Chief Operating Officer; American Camp Association

Overview

Organization
:
American Camp Association
Role
:
Chief Operating Officer (COO)
Headquarters
:
Martinsville, IN (Indianapolis)
Work Location
:
Remote
Travel
:
Up to 40%
Salary Range
: $190,000 to 225,000

The American Camp Association (ACA) is a community of camp professionals who, for over 100 years, have joined together to share our knowledge and experience and to ensure the quality of camp programs. Because of our diverse 10,000 plus membership and our exceptional programs, we’re uniquely able to unleash the life-changing power of camp. Our work gives more children and adults the opportunity to learn powerful lessons in community, character-building, skill development, and healthy living — lessons that can be learned nowhere else.

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To support and advance the mission of ACA by:

• Directly leading the day-to-day operations of all functional teams that provide programs, products, and services to the general public, the full field of camp, and to our members.
• Effectively driving the association’s operational growth by setting ambitious goals, establishing a strong culture of accountability, leading innovation that strengthens ACA’s value proposition, and creating an environment of continuous learning and improvement.
• Being an innovative, thoughtful, communicative, and productive member of the ACA leadership team.
• Exhibiting strong organizational leadership to ensure ACA achieves its goals and objectives while being a strategic thought partner to the CEO.
• Providing recommendations to the CEO regarding the growth and alignment of staff resources required to meet and exceed the strategic objectives of the organization.
• Overseeing internal workflows and organizational development; ensuring communication and information flow throughout the organization, including with affiliate organizations, is efficiently managed to provide all employees and managers with current, pertinent, job-related information.
• Ensuring that ACA’s practices and resources reflect an inclusive, welcoming, and culturally responsive environment and increasing ACA’s diversity of representation across the organization.
• Fostering a relentless focus on aligning ACA’s programs, products, and services to the needs of the field of camp, keeping abreast of emerging needs and challenges.
• Providing leadership to ensure effective hiring, training, motivation, and development of ACA staff and operational teams.
• Given that ACA’s business model is built on volunteer support and leadership, creating and maintaining robust systems to recruit, train, support, lead, and recognize ACA’s local, regional, and national operational volunteers and volunteer committees.
• Establish strategic internal and external communications systems to effectively drive understanding and achieve ACA strategic goals and objectives, incorporating marketing tactics and initiatives as required.
• Representing ACA to key collaborators, partners, and allied organizations, building key relationships to further ACA’s strategic goals and objectives.
• Along with the CEO and CFO, setting budget priorities and leading the development and implementation of ACA’s operational budget.
• Ensuring that all association operations comply with federal, state, local, and/or company policies and regulations.
• Keeps up to date on overall activities of ACA teams, identifying problem areas and taking corrective actions as needed.
• Performing other related duties as assigned.

• Providing direct team leadership to 4 employees:
  Chief Marketing Officer, Senior Director of Volunteerism, Senior Director of Programs, and the Senior Director of Research, Innovation, and Learning.
• Carrying out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization's policies and applicable laws.

• Bachelor’s degree in related field or equivalent work experience; MBA or advanced degree in a related discipline preferred.
• 10+ years of senior organizational leadership experience
• Deep professional knowledge and experience in the camp field preferred.
• Demonstrated experience in operational leadership and…