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Kadima School currently has several faculty positions available for the 5784 (2023-2024) school year. See below for details! We are seeking energetic and creative teachers to join our team of committed, collaborative, passionate, justice-seeking Jewish educators. Current open positions:
- Director of Member Development (30hrs/week, salaried)
- B'mitzvah Madrichimot (Guides/tutors)
Director of Member Development
Director of Member Development
Location: Hybrid in-person/online
Full time/Part time: .75 FT | 30 hours/week
Salary/Hourly: Salaried, professional staff
Service period: ongoing
Salary range: $56,160 – $71,760 annual ($36-46/hr at 30 hrs/wk)
Benefits: Kadima’s benefits documents
Supervised by: Rabbi & Acting Director
Kadima seeks a skilled, experienced Director of Member Development to lead our work in maximizing member care and financial giving while we undergo a process in the coming year to reinvigorate our organizational vision, purpose, and priorities. This person will complement a small, versatile, skilled team of professionals and member-leaders to lead the development of a financial plan to make this reinvigoration a sustainable reality.
Organizational Overview
Kadima Reconstructionist Community is an ever-evolving progressive Jewish community in Seattle, WA with the strong values of inclusion, social justice, and Jewish tradition. Kadima was founded over 45 years ago to be a home for radical organizers and protesters against injustice and bigotry.
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, Kadima bridges 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.
Read more about our evolving Derech Eretz (Community Norms) and Va’adat Teshuva (Committee for Repair).
The Opportunity
Kadima is hiring a Director of Member Development to play a crucial role in leading, supporting, and sustaining the Kadima community. This person will help shape organizational rhythms with vision, strategy, and storytelling. They will develop membership engagement systems that ensure the health and vitality of the Kadima network. They will tend to the wellness of Kadima’s membership and financial sustainability while enrolling Kadima staff, board officers, and member-leaders to execute this systematically organization-wide.
The Director of Member Development will collaborate with Kadima’s Rabbi & Acting Director, Director of Youth & Family Learning, Operations & Finance Manager, and Communications Manager as well as board officers and member-leaders to envision and implement a strategy for member care and financial sustainability in the model of fundraising as community organizing. This role offers space for shaping responsibilities, priorities, and desired impacts, while building an inclusive, proactive, and sustained justice-committed community.
Kadima is in a time of growth and we are building a visionary leadership team that can use an equity and intersectional justice-based lens and community organizing approach in all that we do.
Responsibilities
1. Resource Mobilization
2. Member Wellbeing
3. Organizational Wellbeing
Skills & Experience
The ideal candidate will be an experienced grassroots fundraiser, skilled community organizer, and have ease in a variety of Jewish communities and movement spaces. Particular skills and experience desired includes:
Working/Organizational Environment
How To Apply
Please send a resume and brief cover letter (written or video) detailing why you want to do the job and how your experience and skills are a match for this role to office@kadima.org with “Director of Member Development” in the subject line. Interviews will take place in March. Start date is flexible, anticipating Spring.
Anticipated timeline:
Anti Oppression Commitment
Kadima has signed on to the Not Free to Desist letter (see the Seattle-specific letter) and has made a commitment to “reimagine our collective Jewish covenant, centering racial justice and equity.” We are also committed to creating a more equitable organization through our work to undo cis heteronormativity and classism and to deepen our disability justice work. We are actively involved in an ongoing process of examining and recreating our workplace practices, educational curriculums, programming, and more. We are excited to bring this job opportunity to our communities through a lens of equity and intersectional anti-oppression, bringing in new voices to support our work towards a culture of collective liberation. We do our best to maintain a work environment that accepts and flexes to accommodate the reality of peoples’ lives, including: parenting/caretaking, neurodivergence, health fluctuations, mental health fluctuations, etc.
Frequently cited statistics show that women and structurally marginalized and/or underrepresented groups apply to jobs only if they meet 100% of the qualifications. Kadima encourages you to apply and break that statistic, as no one ever meets 100% of the qualifications. If you do not have all of the qualifications listed above but think you could still be a good fit for this role, we encourage you to apply and we look forward to your application.
