Community Health Director

Our YMCA is a valuable community asset that works to ensure everyone can learn, grow, and thrive. The southeastern Indiana YMCA owes its excellent reputation and its success to its greatest asset: its people and their knowledge, skills, dedication, experience, enthusiasm, and loyalty. We strive to attract and retain passionate people who want to live out our mission and make a difference in the communities we serve.

We invite you to be a part of our team.

The Community Health Director leads the YMCA’s efforts to improve community health outcomes by developing, implementing, evaluating, and growing evidence-informed chronic disease prevention and management initiatives while overseeing the Y’s wellness programs, staff, and facilities. This position builds partnerships with hospitals, health systems, medical providers, public-health agencies, payers, employers, and community organizations to expand access to integrated health and wellness services.

The Director also advances secure referral, data-exchange, and outcomes-reporting processes through HISP, health information exchange, electronic referral, and related software solutions to support coordinated programming with medical partners. In addition, the Director supervises the Wellness Coordinator and provides leadership for group exercise, personal training, staff development, and member experience, with accountability for program quality, equitable access, measurable impact, financial stewardship, and sustainable growth consistent with the YMCA’s mission.

• Community Health Strategy & Program Growth:
  Assess community health needs and service gaps using local data, participant feedback, partner input, and YMCA priorities. Develop, implement, evaluate, and grow evidence-informed chronic disease programs, including diabetes prevention, blood-pressure control, healthy weight, cancer survivorship, mobility, and falls prevention. Establish clear referral, enrollment, delivery, safety, and follow-up processes while building sustainable funding through grants, contracts, fees, reimbursement opportunities, and partner support.
  
  Ensure programs are accessible, culturally responsive, and inclusive of individuals facing financial, transportation, language, disability, or other barriers.
• Healthcare Partnerships & Integrated Delivery:
  Build partnerships with healthcare providers, public-health agencies, payers, and other referral organizations to develop integrated community health programs. Establish clear roles, referral criteria, communication, consent, clinical escalation, and shared outcome measures, including secure closed-loop referral and reporting processes. Represent the YMCA in community health and population-health initiatives while ensuring clinical decisions and services remain within the scope of appropriately licensed professionals.
• Health Technology, Data, & Evaluation:
  Lead technology solutions that support secure referrals, enrollment, care coordination, outcomes tracking, and partner reporting, including connections with health information exchange programs. Ensure appropriate privacy, security, agreements, access controls, and staff training. Develop dashboards and reports to evaluate participation, access, outcomes, partner satisfaction, and financial performance, using data to improve programs, guide resources, meet funding requirements, and communicate community impact.
• Staff Leadership & Development:
  Lead wellness operations through the Wellness Coordinator, ensuring effective scheduling, program quality, documentation, and member support. Oversee group exercise, personal training, wellness orientations, health coaching, and specialty programs; recruit, develop, and retain…