The Program Director is responsible for developing, administering and overseeing all facets of sports programs, day camps, afterschool programs, family & teen programming, and special events, with a heavy emphasis on volunteer development. This includes developing and monitoring the annual budgets of these programs and departments.
Areas of Responsibility:
- Develop, implement, and manage effective family services programs including Youth Sports, Afterschool, Kids Zone, Day Camps.
- Implement quality standards in all program areas, meeting or exceeding family center, association and accrediting organization expectations.
- Oversee the development of volunteer advisory committees for each program area and the branch.
- Responsible for developing, implementing and monitoring departments marketing plans.
- Must be able to establish, develop, foster and maintain positive relationships with area schools, churches, civic groups, businesses and community organizations.
- Develop goals and objectives for the departments that will reflect the association’s strategic plan and objectives.
- Maintain records to evaluate and measure the effectiveness of assigned responsibilities.
- Responsible for Risk Management, Quality Standards, Child Abuse and Safety for all program areas.
- Recruit, hire, supervise and develop lead staff for youth sports, day camp, afterschool, and kid’s zone. Responsible for ensuring certifications and performance evaluation of all supervised staff according to Central Coast YMCA guidelines.
- Lead committee of staff for Y family events.
- Must be able to prepare, monitor and manage departments budget to assure financial and program goals are attained while serving in a leadership role in financial development through our Annual Support Campaign.
- Partner with Community Development to identify and manage grant funding opportunities.
- Monitor payments in all programs, supervises timely collection of all program fees.
- Serve as a member of the family center leadership team.
- Other duties as assigned.
Educational Background:
Bachelor’s degree in early childhood development, recreation/sports or equivalent area preferred.
Skills/Experience:
- Three to five years management experience with proven abilities in budget development, monitoring and control.
- Proven ability in program development, marketing and promotion.
- Proven skills as a high functioning, multi-tasker
- Demonstrated ability and initiative in developing harmonious relationships with staff, members, volunteers and community leaders.
- Minimum of three years of experience with afterschool programs, summer camps, youth sports & program administration.
- Current state approved First Aid / CPR certified.
- Bilingual, English and Spanish strongly preferred.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
- Excellent interpersonal skills; ability to interact with individuals at all levels.
- Proficient in Microsoft Word and Excel.
- Must have transportation in order to travel within service area
Physical Demands:
- The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to success perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities.
- Being in good physical health with full range of body motion, including manual and finger dexterity and eye/hand coordination. Requires corrected vision and hearing to normal range. Occasionally requires working under stressful conditions or working irregular hours.
Work Environment:
- Work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Visiting Indoor and outdoor Program sites and facilities; exposure to heat, and cold. Noise level is usually moderate.
- Employment at the YMCA is at-will. It is purely voluntary, based upon the consent of both the Association and the staff member. No expressed or implied contractual rights should be inferred from this job description.
Compensation/Benefits:
Excellent benefits including health insurance, paid time off, retirement plans upon eligibility, and a YMCA family membership. This position offers a positive work environment and an ability to make a difference.
Job Function:
Organization Info
Listing Stats
Post Date:
Jul 25 2018
Active Until:
Aug 26 2018
Hiring Organization:
YMCA of the USA
industry:
Nonprofit