What are the responsibilities and job description for the Community Health Director position at Southeastern Indiana YMCA?
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.
CAREERS INSPIRED TO LEAD
CAREERS INSPIRED TO LEAD
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.
Principal Responsibilities
- 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 qualified instructors and trainers. Maintain credentialing, safety, continuing education, emergency readiness, and service standards. Support fitness equipment planning and forecasting. Obtain instructor-trainer certification to teach YMCA staff CPR, First Aid, and AED.
- Financial, Marketing, & Organizational Leadership: Partner with Marketing to promote programs, educate providers, recruit participants, and communicate community impact. Pursue grants, contracts, donations, and other funding opportunities while supporting related budgets and reporting. Lead or support mission-aligned health, wellness, and community events, serve as Manager on Duty, participate in the Annual Campaign, and contribute to association-wide planning and leadership.
- Other Duties: Assigned as necessary by the Membership & Operations Director.
Training, Skills, Knowledge and/or Experience
Required Education and Experience
- Bachelor's degree in public health, community health, health promotion, nursing, healthcare administration, population health, exercise science, social work, or a closely related field; an equivalent combination of relevant education and experience may be considered.
- At least two (2) years of experience in community health, chronic disease prevention or management, population health, clinical-community partnerships, healthcare operations, wellness leadership, or a related field.
- At least two (2) years of staff supervision, program leadership, or cross-functional team leadership.
- Demonstrated experience developing, evaluating, and improving health programs; using data to demonstrate results; and building effective partnerships with clinical, community, and organizational stakeholders.
- Strong knowledge of privacy and secure health-information practices, along with budgeting, project management, communication, organizational, and technology skills; experience with referral, care-coordination, membership, or outcomes platforms is preferred.
- First Aid, CPR, and AED certification obtained within 30 days of employment and maintained throughout employment. In addition, Instructor-Trainer certification in CPR, First Aid, and AED.
Preferred Education, Credentials, and Background
- Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES).
- Registered Nurse (RN) or other relevant licensed health-professional background, particularly with care management, community health, population health, nursing leadership, or chronic disease experience.
- Relevant clinical exercise, health coaching, or chronic disease credentials, such as ACSM Certified Clinical Exercise Physiologist or Exercise Physiologist, NBC-HWC, ACE Health Coach, CDC-recognized National Diabetes Prevention Program Lifestyle Coach training, or comparable YMCA credentials.
- Grant development, contract management, payer relationships, reimbursement strategy, or value-based care collaboration.
Core Competencies
- Community: Delivers the benefits of good health, strong connections, greater self-confidence, and a sense of security to all who seek it through relationships, connection, and engagement.
- Innovation: Participates in the generation, experimentation, and implementation of new approaches and activities that improve and expand the Y’s mission and work.
- Communication & Influence: Listens and expresses self effectively and in a way that engages, inspires, and builds commitment to the Y’s cause.
- Program/Project Management: Ensures program or project goals are met and intended impact occurs.
- Collaboration: Develops strategies to ensure staff and volunteers reflect the community while continuing to build and nurture strategic relationships.
BENEFITS WE OFFER
- Full-Time Status
- Paid Time Off & Holiday pay
- Competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits program (Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance, Company Paid Employee Life Insurance, Short-Term Disability, Parental Leave)
- 401(a) retirement plan with a 12% employer contribution
- Paid Family Membership
- Childcare Discount
- Discount on SIYMCA Programs
WHAT SETS US APART
Employee Development: We offer professional development opportunities through on-site education sessions and TEACH Scholarships available to eligible employees for the pursuit of an early childhood education degree or certification.
We Take Care of Our Team: Our comprehensive benefits plan offers resources for team members to maintain emotional, physical, and financial well-being.
We Support Each Other: Our mission is to put Christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind and body for all. We carry that mission through to our team in offering a supportive and collaborative work environment.
We Celebrate Each Other: We work hard to support our communities and encourage our progress along the way. We offer team building and employee recognition programs that energize and inspire our work individually and as a team.
SIYMCA provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type with regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity of expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
Employee Development: We offer professional development opportunities through on-site education sessions and TEACH Scholarships available to eligible employees for the pursuit of an early childhood education degree or certification.
We Take Care of Our Team: Our comprehensive benefits plan offers resources for team members to maintain emotional, physical, and financial well-being.
We Support Each Other: Our mission is to put Christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind and body for all. We carry that mission through to our team in offering a supportive and collaborative work environment.
We Celebrate Each Other: We work hard to support our communities and encourage our progress along the way. We offer team building and employee recognition programs that energize and inspire our work individually and as a team.
SIYMCA provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type with regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity of expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
Benefits:
Gym Membership, Employee Discounts, Job TrainingSalary : $43,979 - $71,537