Kirkcaldy YMCA is a company limited by guarantee with charitable status. Similar to each YMCA, we are an individual, autonomous, self-governing entity that affiliates to the national voice of the Scottish National Councils of YMCAs. Through this affiliation, Kirkcaldy YMCA becomes part of the world alliance of YMCAs.

Established in Kirkcaldy in 1886, the Association has delivered its charitable mission for 136 years.

Globally, YMCA is an inclusive Christian Youth Organisation, open to people of all faiths and none. The YMCA, as a movement, works to transform the lives of children and young people, empowering them to create positive change in their lives.

Kirkcaldy YMCA exists to provide and support quality programmes aimed at physical, social, mental, and spiritual development, especially for young people, to enable their development and growth, wholeness and maturity in Christ and contribution to the broader community.

We operate as a vibrant community hub from our HQ premises and the new Gallatown Hub community facility. We also provide housing support through our accommodation unit and scattered flats as well as deliver outreach work for the community benefit of children, young people, and families. We offer a wide-ranging programme of activities all year round through our dedicated staff teams, sessional employees, and volunteers. Our programmes are delivered predominantly through grant funding.

Our success comes from our long-term relationships with our stakeholders and beneficiaries and our excellent knowledge and insight into the local community and the needs of our children, young people, and families.

About the Chief Executive Officer position

We are seeking an inspirational leader who can steer us through change, lead on delivering our ambitious strategic plans, develop our existing programmes and partnerships, and ultimately enable the continuity of our charitable purposes.

Over the next 12 months, you'll be responsible for delivering the following:

• Creating and implementing strategies together with the Board and the operational team.
• Leading and overseeing the Association's short- and long-term operational plans in accordance with its strategy.
• Maintaining a detailed overview of the organisation's outreach, housing support and activities programmes, providing the resources required to ensure the programmes deliver our mission.
• Maintaining a detailed overview of finance activities. Creating annual budgets acceptable to the Board of Directors and managing resources within agreed budgets.
• Implementing effective operational governance and support by developing, implementing, and evaluating business services plans including finance, HR and people, IT, Health and Safety, regulation, compliance, and risk management.
• Building a sustainable programme of individual, corporate, government, legacy, and trust funding and donations that ensures our long-term financial stability.
• Growing our reach and ensuring we can benefit increasing numbers of children, young people, and families, by creating and maintaining our impact through development of a marketing plan. Develop Kirkcaldy YMCA's messaging, tone of voice, style, and approach to strengthen our external presence and profile in line with our values and culture.
• Maintaining stakeholder confidence by building long-term mutually beneficial working relationships and partnerships with external stakeholders, regulatory bodies, local authority, government and funding bodies and the public, acting as the face and ambassador of Kirkcaldy YMCA
• Collaborating with the Board of Directors in fulfilling their legal duties and responsibilities and ensuring the proper governance of Kirkcaldy YMCA.
• Maintaining the positive culture in Kirkcaldy YMCA by continuing the clear standards of conduct and respect, valuing diversity, engaging, listening to, and including each team member (employees, volunteers, and the Board of Directors) as part of the solution.
• Inspiring and supporting the Team to meet their goals and understand how their contributions are vital to achieving our charitable purpose.

To be successful in this position

The Chief Executive Officer role involves a high level of responsibility with pivotal decision-making affecting the future of the Association, its beneficiaries, and its employees. This is not an entry-level position; it will require at least two years of experience in Community Education and Youth Work Leadership, ideally in a similar organisation.

Success in this role requires the jobholder to fully understand community education, community learning and development, and business administration functions and systems.

You'll also need to demonstrate the following abilities:

• Decisiveness – being able to make decisions with speed and conviction.
• Engaging for impact – developing a keen insight into the needs of our stakeholders and beneficiaries and being able to influence buy-in with an unrelenting focus on delivering our charitable purpose.
• Adapting proactively – being constantly ready and adapting rapidly to a continuously changing environment.
• Delivering reliably – being able to set realistic expectations and deliver reliably with a steady hand through your understanding of the Association, our stakeholders, your ability to create a high performing team, effective planning and organisation and your knowledge of how to best use business management systems.

In return, we offer

• A generous salary and benefits.
• The opportunity to lead an organisation that for the past 136 years has genuinely responded to community needs and will continue to drive forward programmes that support, inspire, and enable children, young people and families to change and improve their lives.
• A role full of variety, where you can make decisions easily, developing new ideas and programmes with an inclusive Team and the Board's full support.
• The ability to influence thinking, lives, and outcomes – lows and highs, from sheer desperation to pure joy!