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Youth and Family Program Director

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Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA
Full-time

The YMCA of South Florida is now hiring a Youth and Family Services Director for our new Hallandale Beach YMCA Family Center.

The Youth & Family Services Director is responsible for developing, administering and supervising all facets of Day Camps, Holiday and Schools Out Programming, Afterschool Program, Teens, Family Programming, and Enrichment Programming to meet and / or exceed family center goals. This includes developing and monitoring the annual budgets of these programs and departments to ensure fiscal compliance.

Areas of Responsibility: 
  • Recruit, train, supervise, and evaluate program volunteers and staff as they relate to program activities.
  • Develop, manage, and evaluate department budgets to meet and / or exceed family center revenue and enrollment goals.
  • Conduct seasonal programmatic quality evaluations of all YMCA programs.
  • Build and maintain professional relationships with local public and private schools and other collaborative agencies and professional service organizations.
  • Implement reviews and revise all aspects of program relative to quality, character development and satisfaction from sign-up and enrollment to assessment of program delivery.
  • Manage delivery of related programs to exceed YMCA standards and program objectives to include Character Building whenever possible.
  • Serves as a member of the Family Center Senior Leadership Team by providing leadership and support for annual fund raising campaign, and volunteer committees as assigned.
  • Assumes leadership for assigned family center initiatives.
  • Meet all assigned program enrollment and quality benchmarks by marketing and promoting
  • Ensure all youth and family programming supports HEPA (Healthy Eating and Physical Activities) guidelines.
  • Ensure that Risk Management, and emergency procedures are followed.
  • Assist Executive Director and volunteers in Annual Campaign in meeting goal for dollars and volunteers
Educational Background: 
Bachelor's degree in Education, Psychology, Sociology, and Child Development or related field preferred.
Skills/Experience: 
  • Minimum of three years of experience with summer camps, teens, program administration.
  • Experience working with budgets, developing a budget, fiscal management of programs, and fund raising.
  • YMCA management experience desirable.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills, sound fiscal management practices, strong organizational abilities and problem solving strategies.
  • Demonstrated leadership through experiences in supervision, community collaboration and innovation.
  • Ability to adequately observe program activities, enforce safety regulations and apply appropriate policies and procedures.
  • Visual and auditory ability to respond to critical incidents and the physical ability to act swiftly in an emergency.
  • Proficient in Microsoft Office including Word and Excel.
  • Bilingual, English and Spanish, a plus.
  • Excellent interpersonal skills; ability to interact with individuals at all levels.
  • Must have transportation in order to travel within County.
Compensation/Benefits: 

Salary: $40,000.00 - $50,000.00

Organization Info

YMCA of the USA

Overview
Headquarters: 
Chicago, IL, United States
Annual Budget : 
$100-500M
Founded: 
1983
About Us
Mission: 

The YMCA mission is: To put Christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind and body for all. YMCA of the USA (Y-USA) is the national resource office for the Y, one of the nation's leading nonprofits strengthening communities through youth development, healthy living and social responsibility. Across the U.S., 2,700 Ys engage 22 million men, women and children – of all ages, incomes and backgrounds – to nurture the potential of children and teens, improve the nation's health and well-being and provide opportunities to give back and support neighbors. Anchored in more than 10,000 communities, the Y has the longstanding relationships and physical presence needed not just to promise, but also to deliver, lasting personal and social change.

Programs: 
  1. YOUTH DEVELOPMENT: Nurturing the potential of children and teens
  2. HEALTHY LIVING: Improving the nation’s health and well-being
  3. SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY: Giving back and providing support to neighbors

Listing Stats

Post Date: 
Mar 6 2019
Active Until: 
Apr 6 2019
Hiring Organization: 
YMCA of the USA
industry: 
Nonprofit