People of color, Sephardi and Mizrahi Jews, immigrants, formerly incarcerated people, people from poor and working class backgrounds, disabled people, and transgender, gender non-confirming, and Two-Spirit applicants are enthusiastically invited to apply to all roles with Kadima.
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 acknowledge that we may receive applicants whom we already know and some we do not yet know. Both current members and non-members who apply will be considered as bringing particular knowledge and perspective to the position and we are excited to be in community with members and non-members who apply.
We are grateful to Tzedek Lab for their work in creating job announcements that inspired this job announcement.
Location: Hybrid in-person/online
Full time/Part time: .75 FT | 30 hours/week
Salary/Hourly: Salaried, professional staff
Service period: ongoing
Salary range: $56,160 – $71,760 annual ($36-46/hr at 30 hrs/wk)
Benefits: Kadima’s benefits documents
Supervised by: Rabbi & Acting Director
Kadima seeks a skilled, experienced Director of Member Development to lead our work in maximizing member care and financial giving while we undergo a process in the coming year to reinvigorate our organizational vision, purpose, and priorities. This person will complement a small, versatile, skilled team of professionals and member-leaders to lead the development of a financial plan to make this reinvigoration a sustainable reality.
Organizational Overview
Kadima Reconstructionist Community is an ever-evolving progressive Jewish community in Seattle, WA with the strong values of inclusion, social justice, and Jewish tradition. Kadima was founded over 45 years ago to be a home for radical organizers and protesters against injustice and bigotry.
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, Kadima bridges 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.
Read more about our evolving Derech Eretz (Community Norms) and Va’adat Teshuva (Committee for Repair).
The Opportunity
Kadima is hiring a Director of Member Development to play a crucial role in leading, supporting, and sustaining the Kadima community. This person will help shape organizational rhythms with vision, strategy, and storytelling. They will develop membership engagement systems that ensure the health and vitality of the Kadima network. They will tend to the wellness of Kadima’s membership and financial sustainability while enrolling Kadima staff, board officers, and member-leaders to execute this systematically organization-wide.
The Director of Member Development will collaborate with Kadima’s Rabbi & Acting Director, Director of Youth & Family Learning, Operations & Finance Manager, and Communications Manager as well as board officers and member-leaders to envision and implement a strategy for member care and financial sustainability in the model of fundraising as community organizing. This role offers space for shaping responsibilities, priorities, and desired impacts, while building an inclusive, proactive, and sustained justice-committed community.
Kadima is in a time of growth and we are building a visionary leadership team that can use an equity and intersectional justice-based lens and community organizing approach in all that we do.
Responsibilities
1. Resource Mobilization
- Collaborate with the Rabbi & Acting Director and share responsibility for the financial wellness and growth of Kadima
- Organize the entire staff team, board officers, and member-leaders in development efforts
- Cultivate member engagement and care through relationships with existing, new, and prospective members.
- Oversee teams on resource organizing projects including our current fundraising calendar and any additions:
- High Holiday fundraising ($25-30k)
- End of (Gregorian) Year campaign ($12-25k)
- Heart & Chutzpah [spring fundraising event/season] ($55-65k)
- Ongoing grant research & writing ($0-10k)
- Annual new membership drive [late Winter] ($1-5k)
- High Holiday fundraising ($25-30k)
- Collaborate on membership organizing systems, infrastructures, rosters, and communication strategies with the Operations & Finance and Communications Managers to improve member management, activation, and information sharing.
- Develop and implement data-driven strategies for meeting resource allocation goals in alignment with Kadima’s social justice and equity values.
2. Member Wellbeing
- Organize, nurture, and build Kadima member relationships through the development and implementation of community engagement strategies and outreach initiatives.
- Lead care-work initiatives and craft proactive mutual aid protocols that support community organizing efforts, collective care, and social justice actions.
