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Lead youth programs and camps that bring families together and strengthen our YMCA community.
Job Description
The Youth and Family Director provides direct supervision of staff and is responsible for the successful operation of quality programs for children, teens, and families. The Director will work in collaboration with other department directors to achieve the Association’s goals related to Youth & Family services; provide programs that foster children’s social, physical, spiritual, and mental growth; and ensure the health, welfare, and safety of program participants.
The Youth and Family Director will support programming in the YMCA’s E-Gaming lab, work with the campus’s joint Culinary Center, and lead a team that creates a variety of activities for middle school students.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in related field or equivalent experience supervising youth programs and operations, with minimum two years managing staff, payroll, and budgets.
- Minimum two years experience in youth programming.
- Variety of knowledge of youth programs, including design, successful implementation, ongoing management, and continuous growth. Previous child development, childcare and camp experience is preferred.
- Strong initiative, creativity, flexibility, and able to promote an environment that supports the Y mission and core values.
- Strong attention to detail, excellent organizational skills, flexible, and able to work efficiently in a fast-paced environment.
- Outstanding communication, organization, and planning abilities.
- Ability to relate effectively to diverse groups of people from all social and economic segments of the community.
Essential Functions
- In partnership with the Association Director of Youth and Family, plans, administers, and evaluates Youth and Family programs, which may include parent’s night out, family fun nights, birthday parties, and signature family-related association events.
- Recruits, hires, trains, develops, schedules, and directs personnel and volunteers for programs, such as Kid Zone, summer camps, and any other Youth and Family programs.
- Reviews and evaluates staff performance. Develops strategies to motivate staff and achieve goals.
- Provides leadership and oversight of summer and holiday camps to include budgeting, hiring, scheduling, and program management.
- Develops and implements a plan to grow participation in youth and family programs.
- Establishes new program activities and expands program within the community in accordance with strategic and operating plans.
- Provides “hands-on” leadership to youth program activities for successful Branch operations.
- Ensures the health, safety, and well-being of children in the program by providing thorough education and supervision of new staff; close supervision of all activities; and adherence to all standard operating procedures and safety guidelines.
- Develops effective program recruitment strategies/campaigns, ensuring engagement of youth participants from diverse backgrounds.
- Develops and maintains collaborative relationships with community organizations.
- Compiles program statistics. Monitors and evaluates the effectiveness of and participation in program.
- Develops and monitors program budget to meet fiscal objectives.
- Serves as key member on branch leadership team.
- Assists in YMCA fundraising activities and special events.