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OVERVIEW OF NORTHERN COLORADO KIDS THRIVE
Northern Colorado Kids Thrive (NoCo Kids Thrive) is an independent nonprofit organization and steward of significant public investment dedicated to ensuring every young child in our community has quality early childhood experiences so they thrive from day one.
As the administrator of significant public and private investment in early care and education, NoCo Kids Thrive supports families, child care providers, educators, and community partners through programs that expand access, strengthen the early childhood workforce, improve quality, and build a more coordinated early childhood system.
Through voter-approved early care and education tax funding and additional public and private investments, NoCo Kids Thrive oversees more than $20 million annually in public revenue, in addition to workforce supports, family tuition subsidies, and philanthropic funding. As administrator of these funds, the organization is entrusted with fiscal integrity, transparency, and long-term sustainability in service to children, families, educators, and taxpayers.
POSITION SUMMARY
The Director of Workforce Stability leads Northern Colorado Kids Thrive’s workforce support portfolio, ensuring that investments, programs, partnerships, and services are aligned with the real needs of early childhood educators and child care programs across Larimer County.
Reporting to the Chief Program Officer, this role provides strategic leadership for workforce investments and supports. This includes salary subsidies, scholarships, professional development, benefits-related supports, quality and staffing grants, subpool supports, and other initiatives. Together, these efforts are designed to strengthen recruitment, retention, compensation, educator well-being, and program stability. The Director also plays a key role in strengthening workforce pipeline partnerships, including relationships with higher education, workforce development partners, and apprenticeship and career pathway programs.
The Director of Workforce Stability is responsible for setting the direction of the workforce portfolio, validating ongoing workforce needs with providers and educators, aligning resources across multiple funding mechanisms, and ensuring workforce strategies are responsive, equitable, and effective. This role also represents NoCo Kids Thrive in state, county, and regional workforce conversations and committees, helping ensure local workforce realities inform broader policy, funding, and system-building efforts.
This is a strong fit for a strategic and collaborative leader who understands early childhood workforce challenges, public funding, program design, systems change, and cross-sector partnership. The ideal candidate is able to listen deeply to the field, make high-level portfolio decisions, guide implementation through staff delegation, and use data and feedback to continuously refine the organization’s workforce investments.
