Director, Israel Immersives and Cohorts

Director, Israel Immersives and Cohorts

The Jewish Education Project

New York, NY

The Jewish Education Project is a national organization that empowers Jewish pride, knowledge, and peoplehood by equipping educators across North America and beyond with the training, frameworks, and resources to reach more than 500,000 children each year.

Since October 7, Jewish Ed Project has placed Israel education at the center of its work, partnering with leading foundations and organizations to advance the field through research, professional development, resource creation, and the development of a new Israel Education Framework that is shaping practice nationally. For more information, visit (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below)..

The Jewish Education Project seeks a Director of Immersives and Cohorts to serve as the educational architect and lead storyteller for the organization's immersive educator experiences. For the first two years of the position, the Director will focus on designing and implementing immersive trips to Israel. This is a hands‑on educational leadership role for someone who excels on the ground: designing transformative cohort experiences, weaving a cohesive pedagogical narrative across each experience, leading groups through complexity, and ensuring every educator concludes their experience equipped to teach Israel differently.

For the Israel immersives, every trip will be designed to model what Israel education looks like when it adheres to the Reimagining Israel Education Framework. This is not general Israel travel; it is framework-in-action through immersive experience. The Director ensures participants come away fully versed in the Reimagining approach and ready to translate it into their own classrooms, camps, and programs.

Reporting to the Managing Director of Israel Education, this individual is the primary designer and educational leader of The Jewish Education Project's immersive and fellowship programming. The Director focuses on program design and direct delivery, including pre‑and post‑experience learning, partnering with various external partners, subject‑matter experts, and ground operators to create rigorous, relevant, and deeply impactful experiences.

• Serve as the educational architect and narrative weaver for The Jewish Education Project's 7‑day immersive educator experiences in Israel (~5-6 trips per year; approximately 10 trips over the initial two‑year period), including:
• Designing the educational arc, daily learning objectives, and facilitation approach for each trip.
• Leading on‑the‑ground facilitation and teaching, partnering with a licensed Israeli tour guide and rotating topical experts.
• Curating site visits, guest speakers, and experiential learning moments that model encounters with complexity, diverse Israeli voices (including Arab citizens of Israel and Palestinian perspectives), and new pedagogical approaches.
• Managing pre‑trip preparation sessions and post‑trip integration programming to extend impact.
• Continuously refine trip models based on participant feedback, evaluation data, and the evolving reality in Israel.

• Develop and refine the audience strategy for each trip cycle, ensuring differentiation across educator populations and trip themes.
• Manage application and selection processes that build strong, diverse cohorts.
• Sustain alumni engagement and continued framework application beyond the trip experience.

• Ensure the Reimagining Israel Education Framework is the animating pedagogical foundation of every trip.
• Design experiences that model the framework's key shifts.
• Identify and cultivate relationships with Israeli educators, institutions, and voices that embody the framework's values and can serve as recurring partners across trips.

• Design and facilitate pre‑trip learning (orientation, framework introduction, cohort building) and post‑trip integration (application planning, peer accountability, alumni community).
• Integrate content partners (e.g., those delivering…