Community Executive Director Jobs

The Lake Houston Family YMCA is seeking a dynamic individual for the position of Community Executive Director. This is an excellent opportunity for a progressive goal-oriented leader who achieves positive outcomes by utilizing strong team members, volunteers, and other community leaders. The Lake Houston YMCA is in Northeast Houston and serves the Kingwood, Humble and Atascocita Communities. This state-of-the-art facility recently went through a remodel in 2018 after Hurricane Harvey devasted much of the community. The Lake Houston YMCA has an operational budget of $3.5 million dollars and provides programs and services to 4,000 facility membership units. In addition to our strong programming, we raise over $175,000 a year in our annual campaign to provide community-based scholarships to thousands of families in our area including our Miracle League and adaptive programming which ensures that all children get the opportunity to play sports.

This position oversees the total operation of a YMCA center, including the member experience, local grass-roots marketing, youth & family programs, volunteer and staff development, financial development, community relations and collaborations with community agencies. Work within a centralized matrix model of staffing with departments such as: Facilities, Out of School Time.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

LANGUAGE SKILLS

Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES

Directly supervises full-time exempt and non-exempt employees. Carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization's policies and applicable laws. Responsibilities include interviewing, hiring, and training employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; reviewing and approving timesheets; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; monitoring and updating all required staff certifications; addressing complaints and resolving problems.

COMPUTER LITERACY

Skills are essential in all of the Microsoft Office applications including Word, Excel, and Access. Ability to use these programs to lighten workload, develop reports and to automate procedures is very necessary. Ability to diagnose basic PC problems and to communicate those problems is very important.

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS

Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.

REASONING ABILITY

Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form. Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

The physical demands 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.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, sit and talk or hear. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

HOURS

Flexible with scheduling and availability to work operational hours of the YMCA and sites, which may include day, evenings and weekends.

TRAVEL

Travel is primarily local between assigned centers during the business day, although some out-of-area and overnight travel may be expected.

YMCA Culture & Cause Expectations

Our mission and core values are brought to life by our culture. It’s who are, who we aspire to be and how we show up every day. We are cause-driven. We don’t just show up, we show up with purpose. As a cause-driven leader you are expected to be:

• Nurturing -To care for, support, and help develop through encouragement.
• Genuine –To be honest and open in relationships with others.
• Hopeful -Take an optimistic or positive view of future outcomes.
• Welcoming -Accept neighbors eagerly, warmly, hospitably, and as equal participants.
• Determined -To devote full strength and concentrated attention to the cause.