Hodding Carter YMCA Announces Open Applications for Executive Position
Mar 3, 2022
EXECUTIVE VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT
HODDING CARTER MEMORIAL YMCA
Position: President/CEO
Address: 1688 Fairground Road located in Greenville, Mississippi
The Hodding Carter Memorial YMCA is an equal opportunity employer
committed to valuing diversity and practicing inclusion.
The Hodding Carter Memorial YMCA has a commitment to creating a culture of safety.
Position Description and Board Expectations:
The Hodding Carter Memorial YMCA exists to improve the lives of those in Greenville, Mississippi and empower people to be heathier in spirit, mind, and body. We accomplish this through the programs and services we offer, and through membership to our facility. The Hodding Carter Memorial YMCA has benefited from extraordinary staff leadership and is now seeking an individual to be the Association’s next President and CEO. The CEO is expected to be highly visible in the community, ensuring that the Y remain a highly respected and desired partner with a strong stake in identifying and addressing the solutions for community issues. The Board of Directors is pursuing a visionary with a passion for the YMCA mission and cause, an understanding and relation to rural community values, who relates well with individuals of diverse backgrounds and whose everyday priorities reflect core YMCA values of caring, honesty, respect and responsibility.
Key Priority Areas:
Lead Execution of our Strategic Plan: Work effectively with volunteers, community leaders, and key staff, to execute on the existing strategic plan that addresses the needs of the communities served by the Y in a post-pandemic world. The plan was approved by the board in January 2022. Lead, inspire and mobilize staff, volunteers, and community partners to create a vision that strengthens community for all as the plan is refreshed in the future.
Ensure Long Term Sustainability through Strong Fiscal Management: Use high-level financial analysis to forecast financial trends, growth, and stability, while consistently leading organization to balance or surplus operations by growing earned revenue and contributions and controlling costs. Empower and guide staff leaders to lead their departments to successful financial operation. Quickly address financial issues that may arise, forecast future needs, and manage and direct the Y’s operations to ensure recovery and revitalization post-pandemic. As part of this goal and in alignment with our plan, lead the effort to explore shared services to realize economies of scale and efficiencies.
Expand and Enhance Membership and Program Operations: In alignment with the existing strategic plan, engage the board, staff and community to expand our programs and services by leveraging innovation, creativity, and fiscal responsibility. Ensure safe, relevant and sustainable programs and services are aligned with community needs. Identify key issues and challenges facing the whole community with particular attention to adding or expanding programming that will address the needs of the community and align with the Y’s mission.
Steward Fundraising Efforts: Develop and implement an annual fundraising plan that will establish the YMCA as a leading nonprofit organization within the community through the engagement of members, volunteers, staff, and donors. Identify the need for successful capital fundraising, while taking the organization to a new level of effectiveness and impact in annual giving and endowment. Lead a robust process to assess facility needs and develop a plan with the board to fund replacement efforts to ensure the facility is relevant into the future.
Position the Y as a Vital Partner for Community Change: Serve as an ambassador for the mission, purpose, and vision for the YMCA within the community. Strengthen marketing and communication efforts to tell the story of our mission impact in the community and through the people we serve. Develop and cultivate relationships with key stakeholders from diverse backgrounds, while always upholding the highest standards and values of the Y. Ensure your Y is seen as a leading nonprofit committed to strengthening community by connecting all people to their potential, purpose, and each other.
Minimum Criteria for Candidates:
Experience in a management role with direct supervision of multiple levels of staff.
Must demonstrate excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Must have the ability to develop and strengthen community relationships.
Must demonstrate values consistent with the YMCA mission.
Experience developing new programs and reviewing and enhancing current programs for both fiscal viability and capacity to broaden our engagement in the communities in which we serve.
Preferred Criteria for Candidates:
Possession of a 4-year degree from an accredited college or university.
Current YMCA Organization Leader Certificate (Note: Candidates not already in possession of this certificate has three years to obtain via Y-USA)
Fiscally sound business management approach and a proven track record of budgetary and fiscal management of at least $300,000 annually
Experience in strategic planning and fundraising including annual campaigns. Experience with grant writing and management.
Ability to work with people of diverse cultural background and affect the overall diversity and makeup of the staff and the board to reflect the community which the organization serves.
Salary Range and Benefits:
Salary is Commensurate with experience. Hiring range is $60,000 - $75,000.
