The Volusia/Flagler Family YMCA is an equal opportunity employer committed to valuing diversity and practicing inclusion.
The Volusia/Flagler Family YMCA Board of Directors is actively seeking a visionary, charismatic leader who will create a culture of excellence within and outside the Y. The next leader will build strong relationships in the communities and skillfully position this Y as an indispensable community asset while ensuring its internal operations are running efficiently. The new leader must guide the YMCA to sustainable operations and programs to serve communities through growing contributions, membership, and other funding sources.
The Chief Executive Officer will lead the Volusia/Flagler Family YMCA and will be uniquely positioned to champion the Y mission of providing a myriad of values-based programs and services for families throughout the area.
To be considered, candidates must have a solid business acumen, sound judgment, and exceptional leadership skills.
Areas of Responsibility:
- Establish and Implement a Strategic Plan: Implement, manage, and apply a strategic plan for the organization to deal with multitude of changes from competition to operations to fund raising.
- Improve Operating Performance: Partner with the board to identify issues and develop an annual tactical plan for achieving key YMCA goals and objectives to solve them. Remain fully informed of all operational issues and be able to quickly address issues that arise as well as forecast future needs. Manage and direct the Y’s operations and activities.
- Develop and Manage an Effective Staff Team: Remain actively engaged in staff/leadership development while establishing an inclusive culture using a “team-focused” management style. Lead by example to create and maintain a culture of integrity. Be a mentor and guide post to all in the organization and the community while still being able to make necessary, but difficult decisions.
- Create a Culture of Excellence/Act as an Ambassador for the Mission: Actively interact and communicate with Y members, donors, and staff and volunteers. Create a culture of excellence within the Y and act as an ambassador for the mission and vision for the Y within the community. Be seen and respected as a leader in the community, proactively creating collaborations while always upholding the values of the Y and the Y’s heritage.
- Fiscal Management: Ensure the Y’s financial resources are properly managed and report on its financial position. Use high level financial analysis to forecast trends, growth and stability while consistently leading the Y to balance or surplus operations by growing earned revenue and contributions and controlling costs. Build community financial support and endowments to sustain the long-term goals of the Y. Empower and guide staff to lead their departments and monitor and meet budgets. Develop and implement stewardship strategies.
- Move the Organization Towards Fiscal Excellence and Expand Fundraising Efforts: Improve operating performance and create additional budgetary guidelines to secure the long-term success of the Y in our community and beyond. Recognizing we can help more in need when the overall organization is a financial success. Empower the leadership team to be creative and drive towards excellence to provide leading programming in the community.
Educational Background:
Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited college or university, Master’s Degree preferred.
Skills/Experience:
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Personal values consistent with the Y mission.
- Minimum ten years’ prior experience in senior level management of a large/complex organization with direct supervision of multiple levels of staff and employees.
- Experience in preparing and managing a complex multi-million-dollar budget of more than $3,000,000 with multiple funding sources including traditional revenue generating streams, federal, state and local grants and cooperative agreements and development based funding.
- Demonstrated skills in contributed support, including endowments and successful completion of both annual support and capital campaigns.
- The proven ability to develop a vision for the long-term growth of the YMCA, and more importantly, implement the short to mid-term action plans necessary to realize these long-term goals.
- Experience and commitment to work towards inclusiveness and understanding of diversity specifically within the communities served by the Volusia/Flagler Family YMCA.
Preferred Criteria for Candidates:
- YMCA Senior Organizational Leader Certification (Note: Candidates not already in possession of this certification have up to three years to obtain this certification via the Y-USA Training and Leadership Development criterion).
- Other comparable community-based program management experiences such as demonstrated success in collaborations, working with a Board of Directors, and advocating for an agency in the community.
- Experience in the securing of grants and other creative revenue streams.
- Experience working and collaborating with public sector and governmental entities.
- Previous experience as a YMCA CEO is preferred.
Compensation/Benefits:
Salary: $135,000.00 - $150,000.00
Job Function:
Organization Info
Listing Stats
Post Date:
Oct 6 2018
Active Until:
Nov 6 2018
Hiring Organization:
YMCA of the USA
industry:
Nonprofit