Kadima is currently hiring a fundraising event organizer and strategist!
Fundraising Event Organizer & Strategist
Position Overview:
The Fundraising Event Organizer & Strategist will be the facilitator and project manager for Kadima’s annual fundraising event budgeted to raise $55,000 in 2023. The event, called Heart & Chutzpah, is a celebration of Kadima’s values, history, present, and future aspirations. We aim to express our social justice and equity values in the details of how we plan and execute our events, and to create an event that is inspiring, fun, and a point of connection for our community!
Employment Period: January-May 2023, for hybrid in-person/online fundraiser on Sunday, April 30, 2023 between 4-8pm. This position is being offered as an independent contractor position.
Compensation: $7,000, paid in equal installments at the end of each month. Estimated at 18 weeks, 10 hrs/week, negotiable.
Working/Organizational Environment:
Responsibilities:
Desired Skills & Experience:
Required Availability:
Organizational Context:
Kadima Reconstructionist Community is an ever-evolving progressive community in Seattle, WA with the strong values of inclusion, social justice, and Jewish tradition for Jews and our allies. Kadima was founded over 40 years ago to be a home for radical organizers and protesters against injustice and bigotry.
Our website reads: “Kadima Reconstructionist Community is building a progressive community of inclusion, social justice, and Jewish tradition for Jews and our allies. Committed to racial, economic and gender justice, we bridge spirituality and social justice through Shabbat and holiday celebration, intergenerational learning, and solidarity work with #blacklivesmatter, immigration justice organizations, and movements to end the Israeli occupation.”
Timeline:
Please send a brief cover letter (written or video) and resume to office@kadima.org. We will consider applications on a rolling basis until the position is filled.
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People of color, Sephardi and Mizrahi Jews, immigrants, formerly incarcerated people, people from poor and working class backgrounds, disabled people, and transgender, gender non-conforming, and Two-Spirit applicants are enthusiastically invited to apply to all positions.
Kadima does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religious creed, sex, gender expression, gender identity, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, military status, prior contact with the criminal justice system, or any other basis prohibited by law.
The Fundraising Event Organizer & Strategist will be the facilitator and project manager for Kadima’s annual fundraising event budgeted to raise $55,000 in 2023. The event, called Heart & Chutzpah, is a celebration of Kadima’s values, history, present, and future aspirations. We aim to express our social justice and equity values in the details of how we plan and execute our events, and to create an event that is inspiring, fun, and a point of connection for our community!
Employment Period: January-May 2023, for hybrid in-person/online fundraiser on Sunday, April 30, 2023 between 4-8pm. This position is being offered as an independent contractor position.
Compensation: $7,000, paid in equal installments at the end of each month. Estimated at 18 weeks, 10 hrs/week, negotiable.
Working/Organizational Environment:
- Remote only, including occasional online full staff meetings, volunteer team meetings, and meetings as necessary with the staff members and board leaders
- Mostly self-directed and self-set hours
- Regular office staff include the Director of Operations, Director of Youth & Family Learning, Bookkeeping and Admin Specialist, and Rabbi
- Additional staff include approximately 10 teachers for Kadima’s youth and family programming
- Many active (though busy), passionate lay-leaders/member-volunteers
- Event Organizer supervised by Director of Operations with weekly reports to DoO and member of the volunteer team, as well as monthly reports to the Board of Directors
- Board of Directors to support your work with co-presidents in role of ultimate oversight of contract
Responsibilities:
- Facilitate the work of staff, board, volunteer event team, and ad-hoc volunteers to successfully execute the fundraising strategy and event logistics
- Execute tasks toward the success of the event
- Work with event team to develop and implement graphics and communication, publicity, ticket sales, keynote speaker(s), activities and programming, cultural expression, tasty nourishment, inspirational financial ask, other fundraising avenues, and special surprises
- Collaborate in developing and implement data-driven fundraising strategies for meeting our fundraising goals in conjunction with our values
- Report progress, including agreed-upon benchmarks
- Track and manage follow-through of staff and volunteers on event planning tasks
- Develop and adhere to a budget for the event with DoO and and volunteer team
- Integrate accessibility, equity, and justice in all aspects of event planning and execution including but not limited to disability justice, racial justice, Jewish liberation, Palestinian liberation, class liberation, gender justice, young people’s liberation, and the honor of elders and young people
- Physical presence at the event in Seattle, WA
Desired Skills & Experience:
- Experience planning and organizing fundraisers that met or exceeded their financial goals, including goals of near $55,000 or more
- Skill executing an exciting, connecting, accessible hybrid event
- Experience learning about and integrating social justice principles into a work setting with an eye toward the liberation movements listed above and more
- Experience with Google office products (drive, sheets, etc) and Discord
- Experience with developing and working within an event budget
- Experience communicating with, motivating and organizing member-volunteers into roles appropriate to their skills and desires and supporting them to stay accountable to their commitments
- Ability to work independently and as a team member
- Motivational and inspirational when working with member-volunteers
- Detail oriented with a strong, demonstrated ability to follow through and help others follow through
- Strong skill in managing and prioritizing work flow
Required Availability:
- Staff meetings on some Wednesdays, 9:30-11am PT
- The possibility of attending some board/officer meetings on Thursdays evenings 2nd (executive team), 3rd (full board), and/or 4th (executive team), 6:30-8pm, as needed
- Occasional evenings and/or Sunday meetings with volunteer leaders
Organizational Context:
Kadima Reconstructionist Community is an ever-evolving progressive community in Seattle, WA with the strong values of inclusion, social justice, and Jewish tradition for Jews and our allies. Kadima was founded over 40 years ago to be a home for radical organizers and protesters against injustice and bigotry.
Our website reads: “Kadima Reconstructionist Community is building a progressive community of inclusion, social justice, and Jewish tradition for Jews and our allies. Committed to racial, economic and gender justice, we bridge spirituality and social justice through Shabbat and holiday celebration, intergenerational learning, and solidarity work with #blacklivesmatter, immigration justice organizations, and movements to end the Israeli occupation.”
Timeline:
- Interviews will begin starting the week of January 10th with a hopeful start date of January 23rd, but later as needed
Please send a brief cover letter (written or video) and resume to office@kadima.org. We will consider applications on a rolling basis until the position is filled.
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People of color, Sephardi and Mizrahi Jews, immigrants, formerly incarcerated people, people from poor and working class backgrounds, disabled people, and transgender, gender non-conforming, and Two-Spirit applicants are enthusiastically invited to apply to all positions.
Kadima does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religious creed, sex, gender expression, gender identity, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, military status, prior contact with the criminal justice system, or any other basis prohibited by law.
We are grateful to Eden Village West, Rainier Valley Corps, Jews for Racial & Economic Justice, and Camelback Ventures for providing inspiration and language from their recent job postings!