Executive Director

Westchester Children’s Association is in search for a dynamic, creative, thought leader to advocate for Westchester County’s children as its Executive Director. Our current Executive Director, who is retiring, leads a team of diverse, passionate, skilled and effective child advocates and inspires partners to join us in making tangible improvements for not only Westchester’s children, but New York State’s and beyond.

Since 1914, as the only organization in Westchester that focuses exclusively on child advocacy, the WCA finds out what children need, helps others understand those needs, and brings people together to promote practical, effective solutions. We work to ensure that Westchester’s children are healthy, safe, and prepared for life’s challenges, regardless of zip code.

This work is critical. Although Westchester is often seen as uniformly affluent, one in four children and youth (0-25), are on public insurance and 23% live in poor or low-income households. Within Westchester, most children of color experience higher poverty rates compared to their white counterparts. These racial disparities affect outcomes across a broad spectrum of life issues, such as education, child welfare, health and juvenile justice. The WCA leads community efforts to address and ameliorate these inequities. We are a key resource to community members, elected officials and policy makers in understanding what needs to change and we are a trusted convener of stakeholders in solving problems. We use data to illuminate barriers to child well-being, particularly for poor children and children of color, and leverage our leadership and credibility to engage concerned and affected groups to push for change.

Please see the attached PDF for the full job description and instructions for how to apply.