Youth Achievement Operations Director

YMCA of Metropolitan Fort Worth Employment Application

The YMCA of Metropolitan Fort Worth is seeking an experienced, purpose-driven, and innovative leader to serve as the Youth Achievement Operations Director. The YMCA is committed to strengthening communities through youth development, healthy living, and social responsibility.
Under the direction of the District Executive Director, the Youth Achievement Operations Director provides strategic, programmatic, and operational leadership for the YMCA’s comprehensive Youth Achievement portfolio. This includes 59 after school sites, grant-funded youth programs, Youth & Government, Reach & Rise Mentor Program, 11 Day Camp, and Specialty Camps.
The Director directly supervises and develops three full-time Senior Program Directors who provide leadership across the organization’s program areas and sites. Through these leaders, the Director establishes clear expectations, strengthens program quality, develops staff capacity, and creates systems that support consistent, high-quality experiences for children, youth, families, and staff.
This position is both a strategic leader and an active program leader. The Director maintains a visible presence within programs and at program sites, developing a firsthand understanding of the experiences of participants, families, and staff. The Director uses this knowledge, along with program data, feedback, research, and emerging trends, to continuously evaluate and improve the YMCA’s programs.
A key responsibility of this role is ensuring that YMCA programming remains relevant, engaging, inclusive, developmentally appropriate, and responsive to the changing needs of children, youth, families, and communities. The Director stays current on trends and emerging practices in school-age childcare, out-of-school time, youth development, mentoring, summer camp, and related fields and translates that knowledge into meaningful program improvements and new opportunities.

The Director serves as a developer of people and programs—coaching and mentoring Senior Program Directors, strengthening leadership pipelines, supporting professional development, and building a culture in which staff are equipped and empowered to deliver exceptional youth experiences.

Our mission and core values are brought to life through our culture. They reflect who we are, who we aspire to be, and how we show up every day. We are cause-driven and approach our work with purpose.

• Welcoming:
  Accepts neighbors eagerly, warmly, hospitably, and as equal participants.
• Nurturing:
  Cares for, supports, and helps others develop through encouragement.
• Hopeful:
  Maintains an optimistic and positive view of future outcomes.
• Determined:
  Devotes full strength and focused attention to the YMCA’s cause.
• Genuine:
  Builds honest, open, and authentic relationships with others.

Join us and help transform lives!

• Provide strategic leadership for Youth Achievement programs, ensuring alignment with the YMCA’s mission, community needs, and youth-development best practices.
• Establish and monitor consistent standards for program quality, safety, participant engagement, family communication, and customer service across all locations.
• Maintain a visible presence at program sites and use observations, feedback, enrollment data, quality assessments, and program outcomes to identify and implement improvements.
• Lead the development of innovative, inclusive, and developmentally appropriate programs that strengthen participant and family connections to the YMCA.

• Supervise, coach, and develop three Senior Program Directors responsible for Youth Achievement programs and 59 after-school sites.
• Establish clear goals,…