Senior Director, Jewish Learning and Educational Strategy

Senior Director, Jewish Learning and Educational Strategy The Position

Repair is looking for an engaging and visionary rabbi and 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.

As Repair’s Senior Director of Jewish Learning and Educational Strategy, you are equally passionate about social impact as you are about making service a normative part of Jewish life and expression.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to develop service as a meaningful Jewish practice. Leading a small but mighty team of educators, you will lead cross-functionality across the organization with Jewish educators from across our organization, our partners, and lay leaders to train hundreds to engage hundreds 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.

And you bring issue-area knowledge into your educational approach, helping participants connect Jewish values to the real-world challenges we’re serving to address together. Repair utilizes a four-part pedagogy that incorporates issue area education, Jewish education, hands education and service, and your role will meaningfully contribute to the successful implementation of that pedagogy.

The Senior Director of Jewish Learning and Educational Strategy reports directly to the Chief Strategy Officer with a dotted line to the CEO.

Educational Strategy and Curriculum

• Implement Repair’s Jewish educational strategy and curriculum and deepen program staff skills in this area.
  • Train colleagues in our methodologies both virtually and in person with our community and field activation 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 and support teams across the organization on their Jewish educational content.
• Refine and implement Repair’s social impact and issue-area curriculum and deepen program staff skills in this area.
  • Develop and support colleagues with issue-area education, ensuring it is prioritized and integrated into program design and staff practice.
  • Oversee all social impact curricular development, ensuring materials connect participants to the communities they serve and the issues that animate Repair’s work.
• Support the development of meaningful, accessible materials that are available for distribution and accessible via an online library.

Champion Jewish Service

• 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 inspire commitment to Jewish service and strengthen Jewish learning.
• Support organizational leadership in ongoing commitment to elevate Jewish wisdom and values in messaging, both internal and external.
• Lead key educational initiatives, including Repair’s partnership with Jewish Learning Collaborative (JLC), Repair’s Service Learning Kollel, and develop and inform other educational opportunities.
• Create social media and other content to elevate Jewish learning and values as part of Repair’s communications.

Jewish Educator and Pastoral Care

• Provide rabbinic leadership and pastoral care to Repair’s staff and board members. Serve as a thought partner and spiritual leader 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 and create moments of connection by making explicit the connection to Jewish tradition, practice, and ideas in the context of the day to day work and as significant moments of inflection points arise.

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