Sports Director
Company: YMCA
Location: Wichita Falls
Posted on: January 13, 2026
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Job Description:
The Sports Director provides leadership to mission driven
employees to ensure excellence in Y best practices. Job Description
The Sports Director provides leadership and support for the YMCA of
Wichita Falls. The Sports Director will recruit and supervise
mission driven employees and ensure excellence in Y best practices
in operation of the Sports department. Regular interaction with
employees, leadership, members, and other business associates in an
outgoing, friendly, and courteous manner is essential. The Program
Director will support the mission, purpose, and goals of the YMCA,
while performing the essential duties and responsibilities.
Qualifications • Bachelor’s degree in Sport and Recreation
Management, Education, or related field preferred. • Highly
motivated, organized, personable, enthusiastic, displaying strong
leadership abilities. • Two year’s Y program experience preferred.
• YMCA Team Leader certification preferred. • Must pass a
background check. Essential Functions · Manages, directs and
supervises the sports/program activities to meet the needs of the
community and fulfill YMCA objectives. · Recruits, hires, trains,
develops, schedules and supervises Sports Department part-time
staff and volunteers. · Monitors daily sports operations to adhere
to all standards set forth by the YMCA of Wichita Falls. · Conducts
and ensures proper maintenance of equipment. Secures and schedules
sports facilities. · Maintains positive relationships with contract
vendors. · Creates new program opportunities in all areas including
those that are underserved in the Wichita Falls community. · Act as
the liaison to community leaders/volunteers and ensure that shared
facilities are upheld to the standards set by both parties. ·
Assists in the marketing and distribution of program information. ·
Ensures risk management practices are exceeded in all aspect of the
Sports Department. · Manages the volunteer training requirements
for all sports and ensures 100% compliance with the required
volunteer training completion. · Develops, manages, and controls
department budgets to meet fiscal objectives. · Work closely with
association leadership to meet established annual campaign and
program sponsorship goals according to YMCA of Wichita Falls
policy. · Serve as Manager on Duty as assigned. · Directly
supervise the scheduling of game day Administrator in Charge and be
in ratio throughout the week for this role. · Must be adaptable to
changing work environment including working a non-typical schedule
including weekends and evenings during sports seasons. Physical
Demands: · Physically able to sit at a computer terminal and enter
data. · Must be able to communicate in a professional manner with
all community stakeholders. · Must be able to lift and carry
objects up to 45lbs independently. Cause-Driven Leadership
Competencies · Mission Advancement: Models and teaches the Y’s
values, ensures a high level of service with a commitment to
changing lives, provides staff and volunteers with orientation,
training, development, and recognition, cultivates relationships to
support fund-raising. · Collaboration: Champions inclusion
activities, strategies, and initiatives, builds relationships to
create small communities, empathetically listens and communicates
for understanding when negotiating and dealing with conflict.
Effectively tailors communications to the appropriate audience;
provides staff and volunteers with feedback, coaching, guidance and
support. · Operational Effectiveness: Provides others with
frameworks for making decisions, conducts prototypes to support the
launching of programs and activities, develops plans and manages
best practices through engagement of team, effectively creates and
manages budgets, holds staff accountable for high-quality results
using a formal process to measure progress. · Personal Growth:
Shares new insights, facilitates change, models adaptability along
with an awareness of the impact of change on others, utilizes
non-threatening methods to address sensitive issues and
inappropriate behavior or performance, has the functional and
technical knowledge and skills required to perform well, uses best
practices and demonstrates up-to-date knowledge and skills in
technology.
Keywords: YMCA, Wichita Falls , Sports Director, IT / Software / Systems , Wichita Falls, Texas
