Director of Member Development

Work With Us!

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:

Barak (7th grade) Israel/Palestine teacher
B'mitzvah Madrichimot (Guides/tutors) (rolling start dates)

Kadima School Teachers

Position overview

Kadima School is seeking energetic and creative teachers to join our team of committed, collaborative, passionate, justice-seeking Jewish educators in 5785 (2024-2025). We have one classroom lead positions available at the moment:

7th grade (theme: Israel/Palestine/19th-21st century Jewish history)

More information about Kadima School and each class’s curriculum can be found here.

Timeline

We are seeking to fill this position ASAP, with a preferred start date of September 8th for our Teachers’ Retreat. If this posting is still on our website, the position is still open!

Organizational Context

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.

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.

Job Responsibilities

Using the framework of an existing curriculum, develop and implement activities for Shabbat morning (or Tuesday afternoon) classes, drawing on creative, developmentally appropriate, and culturally relevant pedagogy.
Support families with regular communication about the class and individual students, building individual relationships with young people and their families.
- Including classwide communications through either email or WhatsApp.
Foster a safe and joyous learning environment.
Setup and cleanup classroom before and after each class.
Maintain open communication with the Director of Youth and Family Learning.
- Eg: giving advance notice of absences to the extent possible, requesting supplies, collaborative brainstorming, etc.
Other related tasks in support of Kadima School not in excess of compensated hours described below.

Required Availability

For Shabbat roles: First, second, and third Shabbat mornings each month from September 14, 2024 through June 7, 2025. (Classes run from 10am-noon.)
For Tuesday roles: Tuesdays from September 17, 2024 through June 7, 2025. (Classes run from 4:45-6:45 and include a dinner break.)
For all: There are some exceptions to the above for school breaks and Jewish holidays.
- See Youth and Family calendar for details.
Two day-long faculty retreats on Sunday 9/8/24 and a Sunday TBD in January or early February.
Faculty meetings on occasional pre-scheduled evenings throughout the school year.

Compensation

Salary is paid over 10 months.
Salary is determined by a step scale.
- For new teachers, the range is $29.66 to $32.29/hour, with increases for each additional year in the role.
- Each hour in the classroom is compensated as 2.5 hours of work to account for prep time and meetings.
- For Shabbat teaching roles, there are 46 classroom hours September to June.
- For Tuesday teaching roles, there are 60 classroom hours September to June.
Paid sick time, to be used between September 2024 and June 2025, is 3.25 hours (Shabbat) / 4.25 hours (Tuesday).
Paid bereavement days at reasonable discretion of the Director of Youth & Family Learning.
Professional development opportunities.
Complimentary membership to Kadima.
No-fee enrollment in all Kadima School programs for children in your family, if applicable.

Anti-oppression 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 anti-oppression, bringing in new voices to support our work to move us closer to a culture of collective liberation.

A Note on Covid and public health

Kadima has required masking during Kadima School and nearly all indoor events, except for when eating and drinking. We have not required masking for outdoor events. The Board of Directors is in a process of evaluating our masking policy and its impacts on our community going forward with the possibility of maintaining masking indoors for the foreseeable future as a public health protection. Applicants should be okay with the possibility of working while masked. Should you need masking to be able to work in-person and indoors, we would like to know.

Covid Vaccination Requirement: We require all teachers to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19, with the exception of several specific medical conditions, to be evaluated on a case-by-case basis.

To Apply:

Email Gilah Barker, Director of Youth & Family Learning, at [email protected], subject: “Teaching at Kadima”. Please include your resume and a paragraph explaining why you feel excited about teaching in this community. Please also indicate which age(s) / topic(s) you feel most excited about teaching, if any.

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.

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!

Organizational Context

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.

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.

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.

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.

To Apply

Please email Gilah Barker, Director of Youth & Family Learning, at [email protected] 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).