Senior Vice President of Operations

Young Mens Christian Association of Central Ohio

The YMCA of Central Ohio is seeking a dynamic and cause‑driven leader for the role of Senior Vice President of Youth Development. This executive will oversee all licensed child care, school‑age, and youth programs, ensuring high‑quality, sustainable, and impactful experiences for children and families. The ideal candidate brings a proven track record in program and fiscal management, relationship‑building with community partners, and leading diverse teams to achieve strategic goals.

As a role model for staff and members, they will champion the Y's mission of promoting youth development, healthy living, and social responsibility while driving innovation, program growth, and advocacy at the local, state, and national levels.

This position is perfect for a visionary leader committed to creating equitable, collaborative, and transformative experiences for children and families.

Thinks, communicates and behaves as a cause‑driven leader and role model for other staff and members when it comes to desired staff behaviors; promotes youth development, healthy living, and social responsibility in all job‑related functions.

Manages youth development team's operational procedures, implementation of strategic initiatives and goals, and completion of projects that impact all youth development programs, including program development and expansion.

Oversees the operation of all licensed child care programs to ensure licensing compliance, impact, quality, viability, as well as fiscal health and sustainability.

Oversees the fiscal management, development, monitoring, reporting and analysis of annual and grant‑funded program budgets for Early Learning, Head Start, Preschool, Day Camp, Teen, and Before/After School programs, including enrollment performance, PFCC revenue, data reporting, and ongoing adjustments to ensure program quality and viability.

Coordinates efforts with the Operations and Advancement teams to obtain and implement grants from foundations or public entities to fund programs. This includes establishing roles and responsibilities to ensure all tasks are complete and deadlines are met for each grant, i.e. writing proposals, data collection and reporting.

Develops and fosters strong relationships with school districts, other community‑based organizations, corporations and governmental agencies in order to collaborate on youth related initiatives and contracts, as assigned.

Facilitates the development of an annual plan and goals for all programs which includes detailed plans for quality improvements where necessary, prioritization of new initiatives, and plans for overall association program events (training, orientation, marketing campaigns, data collection, etc.).

Works with the People & Culture and Marketing teams to develop and implement recruitment and promotional strategies.

Maintains positive, professional relationships and cooperates with children, families, partners, school/host staff, administrators, community and YMCA staff.

Serves as lead for the association in advocacy and public policy work related to child care locally, statewide and nationally.

Maintains confidentiality in regards to staff and family information.

Follow mandated reporting requirements. Communicates to all staff the organization's commitment to protecting their youth from abuse.

Ability to work effectively with diverse groups and viewpoints from all social and economic segments of the organization and community. A commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and anti‑racism is expected from our staff.