Center Team Member; East Communities

Welcome Center Team Member (East Communities)

#26-0266

Austin, Texas, United States

Why Your Role Matters

Our Welcome Center Team is the heart of the facility! Our Welcome Center Team Members are info specialists, problem solvers, and the first smile our members, visitors, and participants see when they enter the building! As a Welcome Center Team Member, you're the front-line support for members and help ensure they're satisfied with our programs, services, and experience. Most importantly, you are part of someone's journey in pursuing their well-being and health.

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How You Will Make an Impact

• Actively engage and greet each member/guest who comes into the YMCA.
• Occasionally open or close the facility and have key-holding duties.
• Provide excellent service to members, guests, and program participants in the Y and on the phone, contributing to member retention.
• Provide Cause-driven tours to potential new members and use  Listen to First  skills before and during the tour.
• Follow and lead branch protocols for prospective members.
• Keep informed of all branch activities & schedules in order to provide exceptional member service.
• Handle and resolve membership concerns and inform the supervisor of unusual situations or unresolved issues.
• Reconcile end-of-shift money received through the sale of membership, merchandise, mini-camp, and program registrations.
• Promote the YMCA's character values, mission, wellness philosophy, and role in the community.
• Lead by example the Y's mission, vision, and values with program participants, members, staff and guests .
• Become an Ambassador of the Y's work and culture by being the ultimate storyteller of who we are as an organization and brand .
• P erform additional duties as assigned.

What You Bring to the Y

• Minimum of 16 years old.
• Experience in customer service.
• Bilingual skills, particularly in Spanish, are a plus.
• Team Player: Work collaboratively with others and support a positive team environment.
• Communicates Effectively: Listens actively and communicates clearly with members and peers.
• Fosters Belonging: Ensure everyone feels welcomed, respected, and included.
• Growth Mindset: Learn and improve to better serve members and the mission.
• Self-Development: Actively seeking new ways to grow and be challenged.
• Customer Focused: Anticipates needs and ensures quality, member-centered service.

Physical Requirements:

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, walk, bend, talk and occasionally lift and/or move items including equipment, furniture and/or children. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

The Greater Austin YMCA is a dynamic force elevating quality of life in Greater Austin by boldly expanding access for all children, adults, families and seniors in our rapidly growing community. For nearly 75 years, the Greater Austin YMCA has evolved to address each community's greatest needs, touching every phase of life and nurturing happier, healthier people, a stronger community and a better world.

We believe everyone deserves access to high-quality programs that keep our community strong. As a proud 501(c)(3) nonprofit, we provide financial assistance to expand access so community members can learn, grow, and thrive through our early learning academies, fitness and wellness centers, youth programs, workforce development, adult programming, mental health counseling, and more.

Each year, the Y serves nearly 140,000 people across Travis and Hays counties through seven fitness and wellness centers, more than 55 licensed campuses in four school districts, two YMCA Tomorrow Academy™ locations, and Camp Moody, our outdoor Adventure camp.

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