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Philippe Singletary

Rockford,IL

Summary

Accomplished Executive Director with a proven track record in leading a state-contracted child welfare organization dedicated to serving children and families involved with the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS). Expertise includes organizational leadership, program development, contract compliance, strategic planning, staff management, and community partnership development. Successfully directed the delivery of supervised parent-child visitation, individual and family counseling, parenting education, habilitation, and transportation services while ensuring high-quality, trauma-informed care in compliance with state regulations. Renowned for fostering collaborative relationships with government agencies, stakeholders, and multidisciplinary teams to enhance outcomes for children, strengthen families, and advance the organizational mission toward operational excellence.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience

Work History

Executive Director

Believe In The Children, Inc.
Freeport, IL
06.2024 - 03.2026

Summary

  • Nonprofit CEO overseeing DCFS-contracted child and family services. Grew portfolio from three ~$7.5K contracts (parenting, counseling, visitation) to a diversified $1.5M program mix, adding transportation and habilitation. Achieved Medicaid YouthCare certification for counseling and non-medical transportation. Built high-performing teams, ensured regulatory compliance, and delivered measurable program outcomes with disciplined financial stewardship.

Key Highlights

  • Scaled funding: Expanded and renegotiated DCFS contracts to $1.5M; added transportation and habilitation service lines.
  • Opened new revenue: Secured Medicaid YouthCare certification for counseling and non-medical transportation.
  • Operational excellence: Implemented KPIs, SOPs, and QA reviews; improved timeliness, documentation, and audit readiness.
  • Financial leadership: Built and managed annual budget; strengthened internal controls, billing, and forecast-to-actual reviews.
  • Governance and strategy: Partnered with Board on strategy, risk, and policy; delivered data-driven reports and recommendations.
  • Team leadership: Recruited and coached senior leaders; set goals and accountability; addressed performance issues decisively.
  • Compliance and risk: Ensured DCFS and nonprofit regulatory compliance; led monitoring visits and closed corrective actions.
  • Community presence: Primary liaison to DCFS, courts, schools, healthcare, donors, and partners across Stephenson County.

Regional Lead Supervisor

National Youth Advocate Program
Matteson, IL
04.2022 - 05.2024
  • Oversee assigned staff and ensure compliance to the program's contractual guidlines.
  • Manage daily operation of NYAP transportation, visitation and habilitation programs.
  • Manage scheduling software for visitation and transportation specialists.
  • Provide administration coordination for program contracts while aggressively seeking the growth and expansion in the local market(s) through relationships with key stakeholders.
  • Review and sign off on all paperwork generated by TVH case specialists.
  • Lead, train and support team members in the region.
  • Work with case specialists in coordinating services for YIC including therapy, court, school transports and supervised visits.
  • Coordinate all intake services, initial paperwork and documentation.
  • Recruit case specialists for THV.
  • Coordinate and develop team building exercises.

Senior Account Manager

Pierce Box And Paper
Belvidere, IL
10.2018 - 03.2020
  • Provide general information and respond to customer inquiries regarding order status.
  • Responsible for order entry into Amtech.
  • Forward complete and accurate shop orders to the appropriate internal customers.
  • Acknowledge all customer complaints immediately and begin the internal complaint process to include customer requested action.
  • Support sister companies and their customer service needs.
  • Manage the daily operations and communications for assigned accounts.
  • Responsible for data analysis of assigned territory and lead role in coordinating all project activity for territory.
  • Develop new accounts for assigned territory.
  • Ensure territory meets profitability guidelines and objectives by analyzing cost and pricing.

Online Merchant Director

Sears Holding Corporation
Hoffman Estates, IL
05.2017 - 02.2018
  • Maintain site, mobile and tablet performance-including customer flow analysis, SEO, product page optimization.
  • Partner with full line buyers in order to implement online only offers and pricing strategy to drive tools sales on Kmart.com utilizing internal and external marketing and promotional channels.
  • Experienced 6% growth in sales, 10% in profit Y/Y while exceeding forecast and plan for both in 2015.
  • Optimized over 200 search keywords which resulted in over 350% in conversion to purchase.
  • Partnered with marketing teams to optimally promote online exclusive offers and sales.

Merchant Operations Manager

Sears Holding Corporation
Hoffman Estates, IL
04.2015 - 05.2017
  • Build/Test deals such as Percent/Dollar Off, BOGO/Fixed price to support online promotional events.
  • Enter affiliate, email and personalization offers onto the Smart Opper Platform (SOP) utilizing data provided by merchant teams and/or print ads.
  • Identify opportunities for taxonomy updates.
  • Reclassify Marketplace items.
  • Update the Promotions Management System.
  • Execute MAP pricing requests.
  • Set Price Alert Exceptions.
  • Assisted in investigating why items are not online.
  • Trained/partnered with merchants and other support teams on owned processes.
  • Work/Train with the Offshore Merchant Ops team.
  • Special projects.

Senior Solutions Specialist

Sears Holding Corporation
Hoffman Estates, IL
09.2012 - 04.2015
  • Pricing research and review of marketing system issues.
  • Facilitate communication between Merchant and Critical Ops.
  • Ad Check-Offer/Pricing verification to printed ad.
  • Quality assurance on activity & offer start/stop dates and time for advertised/unadvertised promotions, offer types and offer setup.
  • Update/modify offers as needed to ensure pricing integrity.
  • Coordinate cross functional teams to identify, manage and resolve issues.

Education

High School Diploma -

Maranatha Christian Academy
Chicago, IL

Skills

  • Employee training facilitation
  • Process optimization
  • Cross-departmental collaboration
  • Client satisfaction focus
  • Client engagement
  • Facilitating meetings
  • Creative problem-solving

Timeline

Executive Director

Believe In The Children, Inc.
06.2024 - 03.2026

Regional Lead Supervisor

National Youth Advocate Program
04.2022 - 05.2024

Senior Account Manager

Pierce Box And Paper
10.2018 - 03.2020

Online Merchant Director

Sears Holding Corporation
05.2017 - 02.2018

Merchant Operations Manager

Sears Holding Corporation
04.2015 - 05.2017

Senior Solutions Specialist

Sears Holding Corporation
09.2012 - 04.2015

High School Diploma -

Maranatha Christian Academy