Senior Program Associate, Bay Area

About Repair the World

Repair the World mobilizes Jews and their communities to take action to pursue a just world. We believe that service in support of social change is vital to a flourishing Jewish community and an inspired Jewish life. By 2030, Repair will catalyze one million acts of service towards repairing the world.

Repair is building a Jewish service movement of flourishing Jewish communities that serve in pursuit of a just world. Repair mobilizes young adults to serve in their communities, catalyzes service through deep partnerships within Jewish communal organizations, and inspires people to take action through time-bound thematic national service campaigns. Our mission provides volunteers with an increased connection to meaningful service and learning as a Jewish value, builds capacity for nonprofit partners to meet their missions, and deepens connections across lines of difference.

About Repair the World Bay Area

Repair the World provides volunteers with an increased connection to meaningful Jewish service and learning, deepening their connection to Jewish community and peoplehood, building bridges with local nonprofit partners by meeting pressing needs that help meet their missions, and building bridges across lines of difference.

Repair the World Bay Area launched in the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 as a home for Jewish service learning opportunities across the region: San Francisco, East Bay, and South Bay. Our programs include Service Ambassadors, Service Corps, and Jewish service learning programs, often run in partnership with JCCs, synagogues, Moishe Houses, and other local organizations. These programs meet pressing needs like food insecurity and housing justice, and each one is enriched with Jewish learning, issue-area education, and reflection.

Repair’s Service Corps mobilizes young adults to meet community needs through part-time, time-bound Jewish service. Young adults, ages 18–39, serve directly with local partners, learn about social change, local context for their service, and engage in meaningful Jewish learning sessions with their peers. Through pairing service with Jewish learning, Repair provides an entry-point to Jewish life for Jewish young adults who may not be traditionally engaged with the broader Jewish community.

Position Overview

Repair is seeking a Senior Program Associate to support the planning and facilitation of meaningful Jewish service learning programs for young adults and the broader Bay Area community. The Senior Associate will facilitate Repair’s Service Corps, a time-bound stipended program where participants engage in volunteering with a service partner and weekly Jewish learning as a group. They will also plan and facilitate meaningful Jewish service learning programs for non-immersive service participants or for the broader Jewish community.

The successful candidate will be an aspiring experiential Jewish educator, community builder, flexible self-starter and a strong facilitator. They excel at building relationships with individuals and can speak passionately about the intersection of service, social change, and Jewish values.

This is a full-time exempt position. The Senior Program Associate will report to the Senior City Director, Bay Area.

Position Responsibilities

Service Corps

• Recruit and oversee operations of 3-4 cohorts of Corps Members per year with the goal of Corps Members becoming integrated with their service partners, connected to Jewish community, and reaching their volunteer goals.
• Identify, build, and sustain existing and new relationships with local Jewish organizations and service partners for Corps Member placements.
• Coordinate and facilitate learning for Corps Members about local social issues, Jewish values and the skills needed to build Jewish service learning programs.

Program Facilitation

• Work with the Senior City Director to implement a robust and strategic programming calendar, including service opportunities that match the needs of service partners and the target audience. of service opportunities that meet partner and participant needs.
• Plan and execute 2-5 Jewish service learning programs per month:
  • Connect with service partners and local Jewish organizations
  • Prepare and gather supplies
  • Facilitate contextual issue area education, Jewish learning, meaningful volunteering, and reflection.

Additional Responsibilities

• Serve as an engagement professional for Bay Area young adults. Attend external events in support of partners and community and be involved in Jewish young adult spaces. Meet one-on-one with people who are curious about Repair. Know our volunteers by name, notice who's showing up and who's drifted, and build the relationships that turn a first-time volunteer into a Corps Member, an Ambassador, or the person who brings three friends next time.
• Coordinate and collaborate with Repair the World’s staff across the country, to share skills and resources and maintain program alignment.
• Capture photos and program stories from the field and curate content for the newsletter and social media.
• Input timely and accurate data in Monday.com and Salesforce.
• Complete office and administrative responsibilities, and other needs that arise.

