Work for us

We’re looking for a Community Programme Manager 

Key info: 

• £150 a day, 1 day a week  

• Remote working available, with occasional in-person training and meetings required at our office in Finchley and our communities across London and the UK. Team members are welcome to work in our friendly office as much as desired.  

• Fixed term contract – lasting until August 2025 

About us: 

Masorti Judaism is a community development, leadership training and youth work charity, serving as the umbrella organisation for a network of Jewish communities in London and across the UK. We enable our teams of rabbis, community leaders and youth workers to support over 6000 community members and young people.  

We’ve been working on improving prayer and ritual knowledge in the Masorti movement, to increase people’s connection with prayer and Jewish life. We are now ready for the next stage in our growth, and we need a Community Programme Manager to help us get there. The job is to amplify Masorti ritual and prayer across our communities, to people of all ages. You’ll be managing our offerings for Masorti young adults, coordinating bespoke training for our communities, and co-creating the Masorti annual conference, Yom Masorti, amongst other exciting opportunities.  

You’ll be using our new website we’ve created for this project: it’s called Shema Koleinu and it houses the prayers and rituals of the Masorti tradition (which follow Ashkenazi customs). Thanks to a grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund, it is now up and running, and we are constantly updating it with new content. 

This is a freelance role for the right person to join us for culmination of this project. You’ll be joining a strong team including rabbis and Chazzanim, a marketing officer and our Director of Programming and Outreach. 

 
The role: 

• Running training and educational events on prayer, using the resources of the website across the Masorti movement. 

• Co-ordinating events and learning for Masorti young adults together with a team of rabbis 

• Working with the scholar-in-residence and the Masorti rabbinic team to develop and co-ordinate the delivery of our programming 

• Supporting Noam Masorti Youth to develop their tefilla and ritual skills 

• Working with communities to develop and co-ordinate bespoke in-person training 

• Working with the training and production manager to promote the website’s resources 

• Working with the Director of Programming to plan and deliver an annual conference 

About you: 

You are a unique combination of great project management skills plus familiarity with Jewish prayer and ritual. You have experience of education, training, community work or youth work and or/ project and event management skills. You have strong interpersonal skills and a genuine passion for Jewish community and young adult outreach.  

To apply, please send your CV and covering letter to [email protected] by midnight on Sunday 11th August 2024.