Jobs in the Jewish Community
As a service to our alumni and the general public, we list job openings submitted to the Hornstein Program by Jewish communal organizations and schools worldwide.
This listing is updated as job posts are received.
Hornstein alumni may also use the following services:
- Center for Career and Professional Development at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
- Career Development Center at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management
Current Openings
December 5, 2024
About Atra: Center for Rabbinic Innovation:
Working at Atra: Center for Rabbinic Innovation means joining a lean, dynamic team passionate about visionary spiritual leadership and fostering a thriving Jewish future. Atra empowers rabbis to lead with purpose and adapt to the evolving needs of the Jewish community, driving transformational change.
About this position:
This dynamic full-time role is best suited to a strategic thinker and detail-oriented do-er who excels in project management, has a way with words, appreciates varied responsibilities and is eager to contribute to a growing nonprofit organization creating large-scale change in the Jewish community. The Director of Operations will report directly to the Executive Director and will oversee consultants, working to ensure effective communication, delegation and workflow. This is a hybrid NY-based position and will have weekly in-person time at our NYC offices.
Salary range: $95K - 105K
December 5, 2024
About The Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies:
Emphasizing an experience of Jewish tradition that speaks across boundaries, Pardes brings
together Jews of all backgrounds to connect and grow through the shared language of classic
Jewish text. Since its founding in 1972 in Jerusalem, Pardes has empowered Jewish adults of all genders and upbringings to delve into timeless Jewish texts, engage deeply with Jewish
peoplehood, and strengthen their relationship with Israel. Pardes is fostering the Jewish leaders
of today and tomorrow, demonstrated by our alumni community of nearly 10,000, which
includes past and current Hillel professionals, Jewish educators, and Dorot and Wexner fellows.
Pardes is on track to further root itself in the bedrock of Jerusalem and further establish itself
as a pillar of strength in the Jewish world with the construction of its new home, Beit Karen.
About this position:
The Chief Development Officer (CDO) position is a unique and critically important role for a top
tier development executive to help optimize Pardes's fundraising opportunities. The CDO will
join Pardes at an exciting moment of transition and growth and will play a crucial leadership role with an exceptionally invested and generous community of donors and staff. Pardes is looking for someone to enhance its development infrastructure in North America and Israel and help lead Pardes through its current strategic plan and next phase of growth.
Salary range: $225K - 250K
December 5, 2024
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.
About this position:
Boston Repair is seeking a dynamic Senior Program Associate to support our service corps—Repair’s signature immersive service experience—a time-bound, stipended cohort program where participants engage in volunteering with a service partner and weekly Jewish learning as a group. The candidate will also plan and facilitate meaningful Jewish service learning programs for non-immersive service participants or for the broader Jewish community, and engage local Repair alumni to recruit their peers in service and learning.
Salary range: $58K - 61K
December 5, 2024
About 18Doors:
We’re 18Doors, a fast-paced, national Jewish nonprofit with a collegial, warm organizational culture and entrepreneurial spirit. We are the only national Jewish nonprofit laser focused on understanding, connecting with, and communicating the needs of Jewish interfaith couples and families. We aim to empower people in interfaith relationships to engage in Jewish life, consider Jewish choices, and to encourage Jewish communities to welcome and include them. Our vision is for people in interfaith relationships—however they describe themselves—to be welcomed, embraced and valued by Jewish communities and to contribute to Judaism’s enduring strength and continuity.
About this position:
Close to home and around the world, Jews and the people who love them are facing unimaginable challenges. 18Doors seeks a visionary and passionate leader who can recognize the challenges and opportunities of this unique time; determine the best way to serve and advocate for interfaith couples and families as they navigate what it means to engage in Jewish life; and lead the organization into a new phase of development and growth. There is a need to critically look at the programs, services, and content to determine the best way to move the organization forward while increasing our impact in North America. The CEO will be a dynamic leader who values and promotes 18Doors’ rich history and mission and who can leverage their people management, relationship building, and strategic fundraising skills for the benefit of the organization. The CEO will assume ultimate responsibility for the leadership, vision, strategy execution, and overall management of 18Doors, as well as its operating budget.
Salary range: $190K - 210K
November 21, 2024
About J Leaders:
J Leaders is a dynamic non-profit organization dedicated to empowering Jewish young adults to become strong leaders in their careers and the Jewish community. Through our immersive leadership development programs, we cultivate passionate and skilled individuals who will make a lasting impact locally and globally.
About this position:
J Leaders is seeking a visionary and passionate CEO (executive director) to lead our organization into the next chapter. This is an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated and experienced leader to build upon our success and propel our impact. The ideal candidate will be responsible for the overall strategic direction and day-to-day operations of the organization.
