Jews of Color Caucus Organizer

Dayenu: A Jewish Call to Climate Action seeks a Jews of Color Caucus Organizer to help build a spiritually rooted, multigenerational, multi-racial Jewish climate movement. We are excited to open this new position to support our nascent Jews of Color Caucus established to support, foster, and grow a community of Jews of Color addressing the climate crisis.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a dynamic young organization that is mobilizing the American Jewish community to confront the climate crisis with spiritual audacity and bold political action.

The person in this role will build and foster a community of Jews of Color who are working to address the immediate and long-term harm inflicted by the climate crisis, supporting their individual resilience, cultivating community and identifying and developing leaders and organizers to build our collective power.

Reporting Structure: The position reports to the Director of Campaigns & Organizing

Responsibilities

• Build a robust community of Jews of Color to take action on the climate crisis through fellowship, campaigns, programs, and community learning.
• Build and maintain relationships with individuals in the caucus.
• Offer training to individuals and the group to be organizers and leaders.
• Provide opportunities for caucus members to take impactful climate action and offer spiritual resourcing to caucus members to confront climate anxiety and grief and practice active hope.
• Work with the Director of Campaigns & Organizing and caucus members to develop and implement a long-term strategic plan for the caucus.
• Host regular virtual gatherings (as often as one per month) for the caucus, and potential in-person gatherings organized with caucus members.
• Promote the caucus externally and grow the size of the group, including actively recruiting people to join via phone call, text, social media, email, personal outreach, and outreach via partners.
• Meet regularly with Dayenu staff to coordinate and share information so that the JOC Caucus work is well integrated into our full organization, including campaigns, organizing, communications, and digital work.
• Build relationships with other professionals who are organizing similar communities within and outside of the Jewish community.

We know that community-building work and work with caucuses or affinity groups can often be informal, done apart from a paid job, or be one part of paid work. Generally speaking, strong candidates will have 2 or more years of experience with the following qualifications, and we recognize this work in all its forms.

Qualifications:

• Demonstrated ability to build and foster a new community.
• Organizing experience, including creating and executing a strategic plan, recruiting, and sharing a compelling vision.
• Ability to both foster individual relationships and actively develop people into organizers and leaders, including formal and informal training, mentorship, and holding people accountable.
• Significant experience working with Jews of Color communities, including but not limited to Black, Indigenous, Latinx Jews, Ethiopian, Sephardic, and Mizrahi Jews.
• Experience holding and navigating a diverse community around lines of difference.
• Experience organizing a caucus space preferred (professional or otherwise).
• Experience working to address the climate crisis and knowledge of Jewish communal spaces preferred (professional or otherwise).
• Our ideal candidate will have flexibility to attend some of our regular staff meetings that happen during the traditional workday, as well as regular evening and weekend meetings and events for the caucus.

About Dayenu: A Jewish Call to Climate Action

Dayenu is building a movement of American Jews confronting the climate crisis with spiritual audacity and bold political action. We mobilize Jewish support for climate solutions, build our collective power, and raise up a spiritual, religious, and moral voice in the national and global movements confronting the climate crisis. We care deeply about equity and justice in our world and about the future we create for our children and future generations. We believe that together, drawing from our Jewish tradition, experience, and faith, we have the power to create real and lasting change.

We focus on three main areas of work: Bold action to advance comprehensive climate policy and ensure a just transition away from fossil fuels; spiritual adaptation that helps people confront the reality of the climate crisis and grapple with the deep spiritual and existential questions it raises; and movement-building.

Through a growing network of Dayenu Circles across the country and partnerships with Jewish communal institutions and multifaith and secular organizations, we're gathering, training, and taking collective action to advance systemic solutions to the climate crisis, at the scale that science and justice demand.

Dayenu is an equal opportunity employer, and we are committed to racial equity and accessibility. Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews, Black and Indigenous people, people of color, people with disabilities, and LGBTQIA people are strongly encouraged to apply. We know historically that women and people of color don't apply to jobs unless they meet 100% of the qualifications. We encourage you to apply if you think you might be a good fit even if you don't meet 100% of the listed requirements.

Dayenu does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, sex, age, gender identity or expression, or other status protected by applicable law.