Director of Annual Campaign

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Director of Annual Campaign
Charles Schusterman JCC
2021 E 71st St
Tulsa, OK 74136

Jewish Tulsa
Tulsa, Oklahoma

You're responsible for the donor who has given $18 every year for decades because Jewish Tulsa is part of the story of their family.

You're responsible for the young family walking into the JCC for the first time, wondering if there is a place for them here.

You're responsible for the community member who felt alone after October 7 and needed to know that Jewish life in Tulsa was not retreating, hiding, apologizing, or shrinking.

You're responsible for the volunteer who cares deeply but needs someone to help them turn that care into action.

You're responsible for the child at Camp Shalom, the student visiting the Sherwin Miller Museum, the senior looking for connection, the Israeli speaker bringing clarity in a confusing time, and the person who has not yet discovered that Jewish Tulsa can be their home.

And you're responsible for helping make sure the resources are there to serve all of them.

This is not just a fundraising job. It is a relationship-building job. It is a community-building job. It is a Jewish future job.

Jewish Tulsa is working to build the model Jewish community for the post-October 7 world: proud, connected, secure, creative, Zionist, welcoming, intellectually serious, and full of life. We are innovative. We are willing to try things. We are not interested in managing decline or doing things simply because they have always been done that way. We are building with urgency, imagination, and passion.

The Director of Annual Campaign will help fuel that work.

Jewish Tulsa is the central address for Jewish life in Tulsa and Eastern Oklahoma. Through the Jewish Federation of Tulsa, the Charles Schusterman Jewish Community Center, the Tulsa Jewish Community Foundation, and the Sherwin Miller Museum of Jewish Art, we serve our community through education, culture, philanthropy, security, Israel engagement, advocacy, programming, and care.

We believe small and mid-sized Jewish communities have an enormous role to play in the future of American Jewish life. In a time of rising antisemitism, communal uncertainty, and deep questions about Jewish identity and belonging, Tulsa has an opportunity to model something different: a Jewish community that is proud, warm, serious, joyful, and unafraid.

That work requires people who believe in Jewish community as a calling.

The Director of Annual Campaign will lead Jewish Tulsa's annual campaign efforts and help strengthen the culture of philanthropy across the organization.

This person will work closely with the Executive Director, Senior Director of Strategic Philanthropy, Campaign Chair, board members, volunteers, donors, and community leaders to grow the annual campaign, deepen donor relationships, and connect people to the mission and impact of Jewish Tulsa.

The right candidate will understand that fundraising is not primarily about asking people for money. It is about listening carefully, building trust, telling the truth about what is needed, and helping people participate in something larger than themselves.

You will help build and execute a thoughtful, ambitious, and organized annual campaign. That includes campaign planning, goal-setting, donor segmentation, pledge follow-up, stewardship, reporting, and volunteer coordination.

You will track progress, identify opportunities for growth, and help ensure that campaign activity is consistent, disciplined, and relational.

You will build authentic relationships with current and prospective donors.

You will meet with donors, listen to what motivates them, understand their connection to Jewish life, and help them see how their giving makes a difference.

You will help donors connect to the work that moves them most, whether that is Jewish education, Israel, security, young families, the JCC, the museum, Holocaust education, community care, or the future of Jewish life in Tulsa.

You will…