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 national 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.
Repair the World provides volunteers with an increased connection to meaningful service and learning as a Jewish value, deepening their connection to Jewish community and peoplehood, building capacity for nonprofit partners by meeting pressing needs to meet their missions, and building bridges across lines of difference.
Our Boston program launched in the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, as a home for Jewish service learning opportunities in the community, offering ongoing volunteering opportunities through strategic partnership with Jewish community partners to engage their constituents in Jewish service. Our volunteers learn how to address issues related to food sovereignty, education justice, and community building through a Jewish service learning lens. initially starting with the Repair the World service corps. Repair the World Boston’s work is done in deep partnership with the local federation, Combined Jewish Philanthropies (CJP).
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.
The service corps mobilizes young adults to meet community needs through part-time, time-bound service. Young adults, ages 18-29, serve directly with local partners providing direct services, learn about social change and local context for their service, and Jewish wisdom in community through weekly learning sessions with their peers. Through pairing service with Jewish learning and values, Boston Repair provides an entry-point to Jewish life for Jewish young adults who may not be traditionally engaged with the broader Jewish community.
In addition to the service corps, the Senior Program Associate will also create and implement dynamic and engaging Jewish service learning programs in partnership with Jewish communal and service partner organizations, as well as with local Alumni Ambassadors.
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 Boston City Director and will require in-person work.
Service Corps
Program Facilitation
Additional Responsibilities
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.
2+ years of Experience: Including a track record of:
Equity Lens: Sophisticated awareness of poverty, structural racism, power and privilege and ability to facilitate conversations around these issues with diverse groups in ways that empower and open people to learning.
Flexible Schedule: Availability to facilitate evening and weekend programs based on the needs of partners’ and participants’ varying schedules.
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 at Repair the World is based on the salary band for the role and cost of living for the location. The starting salary range for this full-time exempt role is $58,000-$61,000 with 2 years of 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.