Senior Associate Director, Jewish Resilience

ADL • New York, NY

5d • Hybrid

About The Position

ADL is evolving a national effort focused on strengthening sector-specific capacity to confront antisemitism. A centerpiece of this effort is Hazak: Jewish Venture Accelerator, a new national capacity building program designed to strengthen and scale community-led efforts to fight antisemitism. Hazak is investing in grassroots and early-stage organizations through hands-on tools, expert training, ADL’s networks and a peer learning community .
Primary Function: The Senior Associate Director, Jewish Resilience supports the design, execution and growth of ADL's sector-specific, community-based capacity-building work. The S enio r Associate Director will focus primarily on operationalizing and advancing Hazak, owning key workstreams that shape the accelerator's strategy, programming and participant experience. T his position may take on expanded responsibilities across the Jewish Resilience portfolio, including other cohort-based or sector-based initiatives as priorities evolve.

Requirements

• Experience working directly with community partners or clients, providing responsive support, building relationships and managing multiple requests with professionalism.
• Strong interpersonal acumen; ability to build trust quickly with community-based leaders and to work collaboratively on a small team with diverse skills, backgrounds and working styles.
• Strong organizational and project management skills; able to manage participant communications, scheduling, tracking and documentation with attention to detail and follow through.
• Skilled at convening and connecting people; able to match participant needs with ADL experts, tools and networks and to strengthen peer learning and alumni connections.
• Able to define and track metrics and evaluate organizational capacity improvements and program outcomes, using dashboards, feedback loops and basic data tools.
• Skilled at navigating inter-organizational and intra-communal dynamics; able to broker collaboration with distributed leadership models and diverse community structures.
• Comfort pivoting when something is not working and staying nimble as priorities evolve.
• Committed to building a culture where everyone thrives.
• Demonstrated self-starter with a consistently positive, solutions-minded approach; takes initiative, owns workstreams and follows through.
• Collaborative team player, creative and innovative; agile and adaptable; comfortable testing approaches, moving quickly, scrapping what does not work and resetting priorities in a fast-paced environment with competing demands.
• Results-oriented problem solver with resilience under pressure and strong judgment in ambiguous situations.
• Dedicated to empowerment-based approaches that prioritize local ownership and authenticity.
• Comfort with fast-paced work and with managing multiple priorities across cohorts and partners.
• Energized by ADL’s mission and work.
• Significant progressively responsible experience in consulting, program coordination, project management or partner engagement within a nonprofit, civic, community- based or communal organization.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity with sectors where antisemitism has surfaced (e.g., education, healthcare, labor, professional associations) and or experience with Jewish identity-based advocacy, coalition work or community organizing, preferred.
• Experience supporting volunteer leadership structures and high-level stakeholder relationships, preferred.

Responsibilities

• Support selection and recruitment of grassroots groups and early-stage community-based organizations into Hazak and other capacity-building efforts that set clear expectations, goals and commitments for participation.
• Steward Hazak participants through high-touch 1:1 coaching, office hours and on-demand support to strengthen their ability to fight antisemitism.
• Support participants in responding to incidents of antisemitism, and connect to ADL guidance and expertise to accelerate effective responses.
• Conduct strategic planning for Hazak programming and the rest of the team, including shaping cohort goals, session priorities, sequencing and success measures.
• Apply, adapt and build sector-based tools, templates and playbooks that participants can use in their communities.
• Refine Hazak curriculum to ensure programming is relevant, practical and value-add.
• Develop and update group-learning content, designed for local implementation.
• Serve as a connector across ADL by coordinating with cross-functional teams to align experts, resources and on-demand support for Hazak participants.
• Contribute to continuous improvement by generating, testing and iterating new program ideas.
• Engage with advisory groups, mentor councils and volunteer leadership structures providing practical guidance to participating organizations.
• Represent ADL at partner events, sector convenings and conferences to build trust, surface insights and elevate best practices related to community-based capacity building to fight antisemitism.
• Monitor developments across priority sectors and provide leadership with actionable intelligence on emergent antisemitism trends.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level