Executive Director

Job Details

Job Location:

Torrance South Bay Family YMCA - Torrance, CA 90505

Position Type:
Full Time Salary Range: $ - $ Salary/year Travel Percentage:
Up to 50% Job Shift: Any Job Category:
Executive YMCA OF METROPOLITAN LOS ANGELES

Oversees the total operation of a YMCA Center, including membership, marketing, programs, facilities, volunteer and staff development, financial development, community relations and collaborations with community agencies.

• Align the work of staff and volunteers to the Center and Association’s Center for Community Well-Being strategy framework.
• Establish and implement an annual operating plan:
  Working with staff, volunteers, and metropolitan management, develop an overall operating plan for the coming year including goals, timelines and expected results.
• Effectively operate the facility and all program activities:
  Manage the facility on a daily basis, ensuring that regular activities and special programs run smoothly. Establish appropriate management tracking methods to ensure that the Center performs effectively in all key areas.
• Address Specific Problem Areas:
  Identify and correct areas in which the Center is under-performing. Organize task forces as necessary to address these issues.
• Represents and promotes the YMCA in the local community and develops positive working relationships with other organizations, businesses, and governmental entities. Develops, maintains, and models collaborative relationships with community agencies in service delivery area.
• Directs the financial development activities of the Center and achieves fund raising goals.
• Develop and support a year-round fund raising program that includes the annual current support campaign; donor acquisition activity; stewardship of donors; special events, planning giving and capital gifts.
• Support and engage in a structured major donor cultivation strategy that yields annually minimum number of major giftsto support Center annual operating, capital, and endowment needs.
• Develop and support a long-range capital development plan including needs and sources of funds that guarantees maintaining all facilities in a like-new condition.
• Build the Center endowment by increasing the number of members making an irrevocable gift commitment.
• Oversees the hiring, training, supervision and evaluation of staff.
• Recruit and hire staff using screening tools and panel interviews to gain the best possible fit with each opening.
• See to it that all staff members have development plans and that funding for training is allocated and used appropriately.
• Identify career candidates and work an active plan to support their development and advancement
• Develops, manages, and monitors the Center operating budget and ensures budget targets are met or exceeded.
• Directs Center strategic planning efforts and develops the annual operating plan of the Center.
• Develop and control long and short-term budgets designed to support the achievement of the strategic plan.
• Provide adequate cash balances and net assets to appropriately fund reserves, and maintain fixed assets.
• Develops and directs high quality relationship-based member engagement strategies. Models relationship-building skills (including Listen First) in all interactions with staff, volunteers, members, and the community.
• Serve as staff officer to the Center Board of Managers and ensures that the experience of serving on the Board is satisfying.
• Lead a Board development effort that builds its capacity to help the Center achieve its strategic goals.
• Ensure that each committee has appropriate staff leadership along with benchmarks and charts of work that are aligned with the strategic plan.
• Enable the board to participate in implementation of the strategic plan by…