Youth and Family Event Host -Grove YMCA

Young Mens Christian Association of Central Ohio

As a Youth and Family Event Host, you will create safe, fun, and engaging experiences that bring families and the community together. From leading STEM Nights, Family Game Nights, and Parents Night Out to supporting Y and community events, you’ll play a key role in fostering youth development, healthy living, and social responsibility. This position combines hands‑on program delivery with relationship‑building, ensuring participants and families feel connected and supported through meaningful activities at the YMCA.

• Thinks, communicates and behaves as a cause‑driven leader and role model for other staff and members, promoting youth development, healthy living, and social responsibility in all job‑related functions.
• Leads energizing, fun, safe, and educational classes/practices/games as directed by the supervisor to accomplish the YMCA mission and goals.
• Answers questions from participants/parents to support them in achieving their goals related to youth development.
• Maintains working knowledge of sport/activity and trends to provide effective information and support to participants.
• Builds effective, authentic relationships with students and parents; helps them connect with each other and the YMCA; encourages parent involvement and identifies potential volunteers.
• Conveys information on sports/activity programs and schedules, and, as appropriate, refers participants and parents to other programs.
• Keeps accurate class records (attendance and progress reports).
• Follows YMCA policies and procedures; responds to emergency situations; prepares and maintains field/gym area before and after program; organizes and puts away class equipment; reports damaged equipment.
• Officiates sport/activity matches and games as scheduled.
• Assists in supervision of volunteers involved in sport or activity.

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; run; use hands to finger, handle, or feel;

reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee occasionally is required to sit. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include distance vision, and depth perception. Depending on the sport/activity, the employee may be frequently exposed to outside weather conditions.

The noise level in the work environment can be loud.