Position: Program Manager, NuRoots Community
Department: Ensuring the Jewish Future
Union Grade 14
Union Grade 14 Salary Range $71,218 to $95,966
Budgeted Salary $75,000
Time Limited: December 31, 2025
(extension dependent on grant funding)
Summary Description Of Team
As an integral part of Federation’s Ensuring the Jewish Future Strategic Initiative, The Young Adult Engagement (YAE) Department is responsible for helping Jewish young adults (18-40ish) feel a sense of connection and belonging by living a Jewish life that is joyful, meaningful, and relevant to their lives.
NuRoots Serves As Federation’s Young Adult Community Building Initiative With The Aim To Inspires And Mobilizes Young Adults To Create Meaningful Connection To Jewish Community Across Los Angeles. When Every Young Jewish Angeleno Feels Connected To Their Identity And Their Community, We Will Have a Thriving, Resilient, And Interconnected Jewish LA. Our Values Serve As The Road Map For How We Operate In And With Our Community
Our values serve as the road map for how we operate in and with our community:
- Modern Interpretation: There are endless possibilities to connect with what it means to be Jewish.
- Hyper-Local Roots: Be in constant conversation with the diversity of people, places and stories across Los Angeles.
- Warm Invitation: Meaningful community develops through personal relationship, intimate moments, and purposeful inclusivity.
- Creative Integrity: Reimagination of Jewish ideas requires interrogation of our diverse past and ancient traditions.
- Communal Table: Collaboration builds trust which leads to the greatest community impact.
Summary Description Of Position
Reporting to the Vice President of Young Adults, the Program Manager, NuRoots Community works with Jews in their 20s & 30s to reinvent and reimagine what it means to be Jewish.
Who you are: A Program Manager, NuRoots Community is a dynamic and engaging position for an energetic, personable, and wellrounded person with a keen interest in community building. Serving various “micro-communities,” NuRoots’ Program Managers, NuRoots
About
Community (warmly referred to in the field as “Creators”), are passionate about building Jewish community and galvanizing the 20s and 30s in L.A. to “do Jewish” in a way that’s meaningful, relevant, and creates longevity. We hope you approach our impact work in the following ways:
- Depth & Breadth: You are social, enjoy deep conversation, don’t care much for small talk, and are equally comfortable putting together an intimate gathering for 10-20 peers as they are contributing to a large-scale-150+-person experience.
- Co-lla-bo-ra-tion: You are a team-oriented individual.
- A Dreamer: You are a huge thinker with a curiosity for Jewish culture, heritage, wisdom and practice
- Hyper-local: You have your favorite parks, coffee shops, and neighborhood spots saved in Google Maps – you have great knowledge of the city we play in to create novel and personalized Jewish experiences.
- Weaver: You’re a relationship builder and can’t leave the supermarket without meeting someone new and learning a lot about who they are. You have a network and know how to use it!
Principal Duties - Develop strategic engagement plans & organization of young adult activities & connections within the general NuRoots initiatives through five primary activities:
- One-on-one conversations
- Empower intimate local gatherings
- Support community-partner events
- Organize diverse scales of gatherings or experiences
- Build, maintain and grow micro-communities
- Engage community member volunteers to help in planning & implementing small & large scale Jewishly- impactful experiences for young adults to experience.
- Utilize a customer service relationship management system (DRIVE) to track community member involvement and participation, relationships, and event participation.
- Build an engagement volunteer strategy to assist in outreaching to young adults within their target identity group.
- Cultivate vibrant & meaningful Jewish life in target Los Angeles neighborhood/interest groups in conversation with community partners.
- Work closely with community leaders to connect the activities of NuRoots with the existing community.
- Develop, cultivate & steward relationships with young adults and volunteers.
- Attend & staff NuRoots events &/or meetings.
- Participate in skill builder sessions.
- Develop, create & manage impact stories of community members.
- Mobilize, organize, train & serve alongside community members to build connections with people, organizations & community leaders to create meaningful, high-impact projects that engage young adults in diverse Jewish experiences.
Position Details
- No regularly set schedule, one day in office per week or as needed
- Flexible work hours including nights and weekends.
- Remote work site.
- Position requires traveling reasonable distances in personal vehicle to work locations on a day-to-day basis; business miles reimbursed.
- Staff immersive experiences including but not limited to: Birthright Israel, Trybal Gatherings, HMI, and JDC Entwine.
Additional Duties
Be available to assist supervisor and Sr. VP of Ensuring the Jewish Future with additional duties and assignments, as required, including assisting with the Campaign.
Education & Experience Required For Position
- BA degree preferred. 2-3 years of relevant experience in outreach/community organizing.
- Consistent ability to reach out, schedule, organize and maintain notes on every experience
- Passionate creative team player.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills. Confidence in building relationships and networks.
- Savvy social media networking skills and proficiency in mobile technology
- Strong proficiency in MS Office Suite: Excel, Word, Outlook, and PowerPoint.
- Experience working with donor database or related database systems.
- Energetic, amicable, and flexible, self-motivated, and highly organized.
- Excellent administrative, written, and oral communication skills, and engaging interpersonal skills and telephone manner.
- Impeccable organization and follow-through, with ability to prioritize workload.
- Ability to multi-task and trouble-shoot, able to work both independently and within a team
- Strong attention to detail is a priority.
- Knowledge of Judaism and appreciation for an increasingly diverse Los Angeles Jewish Community a plus.
- Access to and use of vehicle required for position.
- Commitment to follow through, data entry & gathering metrics for evaluation.
- A hybrid work model will be implemented for certain positions. This position must report to worksite on non-remote workdays, as determined by the Federation.
- All staff and building occupants must be fully vaccinated and proof of vaccination status will be required. Please disclose if accommodation to the Federation’s vaccination policy is sought for medical reasons or sincerely held religious beliefs