Salary range: $110K - 130K
November 21, 2024
About Beth Emet Synagogue:
Our goal is to be a haven where we find comfort, experience joy, and develop insight through Jewish teachings and tradition so that we might lead lives of purpose and holiness. Keeping with the congregation’s commitment to freedom and liberty for all, champions of progressive ideas have found a welcome place on Beth Emet’s bimah (pulpit), including Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1958.
About this position:
The Director of Lifelong Learning is a senior member of our Klei Kodesh (senior leaders) and is responsible for the vision, strategy, and management of all educational programs for families, children, teens and adults with a focus on building relationships and learning communities that transform, or at least impact, our souls, Jewish identities and quality of life. Beth Emet’s Director of Lifelong Learning is a catalyst for broader community-building and the holder of our vision for sustained learning for all members. We anticipate that this role will evolve over time based on the strengths and influence of the hired leader as well as the transition in our rabbi in summer of 2026.
Salary range: $110 - 135K
November 13, 2024
About Gateways: Access to Jewish Education:
Gateways provides high quality special education services, expertise and support to enable students with diverse learning needs to succeed in Jewish educational settings and participate meaningfully in Jewish life.
About this position:
Gateways: Access to Jewish Education provides high quality special education services, expertise, and support to enable students with diverse learning needs to succeed in Jewish educational settings and participate meaningfully in Jewish life. We are seeking a dedicated and detail-oriented full-time Development Assistant/Executive Assistant to join our team. This role will provide essential support to our Director of Development and Communications to assist in all development efforts, including fundraising activities, donor relations, event planning, database and project management as well as executive assistance to the Chief Executive Officer in coordinating Gateways Board and committee meetings, and overall support to enable them both to meet strategic fundraising goals. The ideal candidate is organized, possesses excellent communication skills, thrives in a collaborative environment, and is passionate about contributing to an organization dedicated to providing inclusive educational opportunities within the Jewish community.
Salary range: $50K - 55K
November 13, 2024
About the Jewish Education Project:
For over 100 years, The Jewish Education Project has been supporting educators to build strong Jewish communities. Originally The Board of Jewish Education, The Jewish Education Project provides professional development and other resources to educators in early childhood centers, congregations, day schools and yeshivot, youth programs, and emerging spaces.
About the Manager, Think-Action Lab position:
The Jewish Education Project seeks a dynamic full-time Manager as an integral member of the Jewish Education team to implement our work supporting innovation in the structure, pedagogy, and content of Jewish educational environments across North America. The successful candidate will contribute to creating resources that make these ideas accessible to educators, and to planning and implementing professional development to help educators change their practice. The Manager will contribute to advancing thought leadership and innovation through our Think-Action team.
Salary range: $75K - 85K
About the Director, Research and Evaluation, TJEP position:
The Director of Research and Evaluation serves a unique and expansive role balancing research, evaluation, strategy, execution, and teaching roles within the agency. The Director is responsible for leading various research efforts designed to learn about both end users (children, teens, their families) as well as Jewish educators. Additionally, as a key member of the Think-Action team, s/he/they will be responsible for integrating learnings across the agency and modulating our work according to our learnings.
Salary range: $120K - 130K
About the Director, Research and Evaluation, RootOne position:
Data plays a central role in RootOne’s work – it directly informs our decisions and is the single most powerful tool we utilize to create substantive change within the field of teen Israel travel and education. By defining and measuring impact, and by working directly with trip providers and tour operators in utilizing data to recognize the strengths of their work as well as the opportunities for impact growth, RootOne’s research and evaluation efforts guide itinerary development, educator and staff roles and training, recruitment, innovation and so much more. Typically, RootOne generates 25-30 research projects each with their own research questions, instruments, analyses, and findings.
Salary range: $130K - 150K
November 13, 2024
About T'ruah:
T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights brings the Torah’s ideals of human dignity, equality, and justice to life by empowering rabbis and cantors to be moral voices and to lead Jewish communities in advancing democracy and human rights for all people in the United States, Canada, Israel, and the occupied Palestinian territories.
About the Deputy CEO position:
T’ruah is seeking a full-time Deputy CEO who will work in partnership with the CEO to advance T’ruah’s strategic vision, ensure that T’ruah’s policies and programming advance our strategy, guide sustainable growth, support the growth of a values-driven staff culture, lead key interdepartmental processes, address organizational challenges and opportunities, and represent the organization in public forums and key partnerships.
