Come and build Helsinki’s Jewish future as our new Director of Jewish Life and Learning

HaKehila

Are you a Jewish educator, community builder, an almost-rabbi or experience designer? Are you tired of feeling like a cog in a machine and excited to find a role where you can have a huge impact with ripples across space and time? Are you worried about the increasing divisions forming across the Jewish world and committed to being a bridge-builder, forging connections that bring Klal Israel together?

Helsinki is your next stop.

The Jewish Community of Helsinki is recruiting a new Director of Jewish Living and Learning. The Director of Jewish Living and Learning will infuse community programming with Jewish knowledge and core Jewish values on a molecular level, ensuring that community members are engaging in, and creating, nourishing Jewish experiences that will pave the way for a meaningful Jewish life for them, their children, and their children’s children.

Is this you?

You have strong Jewish knowledge, and are passionate about meaningful Jewish living.
You are an attentive listener and excellent communicator.
You consider Jewish education to be a joy, a calling, and a way to empower those who are willing to pull up a seat with you.
You are inspiring and creative—an out-of-the-box thinker who can get others to buy into your vision.
You are a do-er, a hands-on person who can take an idea from seed to fruitful tree.
You are a leader. You intentionally use yourself to make a positive difference for those around you.
You are deeply committed to inclusion and relationship-building, and you understand that Klal Israel is made up of all its members, and greater than the sum of its parts.
You are seeking a professional opportunity to stretch your talents, and gain powerful and impressive experiences for your future career.
The cold never bothered you anyway!

What you’ll do: inspire, empower, lead

Create and implement inspiring cross-communal programs: bring community members together across age, denomination, and background categories, being attentive to the needs of community members and creating exciting Jewish opportunities that speak to those needs.
Organise: oversee logistics so events run smoothly.
Connect: You will strengthen community bonds through volunteer programs, partnerships with the Jewish school, organisations (both global and local) and direct member outreach.
Communicate vision across the community staff team: help the team row in the same direction, and get further together.
Manage the Youth Engagement team.
Galvanize community volunteers: recruit and manage community members to get in the driver’s seat and produce the community they want to be a part of.