Competitive Swim Director - Deaconess Aquatic Center

POSITION SUMMARY

This position supports the YMCA of Southwestern Indiana through youth development, healthy living, and social responsibility. The Competitive Swim Director leads the competitive swimming program at the YMCA-managed Deaconess Aquatic Center. Reporting to the Senior Aquatics Director, this position primarily manages community partnerships, relationships with city officials and local swim teams, and swim meet administration. The Director builds a safe, inclusive team culture that balances competitive achievement with swimmer well-being, sportsmanship, and lifelong participation.

OUR CULTURE

We are welcoming, genuine, hopeful, nurturing, and determined. We strengthen community by helping swimmers and families belong, develop their potential, and live the YMCA values of caring, honesty, respect, and responsibility.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

1. Maintain YMCA safety standards at all practices and meets. Enforce aquatic safety, child abuse prevention, appropriate boundaries, and emergency action procedures.

2. Complete required abuse prevention training and promptly report suspected abuse, inappropriate behavior, policy violations, injuries, and incidents through required channels. Ensure coaches and volunteers understand their reporting responsibilities.

3. Lead community relations for competitive swimming at Deaconess Aquatic Center. Connect with city swim teams and high school swim teams, develop partnerships, and coordinate practices, competitions, and facility access.

4. Serve as a consistent point of contact, communicate operational needs, address concerns, and coordinate commitments with the Senior Aquatics Director.

5. Recruit, hire, train, schedule, supervise, the masters swim team coach and other staff as assigned. Recruit, orient, and supervise event volunteers.

6. Plan and coordinate meets, including the competition calendar, eligibility, entries, deadlines with local teams and the Evansville Regional Sports Commission.

7. Coordinate swim meet logistics with the Senior Aquatics Director, facility staff, officials, and volunteers, including pool setup, lane assignments, timing equipment, warm-ups, spectator needs, results, and cleanup.

8. Maintain and manage, registrations, eligibility records, attendance, meet entries, times, and results. Use team management and meet software.

9. Coordinate with Aquatics Director for practice scheduling and pool usage, including lane assignments, to balance competitive swimming with other facility programs, public use, and rentals. Report unsafe facility or equipment conditions promptly.

10. Serve as staff liaison to parent advisory committees. Conduct parent and team meetings, coordinate banquets and recognition activities, communicate schedules and expectations, and address family concerns professionally.

11. Promote and manage group swimming lessons and private lessons.

12. Support team fundraising and the YMCA Annual Support Campaign. Participate in staff meetings, professional development, and program evaluation, and perform other duties assigned by the Senior Aquatics Director.

WORK ENVIRONMENT & PHYSICAL DEMANDS

Work occurs on indoor pool decks, in offices, and at competition venues, with exposure to heat, humidity, noise, and wet surfaces. Requires standing and moving around the deck, observing swimmers, communicating across the pool, using computers and timing systems, and assisting with meet equipment. Must recognize distress and respond according to assigned emergency duties.

Qualifications

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent education and experience. At least two years of competitive swim coaching and staff supervision experience preferred.

• Knowledge of meet administration, competitive and masters swimming.

• Current USA Swimming coach membership in good standing(or within 3 month of hire date), with applicable coach education, safety training, background screening.

• Current lifeguard certification, CPR for the Professional Rescuer, AED, First Aid, and Emergency Oxygen Administration, or ability to obtain within 90 days of hire. Required safety credentials must be current before performing duties that require them.

• Ability to engage volunteers, build relationships with diverse families, and represent the YMCA professionally. Available for regular early morning, evening, and weekend practices and meets.