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Job Description
Position Summary:
Develop, organize and implement high quality YMCA youth sports programs for our diverse participants.
Ensure a safe, positive and inclusive atmosphere that promotes participant safety and engagement in accordance with YMCA policies, practices and procedures.
Job Duties/Responsibilities:
Directs and supervises program activities to meet the needs of our diverse community and fulfill YMCA objectives
Expands youth sports program within the community in accordance with strategic and operating plans
Secures and schedules athletic fields and facilities
Transports and sets up equipment for games and practices; monitors and purchases necessary sporting equipment as budget permits
Creates teams from paid and financially assisted registrations
Organizes and conducts parent orientation meetings, and training and meetings for coaches
Develops and distributes team practice and game schedules; trains and schedules sports officials; develops and distributes sports rules, guidelines and handbooks
Purchases and distributes team uniforms and awards; coordinates and distributes
team photographs
Organizes and hosts season parties and events, promoting healthy eating and good nutrition
Organizes and conducts sports clinics
Assists in the marketing and distribution of youth sports program information
May review and process program scholarship applications
Develops and maintains collaborative relationships with community organizations
Assists in YMCA fund raising activities and special events
Responds to all member and community inquiries and complaints in timely manner
May assist with Program Committee meetings
Compiles program statistics
Monitors and evaluates the effectiveness of and participation in program.
Performs other duties as assigned
Qualifications
Experience working with individuals, families and communities of diverse backgrounds and abilities
One year or more previous direct supervisory experience
Strong computer skills and experience with standard business software
Strong professional written and verbal communication skills
Fluency in second language desired
Essential Functions
Physical and Mental Demands: The physical and mental demands described here are representative of those that must be met by employees to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
Physical Demands:
Sufficient strength, agility and mobility to perform essential functions and to supervise program activities in a wide variety of indoor and outdoor locations. While performing the duties of this job, employees are regularly required to sit, walk and stand; talk or hear, both in person and by telephone; use hands repetitively to handle, feel or operate standard office equipment; reach with hands and arms; and lift up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision and the ability to adjust focus.
Mental Demands:
While performing the duties of this job, employees are regularly required to use written and oral communication skills; read and interpret data, information and documents; analyze and solve non-routine and complex problems; may use math and mathematical reasoning; observe and interpret situations; learn and apply new information or skills; perform highly detailed work on multiple, concurrent tasks; work under intensive deadlines with frequent interruptions; and interact with members, staff, volunteers, and others encountered in the course of work, some of whom may be dissatisfied individuals.
Typical Working Conditions: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Typically interaction with others is busy, constant and occasionally interruptive. Work may be demanding at times. May require ability to work irregular hours. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Cause-Driven Leadership Competencies
Embrace Team Leader Core Competencies:
Mission Advancement:
Models and teaches the Y’s values
Ensures a high level of service with a commitment to improving lives
Provides volunteers with orientation, training, development, and recognition
Cultivates relationships to support fundraising
Collaboration:
Champions inclusion activities, strategies, and initiatives
Builds relationships to create small communities
Empathetically listens and communicates for understanding when negotiating and dealing with conflict
Effectively tailors communications to the appropriate audience
Provides staff with feedback, coaching, guidance and support
Operational Effectiveness:
Provides others with frameworks for making decisions
Conducts prototypes to support the launching of programs and activities
Develops plans and manages best practices through engagement of team
Effectively creates and manages budgets
Holds staff accountable for high-quality results using a formal process to measure progress
Personal Growth:
Shares new insights
Facilitates change; models adaptability and an awareness of the impact of change
Utilizes non-threatening methods to address sensitive issues and inappropriate behavior or performance
Has the functional and technical knowledge and skills required to perform well; uses best practices and demonstrates up-to-date knowledge and skills in technology