Child Care Program Manager - Mid County YMCA

Gateway Region YMCA; St. Louis (MO); On-site; USD 55,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Gateway Region YMCA in the St. Louis area seeks a hands-on Program Director to lead child care and community programs. You will work with the director to determine current needs for the program, ensure policies are followed, and manage budgets and staff across locations.

The role emphasizes program quality, safety, participation tracking, and collaboration with schools and community groups to expand services and impact.

Qualifications

• Planning and coordinating a program and its activities.
• Ensuring policies and procedures are implemented.
• Maintaining budgets and tracking expenditures/transactions.
• Managing communications through media relations, social media, etc.

Responsibilities

• Support planning and coordination of a program and its activities.
• Works with director to determine current needs for program.
• Ensure implementation of policies and procedures.
• Maintain budget and track expenditures/transactions.
• Manage communication through media relations, social media, etc. Schedule and organize meetings/events and maintain agenda.
• Support growth and program development.
• Manages, directs and coordinates the child care programs for assigned location(s).
• Ensures high quality programs and establishes new program activities.
• Expands program within the community in accordance with strategic and operating plans.
• Recruits, hires, trains, develops, schedules and directs personnel and volunteers as needed.
• Reviews and evaluates staff performance.
• Develops strategies to motivate staff and achieve goals.
• Develops, manages and controls budgets related to the position.
• Ensures program operates within budget and that program fees are collected.
• Supports and budgets for healthy eating through coaching, mentoring, and monitoring menu quality.
• Assures compliance with federal, state and local regulations as they relate to program areas, including ADA accommodations where appropriate.
• Ensures that YMCA program standards are met and safety procedures followed.
• Provides for upkeep of assigned program facilities and equipment and ensures the physical environment supports healthy living.
• Develops and maintains relationships with state child care licensing agency, school administration, parent groups and other organizations and agencies related to assigned programs.
• Responds to all agency, parent and community inquiries and complaints in a timely manner.
• Provides staff leadership for annual fund raising campaign and committees as assigned.
• Compiles program statistics.
• Monitors and evaluates the effectiveness of and participation in program.
• Performs all other duties as assigned.

Skills

Program planning

Budget management

Staff leadership

Community outreach

Communication

Policy implementation

Job description

The Gateway Region YMCA is one of the leading nonprofit charitable organizations in the St. Louis metropolitan region, with a focus on nurturing the potential of every child and teen, improving health and well being, and supporting and serving our neighbors. For more than 170 years, the Ys mission has been to put Christian principles into practice through programs designed to build healthy spirits, minds and bodies for all. We do that by being the center of communities, serving more than 260,000 individuals annually through our 24 traditional branches located in St. Louis City, seven Missouri counties and six Illinois counties, as well as YMCA Trout Lodge and YMCA Camp Lakewood, the YMCA Community Development Branch, and our Washington University Campus Y Branch. We aspire to be a safe place by promoting diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging for all. We are a growing and exciting organization where you can flourish, and we would love for you to join us!

• Support planning and coordination of a program and its activities.
• Works with director to determine current needs for program.
• Ensure implementation of policies and procedures.
• Maintain budget and track expenditures/transactions.
• Manage communication through media relations, social media, etc Schedule and organize meetings/events and maintain agenda.
• Support growth and program development.
• Manages, directs and coordinates the child care programs for assigned location(s).
• Ensures high quality programs and establishes new program activities.
• Expands program within the community in accordance with strategic and operating plans.
• Recruits, hires, trains, develops, schedules and directs personnel and volunteers as needed.
• Reviews and evaluates staff performance.
• Develops strategies to motivate staff and achieve goals.
• Develops, manages and controls budgets related to the position.
• Ensures program operates within budget and that program fees are collected.
• Supports and budgets for healthy eating through coaching, mentoring, and monitoring menu quality.
• Assures compliance with federal, state and local regulations as they relate to program areas, including ADA accommodations where appropriate.
• Ensures that YMCA program standards are met and safety procedures followed.
• Provides for upkeep of assigned program facilities and equipment and ensures the physical environment supports healthy living.
• Develops and maintains relationships with state child care licensing agency, school administration, parent groups and other organizations and agencies related to assigned programs.
• Responds to all agency, parent and community inquiries and complaints in a timely manner.
• Provides staff leadership for annual fund raising campaign and committees as assigned.
• Compiles program statistics.
• Monitors and evaluates the effectiveness of and participation in program.
• Performs all other duties as assigned.

The YMCA Welcomes a Diverse Workforce Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/D/V The Gateway Region YMCA strictly follows a zero tolerance policy regarding child abuse.