Aquatic Director - South Tampa Family YMCA

Let the next step in your career be a footprint in the sands of sunny Tampa Bay, Florida.

Job Description

Nestled in one of Tampa's most prestigious neighborhoods and just blocks from the historic Bayshore Boulevard, the South Tampa YMCA is home to the newly renovated Carol Kennedy Aquatics Center, featuring three outstanding pools. Members can achieve their fitness goals in the 25-meter lap pool, relax and rejuvenate in the heated therapy pool, or enjoy sunny afternoons in the zero-entry family pool, complete with a refinished waterslide. Recent enhancements to the aquatic center’s buildings and pump systems ensure the new leader will inherit a well-maintained, fully operational facility—allowing them to prioritize staff development, elevate member experiences, and drive program growth. Click this link to see a video of this amazing aquatics facility. https://vimeo.com/535532737/a9df7dae90

Qualifications

Education/Experience Required:

• Bachelor's degree in Sports Management, Recreation, Health Sciences, Physical Education or related field or equivalent experience preferred.
• Minimum of three (3) years of aquatic or similar with supervisor experience preferred.
• Experience working in a Y (or similar) 3,000 unit membership base organization supervising or serving in a leadership role preferred
• Supervision of budget exceeding $2,000,000 preferred (or equivalent budgeting and/or goal achievement)
• Proven results in increasing program quality and growth through exceptional planning and organizational skills.
• Highly motivated with the ability to meet or exceed goals, cultivate and retain program participants.
• Demonstrated ability to multi-task and adapt to changing contexts and priorities.
• Strong analytical and critical-thinking skills with the ability to identify and leverage relevant data to use in planning and decision-making.
• Strategic planning and tactical execution experience that resulted in achievement of goals
• Excellent personal computer skills and experience with standard business software
• Must be able to work flexible hours including evenings, weekends, and holidays
• Ability to relate effectively to diverse groups of people from all social and economic segments of the community
  
  

Essential Functions

Under the direction of the Center Executive Director and responsible to the Association Aquatics Executive, the Senior Aquatics Director leads center aquatics staff in playing an integral role in attracting, engaging and retaining members. This position serves on the center management team, playing an integral role in membership acquisition, engagement, aquatic program quality, and retention. The position will provide supervision to the aquatics staff, giving superior program quality, ensuring all programs support membership, increasing program enrollments, and enhancing the member and participant experience. This position ensures that their teams operate efficiently and employs a continuous improvement model to meet and/or exceed goals for member/participant satisfaction, financial management and overall growth.

Critical areas of expertise include: leading others and working in teams, highly organized program management, delivering and managing programs focusing on quality, proven results in growth in programs, successfully overseeing part-time/full-time teams and interviewing, hiring and onboarding associates.