Associate Executive Director

About the Role

The Associate Executive Director is responsible for managing all program departments and work, supervising multiple Directors, and overseeing a broad swath of organizational planning, development, advancement, and evaluation. The role serves as an important contributor to organizational planning, direction and leadership, both programmatic and operational. As Urban Adamah’s second most senior position, the Associate Executive Director holds significant responsibility and opportunity to support and influence the organization’s overall impact and success.

• Partner with Directors on, articulate, hold, and lead strategic vision for all programs
• Manage and support program teams, including Community & Ritual/Public Programs, Education (Youth & Family Programs), Young Adult Programs, and Farm
• Supervise Directors, including Community & Ritual/Public Programs, Education (Youth & Family Programs), Young Adult Programs, and Farm Directors
• Oversee all program evaluation and ensure integration of findings/learnings
• Support each supervised department’s annual budget preparation and year‑round budget management work

• Support each department’s program development, implementation, evaluation, and refinement
• Imagine, propose, and implement program development and innovation across the four worlds of Urban Adamah’s work:
  Jewish values, social justice, sustainability, and mindfulness
• Serve as a thought leader, educator, and resource on Jewish values and community development
• Explore, identify, and develop new areas of organization‑wide program innovation across all areas of Urban Adamah programming
• Encourage, strengthen, and facilitate synergy and cross‑pollination between departments, including program ideation and development
• Nurture and support learning and activities that contribute to an organization‑wide commitment to growth mindset / beginner’s mind
• Developing, launching, supervising, and leading programming that includes educational, experiential, cultural, and spiritual content preferred

• Explore, propose, and design new mission‑aligned initiatives to meaningfully engage community members as participants, volunteers, program facilitators, etc.
• Lead efforts to deepen and expand partnerships with mission‑aligned organizations in the Jewish and general community, to grow Urban Adamah’s audience / community of belonging and impact

• Support and guide each department’s annual work planning, including identifying key outcomes / impacts, and paths to achieving them
• Create accountability structures to ensure planning leads to demonstrable actions and desired outcomes / impact
• Structure and lead annual or semi‑annual (every two years) strategic visioning process across all areas of programmatic and operational work

• Oversee development of reports for the Board’s review in advance of and discussion at quarterly Board meetings
• Support and ensure the success of some Board committees (current committees include Finance & Personnel, Development, Governance, and Audit)
• Work with the Executive Director to steward and support the meaningful engagement and investment of Board members between meetings/year‑round

• Individual donor stewardship, cultivation, and solicitation
• Developing, deepening, and sustaining foundation relationships
• Contributing to grant management, writing, and reporting

• Contribute to an overall budget that balances income and expenses
• Ensure all supervised Directors have the knowledge and skills needed to draft, finalize, and manage their department’s annual budget
• Support Directors to identify earned income generating programs and initiatives
• Ensure all staff in each supervised department understand their department’s budget, both income and expenses

You have the background and experience required to thrive as a senior‑level organizational manager and leader. You have demonstrated success managing individuals and teams, and facilitating interpersonal relationships and collaborations. You possess a love of and…