Healthy Living Director

Job description / Role

Responsibilities:
• Ensure your department’s financial benchmarks (+/- 3%) of budget to actual by, effectively managing day to day operations, driving revenue, and monitoring departmental expenses.
• Enable proactive, clear, effective and timely internal communications in order to ensure a positive and consistent member experience.
• Identify, collect and interpret data so that it enables informed decision making and ensures the achievement of key performance indicators.
• Represents and participates in YMCA community outreach and sales efforts using strategies driven by the West Cook YMCA mission.
• Manages all aspects of the sub-departments of the Healthy Living Department including Fitness, Chronic Disease Prevention and Sports, by ensuring facility and equipment safety, quality programming, effective scheduling, appropriate staffing ratios, and completion of required training.
• Advises the CEO to ensure operational growth of WCY on program expansion, member recruitment and retention, pricing strategies, new site development, collaborations, and mergers and acquisitions.
• Develops and maintains collaborative relationships with community organizations within the service area in accordance with strategic and operating plans.
• Models relationship building skills in all interactions with members, staff, volunteers, and the community.
• Implements solutions to challenging situations through analytical reasoning and/or research.
• Serves on the Leadership Team, Program Innovation Team, and the Grant Writing Team.
• Assists in YMCA fundraising activities and special events.

Benefits:
• Attractive Salary Package

Requirements

Qualifications:
• Bachelor’s degree in Public Health, Recreation Management, Exercise Science, or related field
• Minimum of 3-5 years of prior YMCA supervisory and training experience
• Proven track record in program development, implementing new health initiatives, leading, motivating, and inspiring others in successfully achieving their health and wellness goals
• Exceptional communication skills and the ability to relate effectively to diverse groups of people from all social and economic backgrounds
• Current CPR, First Aid, AED certification
• Current national (YMCA, ACSM, ACE, NASM, or AFAA) personal training and group exercise certification

About the Company

Dragon Recruiting is a leading international staffing and recruitment company, head-quartered in London, with further offices all over the globe. Our clients range from numerous well known UK and international businesses. We also represent a wide range of less well known clients - helping them to find staff for their businesses around the world.

As an international recruitment agency, our clients benefit from a vast network of human resource specialists who attract, cultivate and connect organisations to talent in both global and local markets. Our unrivalled

scope of services and global reach allow us to share candidates and roles across borders. With greater coverage and tools, we can ensure our clients and candidates all get the best outcome for their recruitment needs.

With experience of over 3 decades we are recruiting more than 10,000 workers annually to and from the UK, USA and the Middle East and several other Asian countries. We specialize in the placement of candidates in permanent, contract, temporary and interim positions with clients around the world.