Keshet Southwest Education and Training Manager

KEY DETAILS:

• Location: Texas
• Salary: $58-74,000/year, commensurate with experience
• Rolling applications

The Opportunity for Impact:

Put yourself at the intersection of LGBTQ+ rights, Jewish identity and the broader movement for social justice in American society. Keshet seeks a dynamic and experienced educator to join a phenomenal team. Keshet's Southwest Education & Training Manager is responsible for providing Jewish organizations throughout the Southwest with excellent training, workshops, and consultation equipping them to further Keshet’s mission for full LGBTQ equality and belonging in Jewish life. This position will work throughout OK, TX, UT, NM, NV, and AZ, with a particular focus on Jewish communities in Texas and Arizona.

The Southwest Education & Training Manager will build on relationships developed by regional and national staff on Keshet’s Education & Training and Community Mobilization teams to elevate Keshet's reputation as the go-to LGBTQ+ equality and inclusion resource for Jewish institutions in the Southwest. This staff person will lead programs and trainings that develop the capacity of Jewish organizational professionals and lay leaders to foster greater LGBTQ+ equality in their communities. Ultimately, the focus of the position is to support Jewish communities in the Southwest where LGBTQ+ Jews of all ages can thrive.

This staff person will work closely with Keshet's Southwest Community Mobilization Manager, with local Jewish and LGBTQ+ organizational partners, and with Keshet staff across the United States. The work includes substantial time building local relationships and conducting in-person networking, trainings, consultations, and workshops; we will consider applicants based in or willing to relocate to Texas, with a preference for Austin, Houston, or Dallas.

This is a remote Texas-based position, and this position will work from home. Keshet provides all staff with the equipment their supervisor determines necessary to accomplish their work.

The Southwest Education and Training Manager reports to the Director of Education & Training.

About Keshet:

Keshet works for the full equality of all LGBTQ Jews and our families in Jewish life. We turn values at the heart of Judaism—equality, inclusion, and human dignity—into action in Jewish communities across North America. We equip Jewish organizations with the tools to build LGBTQ-affirming communities, create spaces for queer Jewish teens to feel seen and valued, and mobilize the Jewish community to fight for LGBTQ rights nationwide. We engage and provide program opportunities for LGBTQ Jews of Color.

As an organization that teaches the importance of proactive LGBTQ affirming messages and actions, Keshet recognizes the similar need to make our commitment to racial equity and justice clear and explicit. We commit to embed a racial equity and justice lens into Keshet’s leadership and staff structure, political analysis, organizational policies, communications, and program content.

Keshet's national office is in Boston with offices in San Francisco, Chicago, South Florida, Texas, and New York, as well, and other staff across the United States.

Responsibilities

• Oversee and implement all aspects of Keshet’s Southwest-based education and training work, serving Jewish organizations in throughout OK, TX, UT, NM, NV, and AZ, with a particular focus on Jewish communities in Texas and Arizona
• Build continued momentum for Keshet’s local Education & Training work, and heighten Keshet’s profile through proactive outreach and relationship-building with Jewish community institutions.
• Facilitate excellent LGBTQ+ equality and inclusion trainings and consultation for Jewish institutions in Southwest both virtually and in-person.
• Make regular visits to Southwest locations with substantial Jewish populations, such as Austin, Houston, Dallas, Phoenix, and other locations as needed.
• Develop training content in response to articulated needs from Jewish organizations in the Southwest.
• Oversee and implement yearly Southwest cohorts of Shivyon: Keshet’s Equality Project. Shivyon is Keshet’s signature institutional change program; responsibility for this program includes recruitment of organizations, communication with local partners, co-facilitation of a full-day launch and lead facilitation of follow-up trainings, ongoing coaching, and logistical support for the launch and quarterly sessions.
• Serve as the local “face” of Keshet in the Southwest, attending select local gatherings to represent Keshet.
• Contribute to evaluation of trainings and provide follow-up support and resources to participants.
• Occasionally contribute to Keshet’s national Education & Training portfolio of work, including contributing to Keshet’s resource library, representing Keshet at select national gatherings, and facilitating or cofacilitating online projects for a national audience.
• Other duties as assigned.

Travel

Regular travel within the Southwest with a focus on Texas and Arizona (approximately 1 time per month, more often during peak seasons), and occasionally within other areas of the United States (approximately 4-6 times per year).

Qualifications

• Passionate commitment to Keshet’s vision and mission of advancing LGBTQ+ equality in Jewish life.
• Experience and comfort in facilitating engaging, interactive LGBTQ+ inclusion trainings for professionals.
• Experience and comfort facilitating interactive educational programming both online and in person.
• Extensive knowledge of LGBTQ+ identities and experiences and the ability to articulate the intersections among diverse Jewish and LGBTQ+ identities.
• Ability to work with organizations at various places on the spectrum of belonging and to support growth no matter what the starting point for an organization.
• Experience with institutional diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts.
• Ability to apply a racial justice and gender equity lens to programmatic work as well as staff culture.
• Ability to bring a disability access and justice lens to the work, including designing and delivering programs with access in mind and bringing this commitment to staff culture.
• Ability to skillfully navigate the Jewish communal landscape.
• Positive outlook, strong interpersonal skills, and experience in cultivating and sustaining strong relationships with colleagues and organizational partners.
• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills and ability to communicate effectively with a variety of audiences.
• Excellent analytical, planning, and project management skills.
• Comfortable with the ambiguity that sometimes occurs in a fast-paced organization, and flexible enough to meet changing demands.
• Significant knowledge of Jewish tradition, identity, and experience is preferred; ease working across a wide range of Jewish communities is essential. In particular, awareness of the unique realities of Jewish life in the Southwest is preferred.
• Firm understanding of the importance of up-to-date data management; experience with CRM a plus.
• Ease working with colleagues in multiple geographic locations and using technology to facilitate daily work and collaborative projects.
• Ability to travel regularly within the Southwest, and to travel within the United States several times per year.

Experience

2-3 years of experience in Jewish communal organizations, diversity education, or related fields.

Important Note:

Frequently cited statistics show that women, trans, and nonbinary people as well as other structurally marginalized groups are more likely to apply to jobs only if they meet 100% of the qualifications. Keshet encourages you to break that statistic and to apply for stretch positions. No one ever meets 100% of the qualifications. We look forward to your application. Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis until we find the right candidate for the position.

Keshet Equal Employment Opportunity:

Keshet is dedicated to building a culturally diverse and pluralistic staff. Keshet provides equal opportunity to all people regardless of race, color, national or ethnic origin, religion, age, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital status, veteran status, disability, citizenship status, or any other proscribed category set forth in federal or state regulations. This policy applies to all employees and candidates for employment.