Youth Team Manager; Recreational

Youth Team Manager (Recreational and Competitive)

At Movement, our core values of growth, connection, and integrity are at the heart of everything we do. We’re not just a climbing gym – we’re a community that’s dedicated to transforming lives through climbing, yoga, and fitness and sharing that vision with as many people as we can. As the country’s largest network of climbing gyms, we’re building an extraordinary team that’s committed to growing our business, our value to our members, our future customers, and our industry.

By expanding our community, we can create rewarding career paths for our team members, continually improve the customer experience, build a sustainable business for the long term, and give back to the communities we are all a part of. We’re looking for passionate, resilient, and business‑minded enthusiasts who share our values and want to join us in not only leading the climbing industry but defining it!

Position Overview

The Youth Team Manager at Movement Harlem is responsible for growing, running, and managing the recreational and competitive youth climbing programs in their facility. The Team Manager serves as the main point of contact for the climbing team and camp programs and must be self‑motivated, goal‑oriented, able to multitask, innovative, possess good time‑management skills, and be passionate about helping coaches and young climbers achieve their expression of success.

They must be able to lead with empathy and compassion to create a positive culture. The result will be to deliver high‑quality climbing programming that promotes transformative experiences for youth athletes and teaches life skills through sport climbing.

Primary Duties & Responsibilities

• Reports to the Gym Director and works closely with the Director of Programs to develop the team program in line with overall Movement vision
• Assist in recruiting, hiring, training, and mentoring a cohesive team of Coaches who collectively embody Movement’s values (growth, connection, and integrity) and provide high‑quality programming for youth athletes
• Work closely with a team of Coaches to develop training plans that ensure development of each athlete’s personal and team‑oriented goals across all levels of the Team
• Coach three to four days a week either as part of ratio or as a floating coach, and attend competitions and events as needed.
• Provide supervision for youth climbers who will be bouldering, lead climbing, and belaying.
• Provide effective and timely communication between coaches, parents, directors, and gym members
• Ensure that backend administration and organization of team program is taken care of in a timely and effective manner. This involves effective communication with new prospective athlete families, handling membership issues, scheduling staff, tracking belay and other safety trainings, ordering team clothing and other supplies, etc.
• Manage the Youth Team business unit at that facility, working to meet financial goals including overall revenue targets comp/rev percentages which support the program and gym overall.
• Schedule mock comps, training camps, social events, and other team functions that foster and support a healthy and inclusive team culture.
• Work with Gym Director and Programs department to ensure appropriate training and training tracking of belay and bouldering risk management skills for all coaches.
• Innovate by identifying ways to improve the team program, the gym, and Movement’s vision for programs, and work with the Gym Directors, Director Team, and other Team Managers to grow our community in a way that maintains alignment between gyms and programs.
• Collaborate with a team of facility department managers and support the general well‑being of the facility operations.

Qualifications

• Ability to define and create a positive team culture
• Passion for developing coaches and young athletes in a way that emphasizes fun and fosters a love of the sport and the climbing community
• Experience with competitive youth climbing programs. Experience with USA Climbing including local and championship events is preferred
• Experience planning and implementing a training schedule for youth athletes
• Strong climbing and…