Senior Program Associate, Bay Area

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 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 Jewish service and learning, deepening their connection to Jewish community and peoplehood, building bridges with local nonprofit partners by meeting pressing needs that help meet their missions, and building bridges across lines of difference.

Repair the World Bay Area launched in the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 as a home for Jewish service learning opportunities across the region:
San Francisco, East Bay, and South Bay. Our programs include Service Ambassadors, Service Corps, and Jewish service learning programs, often run in partnership with JCCs, synagogues, Moishe Houses, and other local organizations. These programs meet pressing needs like food insecurity and housing justice, and each one is enriched with Jewish learning, issue-area education, and reflection.

Repair’s Service Corps mobilizes young adults to meet community needs through part-time, time-bound Jewish service. Young adults, ages 18–39, serve directly with local partners, learn about social change, local context for their service, and engage in meaningful Jewish learning sessions with their peers. Through pairing service with Jewish learning, Repair provides an entry-point to Jewish life for Jewish young adults who may not be traditionally engaged with the broader Jewish community.

Repair is seeking a Senior Program Associate to support the planning and facilitation of meaningful Jewish service learning programs for young adults and the broader Bay Area community. The Senior Associate will facilitate Repair’s Service Corps, a time-bound stipended 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.

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 Senior City Director, Bay Area.

• Recruit and oversee operations of 3-4 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…