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Change Lives with a Career at the Y
MEANINGFUL WORK THAT MATTERS
From inspiring youth in day camp with a sense of belonging, encouraging busy parents with nutrition advice for their family or helping underserved teens accomplish academic success — the Y is more than just a gym, and working here is more than a job. It’s a mission to transform lives, especially the young, and encourage all to develop their fullest potential in spirit, mind and body.
Make a Difference
The YMCA of Greater Charlotte employs over 4,000 full and part time team members across our 19 locations and two overnight camps. Together we serve over 300,000 men, women and children — regardless of age, income or background. We strive to recruit, develop and retain a talented and diverse workforce that advances the mission of the YMCA, and you’ll find a wide variety of career options depending on your individual goals.
More Than a Job
We invite you to explore our current opportunities and learn more about what it means to be a team member at the YMCA of Greater Charlotte. Join us in this amazing work — to develop your skills, realize your leadership potential and discover a career that’s so much more than a job!
Explore Career Opportunities
Looking for a great place to work and play? We're hiring in Charlotte! Fill out a job application to join our team and make a positive and lasting impact on the lives of children, adults, and families.
The YMCA is a Great Place to Build Your Career
Multiply the Mission
Since the first YMCA in Charlotte opened on November 11, 1874, we’ve made it our mission to put Christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind and body for all. If you seek a fulfilling, challenging and rewarding career, the Y is a great place to grow and make a lasting impact on countless lives.
Our Strategic Focus
Inspired by Christian principles, we’re committed to growing our reach, resources and impact to serve all. Many people choose to work for the Y to make a real, lasting difference in our members and others who participate in our programs. What they soon discover is that changing others for the better changes themselves. As an employee of the YMCA of Greater Charlotte, you’ll have a meaningful opportunity to help influence positive social change within the community you serve. Learn more about our mission.
YMCA Culture
Exceptional Team Members Drive Our Mission
Our work environment is filled with passionate dreamers, thinkers and doers. At the Y, everyone is a leader. Whether a camp counselor, marketing manager or fitness instructor, we all share a common goal to serve and make our community better. Our inclusive culture is as diverse as the communities we serve, and we celebrate the uniqueness of every individual.
Encouraging Life at Work
Many organizations talk about promoting a work-life balance. At the Y, we believe life doesn’t have to begin when work ends. We inspire your life at work. Our free Y memberships encourage health and wellness for our team members and their entire households. And we promote volunteer opportunities, such as allowing our employees to leave work and read to 6-year-olds with Y-Readers, lead arts and crafts at day camp, or teach kids about safety around water. Our culture feels like a large, extended family that genuinely cares for the well-being of one another.
Lead and Develop
Investing in Our Team
The Y is a rewarding place to work while developing a career and gaining leadership and advancement opportunities. YMCA of Greater Charlotte employs talented and dedicated people to serve our community. Our team members are able to put their experiences, abilities and energy to work while exploring and discovering new talents. We’re committed to personal and professional development with support and accountability.
Tools to Help You Succeed
Our devoted Leadership Development Team is dedicated to help you define, create and develop your future here. Aside from mandatory trainings in safety and service as well as technical trainings, we offer leadership development and nationally recognized certification courses — and we provide the time away from work to take them. Our goal is to develop our team members and volunteers, and to promote talent from within our organization.
Career Paths Focusing on Impact
As a Y team member, you’ll have the opportunity to build a career that’s right for you. Our Individual Development Plan for full-time employees captures opportunities to achieve personal career aspirations and goals, as well as further the mission of the organization. Our plan focuses on three areas of growth and impact at all stages of your career:
- Our current vision and the strategic focus related to growth in leadership
- Our seven behaviors that guide our service
- Your personal career aspirations and goals
Benefits
Enriching Work and Life
We believe our team members deserve the best. Our Total Rewards package breathes life into work with benefits that help team members grow personally and professionally, with a wide array of programs to move them successfully forward. From little things like discounts on Y programs to big things like a generous matching 403(b) Retirement Savings Plan, the YMCA of Greater Charlotte is committed to helping our people thrive at work and at home. Our comprehensive benefits package determined by employment status includes the following:
| FULL-TIME STAFF | PART TIME STAFF |
|
FITNESS INSTRUCTORS
ALL STAFF
|
Diversity and Inclusion
Access and Belonging for All
The Y is made up of people of all ages and from every walk of life working side by side to strengthen communities. We practice inclusion by valuing the diversity of all people within our organization, and in those we serve. We celebrate the uniqueness of every individual. Our diverse team members thrive in a culture where they’re encouraged and supported to reach their full potential.
