About Jews United for Justice and the Collaborative for Jewish Organizing
Jews United for Justice advances economic, racial, and social justice in the Washington, DC and Maryland region by educating and mobilizing our local Jewish communities to action. We move our region closer to equity and justice by advancing issue-based campaigns that make real, immediate, and concrete improvements in people’s lives and build the power of working-class and poor communities of color. Through these campaigns we develop leaders,
build our Jewish grassroots community, shift the consciousness of our community, and build the collective power needed to undo systemic racism and inequality. Learn more about JUFJ. The Collaborative for Jewish Organizing is a project of JUFJ. The Collaborative generates resources for and strengthens capacity of nine organizations, including JUFJ, that are engaged in domestically-focused organizing for economic and racial justice across 16 states and DC. Learn more about the Collaborative.
Program Manager Role
The program manager will manage select programs of the Collaborative, including the combating antisemitism program and select peer networking and support programs. The program manager reports to the Director of the Collaborative for Jewish Organizing. This is a 20-25 hour per week part-time
exempt staff position, or a consulting role.
Advance the Collaborative’s work fighting antisemitism:
- Facilitate information-sharing, analysis development, and collaboration among Collaborative members, including coordinating interfaces of communications among Collaborative organizers, antisemitism-fighting staff, and other relevant stakeholders for shared learning and peer networking, and identifying and prioritizing needs for expert support
- Identify and articulate strategic needs, intervention opportunities, and choice points for Collaborative consideration in the work of combating antisemitism
- Work with Uprise Communications and Collaborative partners to ensure antisemitism-fighting tools are up to date, easily accessed, and well used
- The work may also include developing and delivering relevant trainings for a range of audiences
- Represent the Collaborative’s analysis and approach(es) to fighting antisemitism in coalitional spaces, including with both Jewish and non-Jewish partners
- Ensure this work is well-documented (i.e. tracking and periodically synthesizing Collaborative members’ antisemitism-fighting work) for learning and fundraising purposes
Manage select peer support and networking efforts for Collaborative member staff:
- Establishing and priming channels for communication
- Working with staff of member groups to support their participation in peer networking, and also shape the work and at times provide leadership to their peer group
- Organize meetings and trainings for peer networking groups
- Ensure work is well-documented for learning and fundraising purposes
Key Qualifications and Experience
Project Management: Ability to manage multiple projects, consult with various stakeholders, anticipate obstacles, run a tight ship, coordinate staff and internal resources, and keep a cool head while doing it.
Collaboration Skills: Track record of developing and maintaining trusting relationships with a diverse range of stakeholders; an ability to meet people where they are, find common ground, and inspire collective action.
Communication Skills: Persuasive, professional writing and strong verbal communication.
Strategic Thinking: Capacity to be a thought partner with the Director
Team Player/Professionalism: Be reliable, a self-starter, with high standards who takes initiative. Accustomed to holding yourself accountable for your words and actions. Willingness to work occasional irregular hours, e.g. coordinating occasional rapid response support, or evening meeting time at an in-person retreat or gathering.
Commitment to the Mission: Actively demonstrate a commitment to integrity, credibility, and dedication to the mission.
Anti-oppression and equity orientation: Committed to the work of combating antisemitism with an understanding of its relationship to other forms of oppression, and equally committed to addressing all forms of oppression.
Familiarity with varying approaches and conceptual frameworks for combating antisemitism. Familiarity with stakeholders is a plus.
Logistics
Location: This role may be conducted from remote locations. There are also options for working in-person at JUFJ offices in Baltimore, or in DC for part of each week.
Compensation: $30-45/hour, depending on experience and if the role is structured as a part-time staff or consultant role.
JUFJ and the Collaborative for Jewish Organizing is committed to building a diverse team that draws on the strengths of people with a variety of identities, backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. People of color, indigenous people, LGBTQ+ people, and immigrants are particularly encouraged to apply. You do not need to be Jewish. If interested, please share your resume and reasons for interest in the role with susan@collaborativeforjewishorganizing.org.
