Health & Wellness Director

YMCA Duties

• Create, develop, and implement dynamic Health & Wellness and Sports programs that best utilize branch space and are responsive to member needs.
• Assist in the creation, development, and implementation of Athletic Performance Training programs for the community, and actively recruit local high school/college athletes and teams.
• Provides leadership to program development, staff development, and financial operations relating to areas of responsibility.
• Maintain multiple program areas to ensure that safety procedures are followed and that all programs comply with YMCA standards, regulations, and other applicable standards.
• Coordinate and schedule monthly equipment maintenance and repairs for more than 100 pieces of equipment in Fitness Center, Group Exercise Room and Multipurpose Room.
• Coordinate daily sanitation and preventative maintenance in Fitness Center, Group Exercise Room and Multipurpose Room.
• Monitors and evaluates the effectiveness of and participation in Health & Wellness programs.
• Compiles program statistics and provides data and reports as required for assigned programs.
• Provides leadership and support to the annual fundraising campaign to support the YMCA vision and mission.
• Develops and maintains effective working relationships within the staff, members, and volunteers and within the community.
• Assess the inclusion of the Y’s mission, values and safety guidelines in all program areas.  Understand and consistently administer the branch and association policies and procedures.
• Assist Corporate Wellness Coordinator with health screenings, metrics, and other programs.
• Assist Corporate Wellness in sports game planning, management, and execution for annual Corporate Games events.
• Request and monitor program space for availability, create contingency plans for changes in event schedules so as not to interrupt service to members.
• Monitor program success and retention in areas to include Personal Training, SOS Referral Programs, group exercise, and chronic disease programming.
• Input, manage, and run reports from CCC for all Wellness and Sports programs.
• Other duties as assigned by the Associate Executive Director.

Onondaga Community College Duties

• Assist Onondaga Community College (OCC) with on-campus general wellness initiatives.
• Responsible for annual reporting to OCC’s Athletic Director.
• Attend OCC athletic functions to represent the YMCA.
• Manage the Applied Exercise Room facility, including scheduling Work Study students provided by OCC to monitor open supervised athlete time.
• Work with coaches to schedule year-round workouts for the 16 OCC teams, including open supervised athlete time, around OCC’s Physical Education classes and YMCA group exercise classes in the Applied Exercise Room.
• Work with OCC’s Athletic Trainer to monitor athlete injuries and assists with injury prevention.
• Notify OCC Athletics of individual athlete program attendance, team performance, aptitude, concerns.
• Build a student following with dynamic and relevant wellness programming, keeping up with current trends, and building relationships with OCC administrators, students, faculty, and staff.

Staff Development and Supervision

• Develop and implement a comprehensive staff development plan in the areas of responsibility.
• Recruit, develop, train, supervise, and evaluate Fitness Floor Staff, Group Exercise Instructors, Personal Trainers, Nutritionist, and Sports Instructors.  Create a positive work environment.
• Train, develop and mentor a coaching staff for Athletic Performance Training utilizing safe, effective methods to increase performance.
• Mentor student-athletes and prospective student athletic training staff in healthy lifestyle principles, professionalism, safety, organization, and program development.
• Attend campus Work Study and Employment Fairs to facilitate our role as an “on-campus employer.”
• Ensure high quality programs through innovative program development, evaluations, on-going training of staff and ensure all staff maintains their required certifications.
• Oversees the planning and implementation of departmental staff meetings focusing on service, safety relationship building and policies and procedures.