Our Diversity Makes Us Strong
The Y welcomes independent thinkers from a variety of backgrounds who can work together collaboratively with a focus on multiplying our mission. We know different strengths and perspectives encourage creativity and challenge us to create better experiences for our members and our community.
We Believe in Equal Opportunity
We provide equal opportunity in employment to all team members and applicants for employment regardless of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, marital status, sexual orientation, status with regard to public assistance, membership or activity in a local commission, disability, age, or other legally protected status.
The YMCA is a Great Place to Build Your Career
Multiply the Mission
Since the first YMCA in Charlotte opened on November 11, 1874, we’ve made it our mission to put Christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind and body for all. If you seek a fulfilling, challenging and rewarding career, the Y is a great place to grow and make a lasting impact on countless lives.
Our Strategic Focus
Inspired by Christian principles, we’re committed to growing our reach, resources and impact to serve all. Many people choose to work for the Y to make a real, lasting difference in our members and others who participate in our programs. What they soon discover is that changing others for the better changes themselves. As an employee of the YMCA of Greater Charlotte, you’ll have a meaningful opportunity to help influence positive social change within the community you serve. Learn more about our mission.
YMCA Culture
Exceptional Team Members Drive Our Mission
Our work environment is filled with passionate dreamers, thinkers and doers. At the Y, everyone is a leader. Whether a camp counselor, marketing manager or fitness instructor, we all share a common goal to serve and make our community better. Our inclusive culture is as diverse as the communities we serve, and we celebrate the uniqueness of every individual.
Encouraging Life at Work
Many organizations talk about promoting a work-life balance. At the Y, we believe life doesn’t have to begin when work ends. We inspire your life at work. Our free Y memberships encourage health and wellness for our team members and their entire households. And we promote volunteer opportunities, such as allowing our employees to leave work and read to 6-year-olds with Y-Readers, lead arts and crafts at day camp, or teach kids about safety around water. Our culture feels like a large, extended family that genuinely cares for the well-being of one another.
Lead and Develop
Investing in Our Team
The Y is a rewarding place to work while developing a career and gaining leadership and advancement opportunities. YMCA of Greater Charlotte employs talented and dedicated people to serve our community. Our team members are able to put their experiences, abilities and energy to work while exploring and discovering new talents. We’re committed to personal and professional development with support and accountability.
Tools to Help You Succeed
Our devoted Leadership Development Team is dedicated to help you define, create and develop your future here. Aside from mandatory trainings in safety and service as well as technical trainings, we offer leadership development and nationally recognized certification courses — and we provide the time away from work to take them. Our goal is to develop our team members and volunteers, and to promote talent from within our organization.
Career Paths Focusing on Impact
As a Y team member, you’ll have the opportunity to build a career that’s right for you. Our Individual Development Plan for full-time employees captures opportunities to achieve personal career aspirations and goals, as well as further the mission of the organization. Our plan focuses on three areas of growth and impact at all stages of your career:
- Our current vision and the strategic focus related to growth in leadership
- Our seven behaviors that guide our service
- Your personal career aspirations and goals
Benefits
Enriching Work and Life
We believe our team members deserve the best. Our Total Rewards package breathes life into work with benefits that help team members grow personally and professionally, with a wide array of programs to move them successfully forward. From little things like discounts on Y programs to big things like a generous matching 403(b) Retirement Savings Plan, the YMCA of Greater Charlotte is committed to helping our people thrive at work and at home. Our comprehensive benefits package determined by employment status includes the following:
| FULL-TIME STAFF | PART TIME STAFF |
|
FITNESS INSTRUCTORS
ALL STAFF
|
Diversity and Inclusion
Access and Belonging for All
The Y is made up of people of all ages and from every walk of life working side by side to strengthen communities. We practice inclusion by valuing the diversity of all people within our organization, and in those we serve. We celebrate the uniqueness of every individual. Our diverse team members thrive in a culture where they’re encouraged and supported to reach their full potential.
Our Diversity Makes Us Strong
The Y welcomes independent thinkers from a variety of backgrounds who can work together collaboratively with a focus on multiplying our mission. We know different strengths and perspectives encourage creativity and challenge us to create better experiences for our members and our community.
We Believe in Equal Opportunity
We provide equal opportunity in employment to all team members and applicants for employment regardless of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, marital status, sexual orientation, status with regard to public assistance, membership or activity in a local commission, disability, age, or other legally protected status.