Senior Program Associate, Detroit

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 2030, Repair will catalyze one million acts of service towards repairing the world.

Repair is building a national Jewish service movement of flourishing Jewish communities that serve in pursuit of a just world. Repair 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. 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.

Repair the World provides volunteers with an increased connection to meaningful service and learning, deepening their connection to Jewish community and peoplehood, building capacity for nonprofit partners by meeting pressing needs to meet their missions, and building bridges across lines of difference.

Our Detroit program launched in 2013, as a home for Jewish service learning opportunities in the Metro Detroit community, offering ongoing volunteering opportunities through strategic partnership with Jewish community partners to engage their constituents in Jewish service. Our volunteers address urgent community needs with respect to food insecurity, housing and education through a Jewish service learning lens. Repair the World Detroit’s work is done in deep partnership with local organizations including Pope Francis Center , Yad Ezra , Brilliant Detroit and MSU-DPFLI.

Detroit Repair is seeking a Senior Program Associate to support the planning and facilitation of meaningful Jewish service learning programs for young adults. The Senior Associate will facilitate Repair’s service corps, a time-bound, stipended cohort program where participants engage in volunteering with a service partner and weekly Jewish learning as a group. They will also plan and facilitate meaningful Jewish service learning programs for non-immersive service participants or for the broader Jewish community, and engage participants to recruit their peers in service and learning.

The service corps mobilizes young adults to meet community needs through part-time, time-bound service. Young adults, ages 18-29, serve directly with local partners providing direct services, learn about social change and local context for their service, and Jewish wisdom in community through bi-weekly learning sessions with their peers. Through pairing service with Jewish learning and values, Detroit Repair provides an entry-point to Jewish life for Jewish young adults who may not be traditionally engaged with the broader Jewish community.

In addition to the service corps, the Senior Program Associate will also create and implement dynamic and engaging Jewish service learning programs in partnership with Jewish communal and service partner organizations, as well as with local Service Ambassadors.

The successful candidate will be an aspiring experiential Jewish educator, community builder, flexible self-starter and a strong facilitator. They excel at building relationships with individuals and can speak passionately about the intersection of service, social change, and Jewish values.

This is a full-time exempt position. The Senior Program Associate will report to the Detroit City Director.

Service Corps

• Recruit and oversee operations of 2-3 cohorts of Corps Members per year with the goal of Corps Members becoming integrated with their service partners, connected to Jewish community, and reaching their volunteer goals.
• Identify, build, and sustain existing and new relationships with local Jewish organizations, and service partners for Corps Member placements.
• Coordinate and facilitate learning for Corps Members about local social issues, Jewish values and the skills needed to build Jewish service learning…