Lake Wenatchee YMCA Director

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Promote a positive environment that fosters fun, safety, and our YMCA values, while upholding modeling, and promoting safety and program policies, personnel policies, and the YMCA Code of Conduct.
• Generate revenue to support Lake Wenatchee YMCA Camp through user groups and facility rentals.
• Secure group and event rentals.
• Facilitate and/or secure staff for team building retreat sessions.
• Ensure rentals are adequately staffed, and each group receives a quality experience.
• Design and implement a marketing plan to increase awareness of campus opportunities.
• Prepare and analyze participation trends.
• Develop and implement recruitment and retention strategies.
• Work with the Marketing Coordinator to promote rentals using a variety of marketing outlets.
• Maintains relationships with participating families, local school committees, school administrators, teachers and students to promote camp and trip programs.
• Oversee property development and maintenance to ensure safe, compliant, and well-maintained facilities, while supporting long-term planning and stewardship of organizational assets.
• Design, deliver and evaluate safe, high-quality rental experiences aligned with YMCA values while ensuring compliance, strong participant experiences, efficient registration and accurate recordkeeping.
• Recruit, hire, train, supervise, and support facility staff and volunteers to ensure effective operations and high-quality service delivery.
• Manage financial and fund development activities, including budgeting, vendor contracts, and support for long-term fundraising strategies in partnership with CEO and YMCA leadership.
• Observe participant behavior, assess appropriateness, enforce appropriate safety regulations and emergency procedures, apply appropriate management techniques.
• Assist with any Wenatchee Valley YMCA special events or programs; in particular, membership, program or major donor events such as the Annual Campaign and Community Benefit Events.
• Serve on LWY Camp Advisory and Outdoor Recreation Program Committees as assigned.
• Coordinate and engage volunteers.

YMCA COMPETENCIES (TEAM LEADER):

Mission Advancement: Models and teaches the Ys values. Ensures a high level of service with a commitment to changing lives. Provides volunteers with orientation, training, development, and recognition. Cultivates relationships to support fund-raising.

Collaboration: Champions inclusion activities, strategies, and initiatives. Builds relationships to create small communities. Empathetically listens and communicates for understanding when negotiating and dealing with conflict. Effectively tailors communications to the appropriate audience. Provides staff with feedback, coaching, guidance and support.

Operational Effectiveness: Provides others with frameworks for making decisions. Conducts prototypes to support the launching of programs and activities. Develops plans and manages best practices through engagement of team. Effectively creates and manages budgets. Holds staff accountable for high-quality results using a formal process to measure progress.

Personal Growth: Shares new insights. Facilitates change; models adaptability and an awareness of the impact of change. Utilizes non-threatening methods to address sensitive issues and inappropriate behavior or performance. Has the functional and technical knowledge and skills required to perform well; uses best practices and demonstrates up-to-date knowledge and skills in technology.