Salary range: $105K - 150K
About the Director of Learning position:
T'ruah is seeking a Director of Learning to oversee our Jewish educational content and professional resource development, design and implement our thought leadership plan, contribute to the development of rabbinic and cantorial trainings, and develop the leadership of rabbi and cantor members by working with them on resource creation.
Salary range: $80K - 105K
October 23, 2024
About Jewish New Teacher Project:
The Jewish New Teacher Project is a division of the New Teacher Center focused on Jewish day schools. JNTP brings NTC’s proven approach to education and mentoring methodology to teachers of all subjects and grades in Jewish day schools. Since 2003, JNTP has worked with over 225 schools and over 2,000 educators. This year alone, over 40,000 students in Jewish day schools have a teacher trained by JNTP.
About this position:
The Associate, JNTP Program Operations will report to the Executive Director, JNTP, and will be responsible for supporting critical aspects of JNTP’s operations and program execution. This includes organizing professional development events, assisting with recruitment, managing registration and contracts, conducting development activities, assessing impact, and providing administrative support to the senior leadership of JNTP. The Associate, JNTP Program Operations will collaborate with almost every member of the JNTP team and several departments at the New Teacher Center to ensure the continuity and efficiency of JNTP operations and program delivery.
Salary range: $65K - 88K
October 23, 2024
About Hebrew Union College:
Founded in 1875, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion is North America's leading institution of higher Jewish education and the academic, spiritual, and professional leadership development center of Reform Judaism. HUC-JIR educates leaders for service to American and world Jewry as rabbis, cantors, experts in Jewish education, and Jewish nonprofit management professionals, and offers graduate degree programs to scholars and clergy of all faiths. With centers of learning in Cincinnati, Jerusalem, Los Angeles, and New York, HUC-JIR's scholarly resources comprise renowned library, archive, and museum collections, biblical archaeology excavations, and academic publications.
About this position:
HUC-JIR seeks an organized, dedicated, service-oriented, self-starter as our new Alumni Engagement Associate (AEA). Reporting to the Director of Alumni Engagement, the AEA will manage core organizational, programmatic, development communications functions of the College-Institute's alumni engagement operations, with the goal of providing best-in-class service HUC-JIR's robust alumni community, and leveraging their resources to support the work of the College-Institute. The Alumni Engagement Associate must possess the flexibility and willingness to travel as needed. A willingness to work evenings and occasional weekends to participate in events is also needed.
Salary range: $65K - 70K
September 19, 2024
About CYJ Sprout Brooklyn Day camp:
Young Judaea Sprout Brooklyn Day Camp, nestled in Red Hook, offers a unique Hebrew dual-language camp experience for children entering Pre-K through 5th grade. We create a dynamic space for children from diverse backgrounds to form a joyful community based on Jewish values, a shared connection to Israel and the Hebrew language.
About the Position:
We’re seeking a collaborative team player with a dynamic personality to help us bring summer to life all year round. As our Assistant Camp Director you’ll be responsible for educational programming, staff recruitment, hiring, and providing essential support to our day-to-day operations. This is not your typical desk job, but a hands-on, creative, role. The Assistant Director is not afraid to stand up in front of a crowd, wears multiple hats, thrives in diversity, and has camp vision. It's full of opportunities for someone to shine!
Salary Range: $55K-60K
September 18, 2024
About Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Foundation:
The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Foundation’s mission is to contribute to the flourishing of the United States and Israel as just, inclusive, compassionate and democratic societies, and to improve the quality of life in both countries. The Foundation’s major areas include leadership development, management of nonprofits, the humanities, Jewish life and urban engagement.
About this position:
The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Foundation is seeking an Operations Associate at the Mandel Institute for Nonprofit Leadership in Brookline, Massachusetts. The Operations Associate will play a pivotal role in ensuring the success of our leadership development programs by providing comprehensive operational support and coordination. Key qualifications include proficiency with technology and digital platforms, skill in administrative coordination and financial management, and a desire to support a mission-driven organization.
Salary range: $55k - 65K
September 4, 2024
About Temple Isaiah:
Temple Isaiah is a diverse and welcoming community, committed to building connection, lifelong learning, personal growth, and action inspired by Judaism. For more than 60 years, Temple Isaiah has been a thriving and relevant presence in the Jewish community.
About this position:
Temple Isaiah seeks an experienced philanthropic professional with a passion for nonprofit excellence to lead and grow its fundraising program. As a member of Temple Isaiah’s senior leadership team, this is a unique opportunity to create and execute fundraising strategies with a donor-centered philosophy to ensure that annual fund revenue and gifts from major donors will increase to support the temple’s mission.
Salary range: $110K - 125K