Position Skills & Core Competencies

We know that you may not have all the skills listed. We encourage you to apply even if you only check some of the boxes.

• Experience in Jewish Education: Ability and excitement to integrate Jewish values and content into service programs, enriching participants’ Jewish identity, engagement, and connection.
• Service Mindset: Commitment to serving others, grounded in a belief that we can make a difference in making the world better by serving alongside our neighbors to meet community needs.
• Equity Lens: Sophisticated awareness of poverty, structural racism, and ability to facilitate conversations around these issues with diverse groups in ways that empower and open people to learning.
• Community Engagement/Relationship Building: Eagerness and excitement to network, build relationships, and actively engage with the local community with the intent of strengthening Repair’s relationships to the community and to Jewish young adults, excited to serve in our programs.
• Program Design Skills: Experience with designing and executing programs that align with our vision, with the flexibility to adapt to community needs while focusing on Jewish learning and social impact.
• Growth Mindset and Resilience: Shows resilience and a capacity for empathy, ready to adapt to new challenges and learn from them. Approaches problems with a solution-oriented attitude, eager to embrace opportunities for growth and improvement.

Requirements:

• 1+ years of Experience: Including a track record of:
  • Experience facilitating Jewish learning and/or service experiences for youth, families, or adults.
  • Ability to plan and execute community programs from concept to implementation
  • Comfort using standard technology tools (Email, G-Suite, etc.) and learning new systems (Salesforce, Monday, Slack, etc.)
  • Strong communication, organization and self-management skills
• Flexible Schedule: Availability to facilitate evening and weekend programs based on the needs of partners’ and participants’ varying schedules.
• Live and work in the Bay Area: Our work requires an in-the-community approach for our impact to be authentic and meaningful. Our city staff live and volunteer in the community in which they work and serve. The person in this role will work most days in the community or in the JCC East Bay.

Repair the World Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

We deeply value the diversity of insight, perspective, and experience brought by people from backgrounds typically underrepresented in Jewish institutions. This includes Black, Latinx, and Asian people, Black Jews, Jews of Color, Sephardi and Mizrachi Jews, lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and gender non-conforming people, and people with disabilities. We also welcome applications from people of diverse religious, spiritual, and cultural backgrounds.

The organization provides equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender expression, age, alienage or citizenship status, creed, genetic predisposition or carrier status, national origin, disability condition, marital status, status as a disabled or Vietnam era veteran, or any other protected characteristic as established by law. In addition, the organization affirmatively seeks to advance the principles of equal employment opportunity as it applies to all policies and procedures relating to recruitment and hiring, compensation, benefits, termination, and all other terms and conditions of employment.

Compensation and Benefits

Compensation at Repair the World is based on the salary band for the role and cost of living for the location. The starting salary for this full-time, exempt role is $70,500 – $72,500 dependent on experience. Benefits package includes paid time off for service in addition to vacation, sick time, personal days and holidays. Employer covers 100% of full-time employee’s health premiums (medical/dental/vision) for most plans and 50% for dependents. Additional benefits include retirement matching, professional development funds, employer-paid short and long term disability coverage plus access to the Jewish Learning Collaborative and our Economic Access Fund. In addition, employees that have been with Repair for at least six months are eligible for 16 weeks of paid parental leave (pro-rated for employees with Repair less than 6 months).

This position is included in Repair’s staff union-represented collective bargaining unit and specific terms and conditions of employment may be subject to a future collective bargaining agreement between Repair the World and the Repair the World Workers’ Union.

Application Process

The process for the hired applicant will include:

• Submit your application at this link, including your resume and a thoughtful and concise cover letter explaining how your experiences have prepared you to lead meaningful Jewish service and learning programming in the Bay Area.
• First round interview with a member of Repair’s People & Culture team.
• Second round interview with the Senior City Director, Bay Area and Senior Director of Community Impact.
• Finalists will interview in-person and meet with the Senior City Director, Bay Area and Chief Strategy Officer.
• All finalists will need to provide 2 professional references.