EXECUTIVE VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT CHAMPAIGN FAMILY YMCA Position: Chief Executive Officer
Address: 191 Community Dr, Urbana, OH 43078
The Champaign Family YMCA is an equal opportunity employer committed to valuing diversity and practicing inclusion. The Opportunity: This is an extraordinary opportunity to lead a mission-driven YMCA in a vibrant community. As the new Chief Executive Officer (CEO), you will join a dedicated team of passionate individuals who share a deep commitment to serving their community.
The ideal candidate is an innovative, strategic thinker with a strong community orientation. As CEO, you will foster trust, expand the YMCA's reach, and build collaborative relationships that enhance our reputation and further our mission. A cornerstone of this role is ensuring the safety and well-being of young people, which is fundamental to our organization. You will create a culture of safety for all by exceeding standards and maintaining compliance.
Key Skills and Abilities of Our Next CEO: The board believes its new CEO should be an experienced leader who has the background and qualities that will permit him or her to achieve excellence in the following six areas:
Position the Y as a Vital Partner for Community Change: Serve as an ambassador for the mission, purpose, and vision for the YMCA within the community. Possess the ability to develop and cultivate relationships with key stakeholders from diverse backgrounds, while always upholding the highest standards and values of the Y. Ensure your Y is seen as a leading nonprofit committed to strengthening the community by connecting all people to their potential, purpose, and each other. Key competencies: Communication & Influence, Engaging Community, Collaboration Steward Fundraising Efforts: Develop and implement an annual fundraising plan that will establish the YMCA as a leading nonprofit organization within the community through the engagement of members, volunteers, staff, and donors. Identify the need for successful capital fundraising, while taking the organization to a new level of effectiveness and impact in annual giving and endowment. Key competencies: Philanthropy, Engaging Community, Communication & Influence Fiscal Management: Use high-level financial analysis to forecast financial trends, growth and stability, while consistently leading the organization to balance or surplus operations by growing earned revenue and contributions and controlling costs. Empower and guide staff leaders to lead their departments to successful financial operation. Develop and implement stewardship strategies. Key competencies: Fiscal Management, Critical Thinking & Decision Making, Developing Self & Others, Philanthropy Improve Operating Performance: Engage the board and appropriate staff to develop an annual tactical plan for identifying and achieving key goals and objectives towards operating with safe, relevant, and sustainable practices. Quickly address issues that may arise, forecast future needs, and manage and direct the Y's operations and activities. Key competencies: Developing Self & Others, Critical Thinking & Decision Making, Innovation Develop and Implement a Strategic Plan: Work effectively with volunteers, community leaders, and key staff, to create and develop a strategic plan that addresses the needs of the communities served by the Y and include defined organizational strategies, a clear implementation plan with deliverables, and measurable goals. Key competencies: Change Leadership, Communication & Influence, Critical Thinking & Decision Making, Program/Project Management Build and Lead Staff: Ensure a talent development system is in place and executed in affirming, culturally competent and effective staff. Hire, motivate, nurture, retain, and hold staff accountable for key objectives. Work towards recruiting, retaining, developing, and promoting staff that represent the diversity of the communities you serve. Encourage the team by creating a spirit of camaraderie, inclusion, and sense of mission and purpose. Create a learning organization to help staff achieve their highest potential. Key competencies: Developing Self & Others, Inclusion, Emotional Maturity, Change Leadership About the YMCA The Champaign Family YMCA meets the youth development, fitness, childcare, and recreational needs and interests of over 5,000 people who live and work in Champaign County via programs and services at the well-maintained facility in Urbana, large day care operation and more than twelve off-site program centers in the County, and an 80-acre day camp property.
Our Mission: To put Christian principles into practice through programs that build a healthy spirit, mind, and body for all.
Our Vision: An inclusive community where lives are changed one person at a time.
Our Cause & Values: To strengthen the foundations of community and instilling the values of caring, honesty, respect, and responsibility.
Criteria for candidates: 1.Accredited 4-year college degree and or equivalent work experience.
2.Fiscally sound business management approach with a proven track record of budgetary and fiscal management more than $1M or more annually.
3.Minimum five years prior experience in a senior management role with a YMCA or related experience at a comparable organization with direct supervision of multiple levels of staff and employees.
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