JCRC’s Education and Community Engagement Senior Manager

Jewish Louisville:

Founded in 1890, Jewish Louisville (a.k.a. The Trager Family Jewish Community Center "TFJCC") has been a shining light in the Louisville Community for 136 years and is committed to enhancing the quality of family life and promoting the physical, intellectual, and spiritual wellness for all individuals. The agency provides friendly health and wellness related activities, cultural and educational programs that serve the community at large, including populations bership and program services are offered to the entire community.

The TFJCC offers the following client services:
Sports & Wellness;
Senior Adult & Nutrition;
Early Childhood, Youth, Camp, before and after school programs; and Jewish Cultural & Performing Arts.

The Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC) is the arm of the Jewish Community of Louisville (JCL) that represents the Jewish community to the wider public on public policy, community relationships, and human rights. It has been doing that work in Louisville for decades.

The Senior Manager of Education and Community Engagement advances the JCRC's community relations mission by building trusted relationships within K-12 and higher education, expanding educational partnerships, and strengthening connections between the Jewish community and the broader community.

This is a new position, and it does two things at once.

First, it makes education the center of the JCRC's work. The JCRC Senior Manager of Education and Community Engagement will be the lead professional for everything the JCL does with schools, colleges, and universities: building relationships with districts and campuses before problems arise, serving as a trusted point of contact when they do, and expanding the reach of Holocaust and antisemitism education across the region, alongside education that shares the richness of Jewish culture, the joy of Jewish life, and the resilience of the Jewish people.

Second, it extends that work beyond Louisville. Through a partnership with the Jewish Federation of the Bluegrass, this position brings professional community relations and education support to Lexington for the first time. No one has held that role in either location before, which means the person in this job will be building something rather than inheriting it.

The work is proactive by design. The goal is not to wait for incidents and respond, but to build a network of educators, administrators, campus professionals, and civic partners who already know the JCL, already trust it, and already have resources in hand when they need them.

This role is part of the national Frontline network. Frontline work today extends far beyond crisis response. Professionals in these roles are responsible for:

• Representing the Jewish community publicly and responsibly.
• Strengthening relationships with civic leaders and elected officials.
• Building bridges with interfaith and intergroup partners.
• Addressing antisemitism in K-12 schools, higher education, and public spaces, while sharing Jewish joy, culture, and resilience in those same settings.
• Supporting community education and engagement built on coalitions.

This is a public-facing job. It is also, at times, an emotionally demanding one. It calls for good judgment, steady communication, and the ability to work well with people who hold a wide range of views.

K-12 engagement and school partnerships

• Build and maintain working relationships with public and private school districts, superintendents, principals, teachers, and district offices across Louisville, Lexington, and surrounding areas where Jewish families live, and schedule regular touchpoints with key education stakeholders so those relationships stay active.
• Serve as a trusted resource for Jewish students, families, teachers, and administrators dealing with antisemitism or with issues affecting how Jewish students are included at school.
• Serve as a key member of the incident response team by receiving, documenting, tracking, and responding to reports of antisemitic incidents and bias concerns in K-12 settings. Coordinate with the JCRC Director and community security partners on response efforts.
• Partner with the University of Kentucky and Jewish Heritage Fund's Kentucky Holocaust Education Initiative to expand Holocaust and antisemitism education alongside lessons on Jewish culture, joy, and resilience, deepen relationships with teachers, and grow the statewide network of trained educators.
• Launch and run Student to Student, a…