Work With Us!
Kadima currently has several faculty positions available for the 5783 (2022-2023) 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:
- Tuesday 5th-6th Grades Co-teacher
- Shabbat School Musical Liturgist
Timeline |
We have begun conducting interviews, and plan to make offers by the third week of September. The Co-teacher position begins in September with time dedicated to curriculum development and preparations. The Assistant Teacher position begins in October when classes begin. 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 Youth Group, 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 and Yekum Youth Group are expected to be 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 a selected portion of our content online in accordance with the needs of participating community members. Therefore teaching may also occur outdoors or online at some point during the school year. 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, 2022, 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.
Tuesday 5th-6th Grades Co-teacher
Position Overview
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Ra’am is our 5th-6th grade class focused on the central questions: How do communities determine their Jewish practices? How do we individually make decisions about how we want to live Jewishly? The class uses theater, role play, illustration/visual arts, debate, reading, videos, and discussions to explore these questions. On Shabbat, Ra’am examines a wide range of Jewish traditions throughout the diaspora and across time, and on Tuesdays, students reflect on the role of Jewish tradition in their own lives. This position is to co-teach the Tuesday portion of the class.
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Shabbat School Musical Liturgist
Position Overview |
This is a new position that will allow our program to integrate liturgy into our young people’s programs in a structured way, both supporting and informing the work that classroom teachers are doing with their cohorts. Our musical liturgists will lead Shabbat morning services designed specifically for young people on second Saturday mornings during the school year. We will collaboratively create young people’s services focused on Kadima’s liturgy while also creating a laboratory for young people to access many traditions of Jewish language and melody. Several positions are available, as we are creating a musical liturgist team to rotate through the dates listed below, and welcome applications from people who are excited to co-create the role together!
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