Associate Executive Director

Urban Adamah is an educational farm and community center in Berkeley, California that integrates the practices of Jewish tradition, mindfulness, sustainable agriculture, and social action to build loving, just, and sustainable communities. We provide training programs, educational workshops, and community celebrations for more than 15,000 visitors annually.

Our signature programs include two immersive residential leadership programs for young adults, a farm-based summer camp and year-round educational program for youth ages 3 – 12, and farm festivals for many of the Jewish holidays. Additionally, we offer an exciting menu of farm based programs for a wide variety of groups and organizations, host community educational, culture, and learning events and Jewish holiday celebrations, and run multi-day retreats and lifecycle celebrations.

Our urban farm produces a diverse yield of fruits, vegetables, and eggs, all of which we donate to help address issues of food insecurity.

The Associate Executive Director is responsible for managing all of our program departments and work, supervising multiple Directors, and overseeing a broad swath of our 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.

The Associate Executive Director is responsible for leading and supporting a team of talented program professionals in developing and delivering the wide range of our current programs. They provide support to their direct reports and departments in the following ways:

• 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

The Associate Executive Director is also responsible for leading the development of new program initiatives with Urban Adamah’s mission, values, and strategic plan.

Responsibilities include:

• 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

The Associate Executive Director leads and initiates Urban Adamah’s partnerships with mission aligned community members and organizations. They provide leadership in community engagement and impact in the following ways:

• 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