acknowledge that I have been provided the opportunity to discuss the job description above with my Supervisor and I understand the responsibilities and duties described above.

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