Senior Director, Jewish Education

About

Repair the World mobilizes Jews and their communities to take action to pursue a just world. We believe that service in support of social change is vital to a flourishing Jewish community and an inspired Jewish life. By 2026, Repair will inspire and catalyze one million acts of service toward repairing the world.

Repair is building a national Jewish service movement that mobilizes young adults to serve in their communities, catalyzes service through deep partnerships within Jewish communal organizations, and inspires people to take action through time-bound thematic national service campaigns, digital engagement, and service. Our mission provides volunteers with an increased connection to meaningful service and learning as a Jewish value, builds capacity for nonprofit partners to meet their missions, and deepens connections across lines of difference.

Position Overview

Repair is looking for an engaging rabbi/educator, strategist, project manager, and self-starter who will implement and build on Repair's Jewish educational strategy, ensuring our Jewish service movement delivers impactful Jewish experiences for participants, staff, and lay leaders. THE START DATE FOR THIS ROLE IS ON OR AROUND AUGUST 1, 2024.

As Repair's Senior Director of Jewish Education, you will have the opportunity to develop service as a meaningful Jewish practice, making it a normative part of Jewish life and expression. You will train hundreds of Jewish educators and leaders to engage tens of thousands in meaningful Jewish service. You will inspire and deepen participants' connection through compelling Jewish service learning, supporting them to ask essential questions about values, the role of service in our lives, and how service can be a transformative Jewish experience.

The Senior Director of Jewish Education reports directly to the Chief Program Officer. This is a full-time, exempt position. This is a remote position with preference for candidates proximal to a Repair the World community (Atlanta, Baltimore, Bay Area, Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Colorado, Detroit, Los Angeles, Miami, Pittsburgh, New York).

Position Responsibilities

Jewish Educational Strategy and Curriculum

• Create and implement a Jewish education pedagogy and curriculum and deepen program staff skills in this area.
  • Train colleagues in our methodologies both virtually and in person with our local community teams.
  • Oversee all curricular development.
  • Ensure Jewish educational strategy and curricula deepens connections between service and Jewish values for all of Repair's audiences.
  • Consult with teams across the organization on their Jewish educational content.

Key Organizational Relationships

• Maintain key national relationships with partner organizations, funders, and other organizations within the Jewish Service Alliance (JSA).
  • Convene a working group composed of JSA rabbis and Jewish educators, to infuse myriad religious backgrounds and perspectives into the JSA educational materials and campaign content.
• Steward the Jewish Education Advisory Council.
• Support organizational leadership in ongoing commitment to elevate Jewish wisdom, time, value around messaging, both internal and external.
• Supervise the planning and implementation of the Jewish Learning Collaborative (JLC) partnership.

Jewish Educator and Pastoral Care

• Provide pastoral care and support to Repair's staff and board members. Serve as a spiritual role model/thought partner for a staff community mostly made up of young adults.
• Serve as Jewish educator to the Board including preparing/leading Jewish learning for Board Meetings and bringing Jewish wisdom to help frame key decisions.
• Help to make real-time Jewish meaning/connection moments - be a voice in the room that can make explicit the connection to Jewish tradition, practice or ideas in the context of the day to day work and as significant moments/inflection points arise.

Supervision

• Supervise the Senior Manager, Jewish Education and provide project supervision for the Stakeholder Engagement Associate.
• Oversee consultants who serve as curriculum builders, facilitators and faculty members for Repair.

Position Requirements and Skills

Some qualified applicants may not have all the skills listed below. We encourage you to apply if you meet the majority of the requirements.

• Rabbinic ordination preferred, as well as a deep and demonstrated commitment to service, grounded in caring for vulnerable people.
• 10+ years of experience in informal and experiential education, bringing strategies for how to integrate education/learning into programs that may not be obvious to staff who will be delivering the majority of these learning experiences.
• Experience in direct service, Jewish service learning and curriculum development for adult audiences.
• Track record of engaging adult learners in creative and experiential Jewish learning experiences.
• Demonstrated knowledge of Jewish ideas, values, stories, and texts and ability to demonstrate strategy and vision for how to deliver content in ways that are accessible, inclusive, and resonant to those who do not hold that knowledge.
• Demonstrated success in coaching, inspiring, and motivating peers around Jewish service learning.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills; proven ability to connect with executives, non-profit leaders, and young adults.
• Strong understanding of trends, behaviors, attitudes, and learning styles of Millennials and Gen Z young adults along with a vision for how to engage young people who may not see themselves as deeply connected to Jewish ideas and concepts.
• Comfortable leaning into tensions that emerge from engaging in service and as part of social change work.
• Sophisticated awareness of poverty, structural racism, power and privilege, ability to facilitate conversations around these issues with diverse groups in ways that empower and open people to learning.
• Passion for Repair's mission and organizational values that guide our work with the frame of repairing the world, tikkun olam, leading to the pursuit of justice, tzedek.
• Ability to travel within the US as needed and when possible to meet with staff, partners and educators, represent Repair the World at conferences and gatherings, train colleagues in our methodologies and engage in service learning with our local community teams.

How to Apply

Please submit your resume and cover letter here.See below for the full application process.

Repair the World Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

We deeply value the diversity of insight, perspective, and experience brought by people from backgrounds typically underrepresented in Jewish institutions. This includes Black, Latinx, and Asian people, Black Jews, Jews of Color, Sephardi, Mizrachi Jews, lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and gender non-conforming people, and people with disabilities. We also welcome applications from people of diverse religious, spiritual, and cultural backgrounds.

The organization provides equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender expression, age, alienage or citizenship status, creed, genetic predisposition or carrier status, national origin, disability condition, marital status, status as a disabled or Vietnam era veteran, or any other protected characteristic as established by law. In addition, the organization affirmatively seeks to advance the principles of equal employment opportunity as it applies to all policies and procedures relating to recruiting and hiring, compensation, benefits, termination, and all other terms and conditions of employment.

Compensation

Compensation at Repair the World is determined based on the salary band for the role and adjusted based on cost of living where the final candidate resides. For candidates with 10+ years of experience, compensation for this role starts at between $140,000 and $160,000 depending on the city. Benefits package includes paid time off for service in addition to vacation and holidays. Employer covers 100% of full-time employee's health premiums (medical/dental/vision) for most plans and 50% for dependents. Additional benefits include retirement matching, professional development funds, employer-paid short and long term disability coverage plus access to the Jewish Learning Collaborative and our Economic Access Fund. In addition, employees that have been with Repair for at least six months are eligible for 16 weeks of paid parental leave (pro-rated for employees with Repair less than 6 months).

Application Process

• Before February 20th, 2024: Submit your application including resume and a thoughtful and concise cover letter responding to the prompt: What experiences have led you to be a strong candidate to lead and implement Repair's Jewish educational strategy?
• February 29th through March 8th: Applicants moved forward will have a first round screening with a member of Repair's People & Culture Team.
• March 13th through March 20th: Applicants that move forward will have a second round interview with the Chief Program Officer and a member of Repair's Program Leadership Team.
• March 25th through April 5th: The final round interview will be with Repair's Chief Executive Officer and another member of the Executive Team. Finalists will be asked to provide two professional references and to facilitate a guest teaching for a group of 7-10 Repair staff.
• The start date for this role is on or around August 1, 2024.