YMCA Expanded Learning Assistant Site Manager - ASES

Position Summary:

The role of the Assistant Site Manager is to support the Site Manager in the day-to-day operations of the expanded learning program. The Assistant Site Manager will assist the Site Manager with planning, communicating, and executing program activities and events as well as providing administrative support. Furthermore, this position is responsible for creating a safe and welcoming environment with a strong emphasis on program quality and building positive relationships with all stakeholders.

Essential Functions:

• Assist Site Manager with program development, planning, and supervision in accordance with ASES requirements, partner agencies, and YMCA standards.
• Assist Site Manager with supervision of staff and children in the program, curriculum planning and implementation, and public relations.
• Assist Site Manager with accurate counts of all children that attend the program.
• Support planning and implementation of activities that promote family involvement, enrollment, and relationships.
• Ensure the program has necessary supplies and equipment; report any issues to their direct supervisor.
• Prepare and develop lesson plans that are age-appropriate and consistent with the mission of the YMCA.
• Follow site and Association policies and procedures for health, safety, and nutrition.
• Attend all staff meetings, trainings, and other YMCA functions as required by supervisors.
• Maintain open lines of communication with staff, parents, and supervisors.
• Assist Site Manager with supervising part-time employees and volunteers.
• Assist with training and onboarding program staff and volunteers.
• Assist Site Manager with conducting and facilitating regular staff meetings.
• Assist with administrative tasks and ensure all program compliance requirements are met.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

YMCA Competencies (Supervisor):

Mission and Community Oriented: Models honesty, caring, respect and responsibility. Practices inclusion and cross-cultural understanding. Models best practices of engaging and partnering with members and community. Assists in the orientation, training, and development of volunteers.

People Oriented: Uses positional authority appropriately. Effectively engages group dynamics to develop diverse teams. Effectively tailors communications and influence strategies to the audience. Provides staff with feedback, coaching, guidance and support.

Results Oriented: Monitors qualitative and quantitative expectations. Encourages and supports curiosity, creativity, innovation and calculated risk-taking of others. Provides others with frameworks for decision making. Develops plans and manages best practices through engagement of team. Cultivates relationships to generate funds. Effectively creates and manages budgets.

Personal Development Oriented: Manages emotions appropriately. Shares new insights. Facilitates change; models adaptability and an awareness of the impact of change.

Qualifications:

• Must be 18 years of age or older. ?
• High school diploma or equivalent required.
• Additionally, demonstrate proof of 48 completed college units or pass district’s Instructional Aide exam. Childhood Education/Child Development units preferred. ?
• Current CPR and 1st Aid Certification required within first 3 months of employment. ?
• Clear the Live Scan (criminal background check via fingerprinting).
• Health Screening Exam with clear TB test, Negative Drug test screening.
• Complete all required training (s).
• Ability to plan, organize, and implement age-appropriate/developmentally appropriate program activities ?
• Minimum of six-months experience working with and supervising adults. ?
• Experience with MAC and PC format computers is preferred.
• Bilingual with English/Spanish preferred.

Working Conditions:

Environmental Factors: Indoor and outdoor facilities (e.g. childcare and recreational sites); exposure to heat, cold, potentially hazardous chemicals, toxic materials; work on slippery or uneven surfaces. Noise level is usually moderate.?Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls. The employee frequently is required to stoop, bend, kneel, crouch, talk, hear, stand, walk, sit, and reach with hands and arms. The employee must occasionally lift, push, pull, and/or move up to 40 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.