Education & Training Manager

Keshet New York Education and Training Manager

• Keshet New York Education and Training Manager
• Salary: $60-76,000/year, commensurate with experience

At a time when anti-LGBTQ+ legislation and rhetoric are having harmful impacts on LGBTQ+ people and their families, this role helps to ensure that Jewish communities throughout Metro NY (serving the UJA catchment area including the five boroughs, Long Island, and Westchester County) are equipped to foster belonging, dignity, and inclusion. Join Keshet as our New York Education & Training Manager and help advance LGBTQ+ equality and belonging in Jewish communities across Metro New York.

In this role, you will partner with Jewish organizations, clergy, educators, and communal leaders to deliver trainings, workshops, and consultations that foster more welcoming and inclusive communities for LGBTQ+ people. Building on Keshet’s strong presence and history in Metro New York, you will strengthen partnerships, expand our impact, and help position Keshet as the leading resource for LGBTQ+ inclusion in Jewish life.

This role would be great for someone who thrives on building authentic relationships and cultivating partnerships across diverse Jewish communities and institutions, while serving as a skilled facilitator who can inspire learning, navigate complex conversations, and support organizations through meaningful change. This role is a great fit for someone who can work with a high degree of independence and autonomy, enjoys balancing strategic outreach with hands‑on program implementation, and takes initiative in expanding Keshet's impact, visibility, and community partnerships.

Working closely with colleagues across Keshet and with partners throughout New York, you will play a key role in advancing organizational priorities and supporting meaningful, lasting change in Jewish communal institutions.

The New York Education & Training Manager reports to the Associate Director of Education and Training. Candidates should be based in or willing to relocate to Metro New York.

Keshet works for the full equality of all LGBTQ+ Jews and our families in Jewish life. We turn values at the heart of Judaism—equality, inclusion, and human dignity—into action in Jewish communities across North America. We equip Jewish organizations with the tools to build LGBTQ+-affirming communities; create spaces for LGBTQ+ Jewish youth and LGBTQ+ Jews of Color to feel joy and belonging;

and advance LGBTQ+ rights nationwide.

As an organization that teaches the importance of proactive LGBTQ+ affirming messages and actions, Keshet recognizes the similar need to make our commitment to racial equity and justice clear and explicit. We embed a racial equity and justice lens into Keshet’s leadership and staff structure, political analysis, organizational policies, communications, and program content.

Keshet's national office is in Boston with offices in San Francisco, Chicago, South Florida, Texas, and New York, as well, and other staff across the United States.

• Oversee and implement all aspects of Keshet’s institutional change work in Metro NY serving the UJA catchment area including the five boroughs, Long Island, and Westchester County.
• Build continued momentum for Keshet’s local education and training work, and lift up Keshet’s profile within the community, through proactive outreach and relationship‑building with Jewish institutions.
• Facilitate LGBTQ+ inclusion trainings and workshops, provide consultation, and run and support select LGBTQ+ community building events for Jewish institutions and professionals throughout Metro NY.
• Develop training content in response to articulated needs from Jewish organizations in the metro NY area.
• Oversee and implement annual NYC-area cohorts of Shivyon:
  Keshet’s Equality Project. Shivyon is Keshet’s signature institutional change program, including recruitment of participating organizations, facilitation of Shivyon sessions, follow‑up trainings, and coaching, as well as logistical planning and coordination.
• Serve as the local “face” of Keshet in the Metro NY area, attending select local gatherings to represent Keshet.
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