## Responsibilities
- Lead and sustain the Associations Community Wellbeing strategy, aligned with the YMCA of San Diego County logic model, Theory of Change, and strategic roadmap.
- Drive association-wide strategies to expand reach, engagement, retention, and impact across programs and membership using data, analytics, and predictive insights.
- Provide leadership for local, state, and national community wellbeing initiatives, including participation in the Y Wellbeing Network and regional and national collaboratives.
- Develop and steward strategic partnerships and diversified funding streams, including public and private funding, third-party payer arrangements, and medical reimbursements.
- Design and lead a Wellbeing Framework grounded in evidence-based practices, community-centered programming, integrated service delivery, and social determinants of health.
- Integrate community wellbeing strategy into Association operations, establishing measurable goals, KPIs, and outcomes across branches, camps, and CSS.
- Lead development of an association-wide service delivery model, aligning culture, team wellbeing, learning and development, community bridging and belonging, and participant engagement.
- Oversee evaluation, impact measurement, and continuous quality improvement (CQI) aligned with PYD, health intervention models, and the Association Theory of Change.
- Partner with executive leadership and Development to advance strategy, secure funding, and scale community wellbeing efforts at the Association, state, and national levels.
- Establish membership growth best practices that position membership as a driver of individual and community wellbeing through training, engagement, and data-informed strategies.
- Demonstrated ability to cultivate strategic partnerships that advance and strengthen support for the YMCA of San Diego County.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to engage diverse audiences clearly and effectively.
- Demonstrated commitment to applying a strengths-based approach to improve existing practices and support effective change management.
- Highly skilled in change management and emotional intelligence, fostering trust, adaptability, and engagement across stakeholders.
- Proven ability to apply an organizational lens to community wellbeing initiatives, ensuring relevance, alignment, and cross-functional application.
- Experience developing association-wide strategic plans, including research, community listening sessions, evaluations, outcome measurement, and continuous quality improvement (CQI).
- Demonstrated experience collaborating with public and private partners at the local, state, and national levels.
- Strong project management skills, with the ability to lead cross-functional teams toward a shared community wellbeing approach.
- Effective collaborator with a track record of building alignment, managing change, and advancing Association-wide initiatives.
- Other duties as assigned.
## Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree is required and
Master's degree is preferred
- 10+ years' of executive level experience required, including leadership of collective impact efforts and systems-level change initiatives
- 8+ years' of experience within the relevant functional area
- Licensing, state law and our government funders require that staff within YMCA of San Diego County be fingerprinted, prior to reporting to work, and include
subsequent
arrest notifications
- [CPR/AED, and First Aid Certification, must include Adult and Child/Infant, obtained within30 daysofhireand must be from one of the following certifying organizations: ]{contrast="auto"}
- American Red Cross
- American Heart Association
- American Safety and Health Institute
