Executive Director | YMCA Camp Kanata

POSITION SUMMARY: The Overnight Camp Executive Director of Camp Kanata serves as the strategic and operational leader of a premier YMCA overnight camp, driving community engagement, staff development, and program excellence.

This role is responsible for cultivating strong community partnerships, leading high-performing teams, and ensuring alignment with the YMCA of the Triangles mission and strategic goals.

The Executive Director oversees camp year-round operations, summer overnight programming, staff development, financial performance, philanthropic growth, and facility management while fostering a culture of innovation, inclusion, and impact.

As a visible ambassador of the YMCA, the Executive Director champions the organizations values and advances its presence and influence within the community.

They are responsible for managing the functions of the program in accordance with the stated mission, goals, and policies established by the administrative staff, governing committees, and Board of Directors of the YMCA.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: Drives Strategic Community Engagement Serves as a leading and public-facing voice and presence in the community, cultivating strategic partnerships with local organizations, chambers of commerce, businesses, schools, and governments, strengthening the Ys community connection, mission advancement, and alignment with regional needs in close collaboration with the Association Resource Center.

Leads and Empowers High-Performing Teams Provides and executes visionary strategic and tactical leadership to the Overnight Camp Leadership Team and broader camp staff, modeling and fostering a collaborative approach to our work through inclusive and proactive decision-making, consistent communication, evaluation and evolution, and high-impact team development strategies that drive quality, relevancy, and excellence across programs.

Stewards an Engaged and Diverse Advisory Board Leads the development and engagement of the Overnight Camp Advisory Board, recruiting and onboarding diverse and inclusive, mission-aligned board memberspartners with the Association Resource Center to provide strategic guidance for advisory board-driven initiatives that strengthen the branchs community impact in alignment with the YMCA of the Triangles goals and objectives.

Champions Talent Development and Growth Recruits, develops, andretainsexceptional, diverse staff teams.

Builds a strong leadership pipeline through intentional onboarding, strategic coaching, and performance development that cultivates a mission-driven, quality-focused branch workforce and culture.

Ensures Operational Collaboration and Alignment In partnership with the YMCA of the Triangle, subject matter experts, enterprise-wide departments, and other branches activelyseekand collaborate on the design, delivery, evaluation, and innovation of overnight camp and association programs and community initiatives.

Leads Philanthropic Growth and Volunteer Engagement Partners with the Phil...