Benefits include a defined contribution plan with 12% of salary contributed by the association (when eligibility requirements are met). 100% employer paid health insurance through Blue Cross and 50% employer paid dental coverage through Guardian. The YMCA will pay 75% of the dependent health and dental coverage if so elected. Benefits include a $300.00 per month vehicle and gas allowance and the YMCA pays the monthly fee for the cell phone. Vacation and time off outlined in the personnel handbook.
Hodding Carter Memorial YMCA
Association Facts
The Greenville YMCA opened in 1923. Seven years later the Y relocated to Theobald Street and added an indoor pool. Construction of the current facility was made possible by a generous gift from the Hodding Carter, Jr. family and additional community support. In January 1984 the Hodding Carter Memorial YMCA opened. The YMCA is named in honor of the late Hodding Carter, Jr., Pulitzer Prize Winning Publisher of the Delta Democrat Times.
Hodding Carter Jr., a native son of Louisiana, came to Greenville from Hammond, LA, in 1936 to found a new daily newspaper. Two years later he and his partners bought out the existing daily and created the Delta Democrat-Times. Over the course of the next 34 years he wrote 22 books, over 500 magazine articles and a host of speeches, most of his topics being Southern-based and reform-minded. When he died in 1972 at age 65, he left behind three sons, a national reputation as a crusader for racial justice, and his wife, Betty W. Carter, his indispensable partner in marriage and virtually everything else, from the books to the newspaper. "Our town is different," he once proclaimed in a national magazine article about the town's relative moderation in a time of racist reaction (or segregationist frenzy), and the two Carters spent their lives trying to help Greenville make good of his proud boast.
YMCA Membership and Facility Features Include: As of January 2022, the YMCA had 1181 membership units (2718 members). The facility is 36,000 sq feet on a 13-acre tract of land and includes a 1/3-mile outdoor track, softball field, basketball gym, fitness center, 2 outdoor heated pools, locker rooms, lobby, group exercise, multi-purpose spaces, indoor batting cages. The YMCA was built in 1983, J.D. Rushing Multi-Purpose Bldg. built in 1996. The most recent improvements were in 2017 & 2021.
Programs: Signature programs include health and wellbeing programs such as Moving for Better Balance, Parkinson’s Exercise Program and the Blood Pressure Self-Monitoring Program.
Staff: Currently all staff report to the CEO including 3 FT, 16 PT, 5 seasonal.
Financial: The 2022 budget is $543,000.
Philanthropy: The YMCA raised $48,000 in 2021 toward the annual campaign. The goal for 2022 is $25,000. The YMCA awards $30,000 in financial assistance annually. The YMCA held a capital campaign 7 years ago and raised approximately $510,000. Phase 1 was completed with the addition of two new outdoor pools. Phase 2 & 3 of the campaign were modified to rebuild and improve facilities.
Advantages to Area: Greenville is a city in, and the county seat of, Washington County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 34,400 at the 2010 census. It is located in the area of historic cotton plantations and culture known as the Mississippi Delta. Greenville is the largest port on the Mississippi River and home to many thriving industries. The region is rich in cultural experiences celebrating the Blues and is home to wonderful museums, the Delta Hot Tamale Festival and the Delta Blues & Heritage Festival.
Other Sites for Information:
www.ymcahcm.org
www.wceams.com
www.events@mainstreetgreenville.com
www.visitgreenville.org
www.gghra.org
www.gvillepublicschooldistrict.com
www.generals.ws
www.stjoeirish.org
www.cfwashco.org
www.ymca.org (YMCA of the USA)
Target Dates for the Search Process:
Resumes accepted through: March 31, 2022
Applicant review period: Between April 4 and April 13, 2022
Preliminary interviews scheduled: April 22, 2022
Final interviews: May 10 and May 11, 2022
CEO selection made: Week of May 18, 2022
New CEO on board (anticipated): June 21, 2022
To Apply
Candidates will apply via the following website: https://tinyurl.com/hodding-carter-ymca-ceo
A resume and cover letter, along with four professional and two personal references. Note: references will be checked on final candidates.
Questions Regarding This Position Should be Directed to:
Leighann Sibal
YMCA of the USA – Search Consultant
312-209-3832
Leighann.Sibal@ymca.net
Charles Trammell
Alliance Partner for AL and MS YMCAs
205-704-1671
Charles.Trammell@yalliance.org
Questions about the community can be referred locally upon request.