- Discover the interests and passions of Kadima members and potential members, and transmit that understanding to other staff and member-leaders to address those interests and passions.
- Organize semi-regular new member orientations.
3. Organizational Wellbeing
- Evolve policies for member equity, safety, communication, and repair in alignment with justice practices and abolitionist approaches to support sustainable and equitable growth of the organization.
- Operate as organizational expert on fundraising and member engagement strategy, and train staff, board, and member-leaders toward a culture of member development aligned with all of the above.
- Collaborate toward big-picture visions, strategies, and storytelling that celebrate Kadima’s values, history, present, and future aspirations.
Skills & Experience
The ideal candidate will be an experienced grassroots fundraiser, skilled community organizer, and have ease in a variety of Jewish communities and movement spaces. Particular skills and experience desired includes:
- Experience planning and organizing 100-300 person, $5,000-$60,000 fundraising events that met or exceeded financial goals.
- Knowledge of non-profit financial management, institutional fundraising, and individual fundraising practices.
- Compassionate and efficient management experience, proven effectiveness when directly supervising others, and working together in a model of power-sharing that supports their growth.
- Experience in leading strategic planning, short- and long-term goal and benchmark setting, and holding a significant role in running operationally sound organizations.
- Understanding of and ability to integrate social justice principles in a work setting.
- Technologically savvy with general google and database products.
- Ability to work both independently and collaboratively as part of a team.
- Strong attention to detail, demonstrated ability to follow through on commitments, and ability to support others in doing the same.
- Clear verbal and written communication skills.
- Understanding of Jewish time and culture, with an articulated sense of Jewish liberation.
- Experience building agendas and facilitating groups including wide ranging identities.
- Capacity to maintain resilience alongside humility when engaging with critique.
- Proficiency in planning and executing accessible hybrid (in-person/virtual) events.
- Motivational and inspiring approach to building effective member-leader teams.
- Committed to and excited about ongoing learning, experimentation, and creative disruption of the status quo.
- Committed to organizing based on emergent strategy, relational organizing, and relational culture, and/or committed to learning about and deepening in these approaches.
- Experience operating and leading in a diverse member-driven organization.
- Inspired by a vision of personal and communal Jewish liberation and culture transformation.
- Ability and desire to lead Jewish ritual, music, and life- and year- cycle gatherings, with possible training as a rabbi, kohenet, song leader, or other Jewish leadership training.
Working/Organizational Environment
- Where we work: The office work environment is largely remote, with most work happening on Zoom, Discord, Signal, email, and occasional in-person meetings. Community events and gatherings are either on zoom only or are hybrid in-person and on zoom.
- When we work: The person in this role will participate in staff meetings scheduled weekly for mutual success, four-to-six board officer meetings annually (which meet 2x/month on Thursday evenings), one-to-four full board meeting (which meet 1x/month on a Thursday evening), and occasional evening and/or Sunday meetings with member-leaders as needed. This position otherwise allows for self-directed and self-set hours with some needed overlap with co-workers.
- The team: The regular office staff includes the Rabbi & Acting Director, Director of Youth & Family Learning, Operations & Finance Manager, and Communications Manager. In addition, there are approximately 10 teachers for Kadima's youth and family programming. Kadima is also in the process of hiring two paid consultants: one for 1:1 Fundraising Coaching and one for Disability Justice. The organization also benefits from the involvement of many active and passionate board members and member-leaders.
- Supervision: Receive supervision from Kadima’s Rabbi & Acting Director. Supervision includes, but is not limited to, weekly check-ins and meetings twice a year for 360 feedback and review. We envision the Director of Member Development role eventually becoming a supervisor for one or more roles currently supervised by our Rabbi & Acting Director (i.e. Operations & Finance Manager and Communications Manager). This is dependent on the number of weekly hours worked and amount of experience with Kadima.
How To Apply
Please send a resume and brief cover letter (written or video) detailing why you want to do the job and how your experience and skills are a match for this role to office@kadima.org with “Director of Member Development” in the subject line. Interviews will take place in March. Start date is flexible, anticipating Spring.
