Education Director Search
Beth El Hebrew Congregation is seeking an Education Director to join our congregation beginning in the 2023 - 2024 school year. This position provides an opportunity to connect to a deep history and strong communal roots while also helping to lead our students and families into a strong Jewish future.
About the Position:
The role of Education Director will have oversight capacity of the congregation’s religious school and will create a culture of supplementary religious education that continues through high school and responds to every learner’s background and needs. As a leader within the synagogue, you will drive and manage the growth of the religious school, ensuring that comprehensive systems are in place to encourage and support that growth. As Education Director, you will foster meaningful connections with our students and their families beginning in early childhood and continuing through high school. You will work in close collaboration with our board of trustees, executive committee, past presidents, and standing committees.
About Our Congregation:
As the oldest Reform congregation in Northern Virginia (founded in 1871) with a robust tradition of volunteer support, our strengths are numerous. We are a warm, intergenerational community that cares deeply about social justice and civic engagement. We are proud of what we have accomplished, and we are committed to experimenting with bold new programs. Education begins with our in-house preschool, run jointly with the JCCNV, and continues through a dynamic religious school, post-b’nei mitzvah education, and adult education. We are sensitive to the needs of our intergenerational community, and we take responsibility for the world through tikkun olam and tzedakah.
As the oldest Reform congregation in Northern Virginia (founded in 1871) with a robust tradition of volunteer support, our strengths are numerous. We are a warm, intergenerational community that cares deeply about social justice and civic engagement. We are proud of what we have accomplished, and we are committed to experimenting with bold new programs. Education begins with our in-house preschool, run jointly with the JCCNV, and continues through a dynamic religious school, post-b’nei mitzvah education, and adult education. We are sensitive to the needs of our intergenerational community, and we take responsibility for the world through tikkun olam and tzedakah.
Being welcoming is our starting point. We recognize that becoming an inclusive Jewish community is a constant process upon which we focus our lens, striving to include interfaith families, single-parent families, LGBTQ families and individuals, racially and ethnically diverse Jewish families and individuals, Jews by choice, and congregants of all abilities in all that we do and all that we are.
When you join our staff, you join a small team of dedicated and passionate professionals who believe that talented individuals can accomplish great things. We share a vision of a “sacred Jewish community for all who seek connection, meaning and healing” and constantly look to make sure that everything we do is in alignment with this ideal.
To Apply:
Send your resume and cover letter to search@bethelhebrew.org.
We welcome applicants of every background, race, ethnicity, national origin, gender identity, disability status, marital status, and sexual orientation.
Thu, September 21 2023 6 Tishrei 5784
