Job Description
Position Summary:
Develops, organizes and implements high quality, member-focused YMCA aquatic programs. 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
- Establishes new program activities and expands program within the community in accordance with strategic and operating plans
- Develops and maintains collaborative relationships with community organizations
- Promotes a diverse workforce; recruits, hires, trains, develops, schedules and directs personnel and volunteers as needed
- Reviews and evaluates staff performance
- Develops strategies to motivate staff and achieve goals
- Ensures records of staff certifications are current and complete
- Monitors daily pool operations to adhere to all state, local and YMCA health and safety regulations
- Conducts and ensures proper maintenance of pools, maintains accurate records of pool chemical levels and facility maintenance
- Conducts lifeguarding, swim instruction, First Aid and CPRPro trainings
- Creates and schedules swim classes, water fitness classes, and swim team practices and meets
- Able to perform and backup lifeguarding and swim instructor jobs as needed
- Assists in the marketing and distribution of program information
- Develops and monitors program budget to meet fiscal objectives
- May organize and/or represent the YMCA at community events
- Assists in YMCA fundraising activities and special events
- Models relationship-building using Listen First skills in all interactions
- Responds to all member and community inquiries and complaints in timely manner
- Assists with Program Committee meetings
- Compiles program statistics
- Monitors and evaluates the effectiveness of and participation in program
- Performs other duties as assigned
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:
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 occasionally lift up to 50 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.
Job descriptions represent a general outline of job duties, functions and qualifications. They are not intended to be comprehensive in nature. In addition, jobs evolve over time and therefore their description may not reflect the precise nature of the position at a given point in time.