Anticipated timeline:
- First interviews with 1-2 members of our hiring team, March 12-22
- Take home exercise followed by an interview with a group of Kadima stakeholders, March 24-April 12
- Reference checks following group interview
- Offers made to finalists April 19-24 with flexible start date in May or early June
Anti Oppression Commitment
Kadima has signed on to the Not Free to Desist letter (see the Seattle-specific letter) and has made a commitment to “reimagine our collective Jewish covenant, centering racial justice and equity.” We are also committed to creating a more equitable organization through our work to undo cis heteronormativity and classism and to deepen our disability justice work. We are actively involved in an ongoing process of examining and recreating our workplace practices, educational curriculums, programming, and more. We are excited to bring this job opportunity to our communities through a lens of equity and intersectional anti-oppression, bringing in new voices to support our work towards a culture of collective liberation. We do our best to maintain a work environment that accepts and flexes to accommodate the reality of peoples’ lives, including: parenting/caretaking, neurodivergence, health fluctuations, mental health fluctuations, etc.
Frequently cited statistics show that women and structurally marginalized and/or underrepresented groups apply to jobs only if they meet 100% of the qualifications. Kadima encourages you to apply and break that statistic, as no one ever meets 100% of the qualifications. If you do not have all of the qualifications listed above but think you could still be a good fit for this role, we encourage you to apply and we look forward to your application.
People of color, Sephardi and Mizrahi Jews, immigrants, formerly incarcerated people, people from poor and working class backgrounds, disabled people, and transgender, gender non-confirming, and Two-Spirit applicants are enthusiastically invited to apply to all roles with Kadima.
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 acknowledge that we may receive applicants whom we already know and some we do not yet know. Both current members and non-members who apply will be considered as bringing particular knowledge and perspective to the position and we are excited to be in community with members and non-members who apply.
We are grateful to Tzedek Lab for their work in creating job announcements that inspired this job announcement.
B'mitzvah Madrichimot (Guides/tutors)
Timeline |
We plan to conduct interviews on a rolling basis until each position is filled. If this posting is still on our website, the positions listed are still open!
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Organizational Context
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Kadima Reconstructionist Community is building a progressive community of inclusion, social justice, and Jewish tradition for Jews and our allies. Kadima's youth and family programs empower individuals to be the Jewish leaders in their own lives and households. We aim to enable young people and their families to understand and celebrate Jewish identity, experience a diversity of Jewish practice and informed living, and foster skill-building in our intergenerational Jewish community and outside of it. More information about our Kadima School, Yekum/teen programming, and B’mitzvah programs can be found on the Youth Programs page.
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Antioppression Commitment |
Kadima has signed onto the Not Free to Desist letter (or see the Seattle-specific letter) and made a commitment to “reimagine our collective Jewish covenant, centering racial justice and equity.” We are also committed to creating a more equitable organization through our work to undo cisheteronormativity and classism and deepen our disability justice work. We are actively involved in a long process of examining and recreating our workplace practices, educational curriculums, programming, and more. We are excited to bring these job opportunities to our communities through a lens of equity and intersectional antioppression, bringing in new voices to support our work to move us closer to a culture of collective liberation.
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A Note on Covid and public health |
We are running our youth and family programming with a multi-access approach: Kadima School are held in person and primarily indoors, following our institutional covid protocols. In accordance with these protocols, students and teachers will generally be masked when indoors. We are also providing an option for online participation in accordance with the needs of participating community members. We are grateful for your flexibility as we prioritize the access and dignity of our most vulnerable community members.
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Vaccination Requirement |
We are requiring all teachers to be fully vaccinated (including boosters) against Covid-19 by October 1, 2023, with the exception of several specific medical conditions, to be evaluated on a case-by-case basis.
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To Apply |
Please email Gilah Barker, Director of Youth & Family Learning, at gilah@kadima.org to apply. Use the position(s) you are applying for in the subject line. Include your resume and a paragraph explaining why you feel excited about the position(s).
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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.