Location and Job Title:

Director for Community and Culture
Shalom Orlando Inc
851 N Maitland Ave.
Maitland, FL 32751

Principal Responsibilities:

To apply, please send resume and cover letter to Laura Abramson at laura.abramson@shalomorlando.org

Shalom Orlando is the newly merged Roth Family JCC and Jewish Federation of Greater Orlando. The Program Director is the lead professional charged with visioning and creating new Shalom Orlando programs to impact the Central Florida Jewish community. These programs may occur both inside The Roth Family JCC and throughout the Central Florida community. Located in Maitland, FL, Shalom Orlando is the center of Jewish life in Central Florida. This position requires the candidate to think, dream, and supervise staff as well as understand budgeting as we look to create the community organization for the next 50 years.

Minimum Qualifications:

Reporting to the Senior Director of Operations, the Director for Community and Culture serves as the visionary and implementor for new Shalom Orlando programs.

This is a hands-on position with supervision of program department directors who service the larger community outside the Jewish community campus, large program events. This includes:

The Bernard and Samra Gotlib Family Hanukkah, Yom Ha'atzmaut, and Purim celebrations, and includes the creation of new opportunities throughout Central Florida. Additionally, this position includes monitoring of each department's fiscal operations, financial resource development, and lay/volunteer leadership roles. The Director for Community and Culture will have the opportunity to dream and create. This position is the key professional working with the program committee and does have operational oversight. The ideal candidate will be dynamic, high-energy, organized, have high interpersonal skills, experience managing multiple functions and departments, and a high level of creativity.

Essential Responsibilities

• Have a vision for the programmatic needs of Shalom Orlando and the Orlando Jewish community to create a Jewish organization meeting the current and future needs of the community.
• Oversee staff from departments and programs that are customer facing and operational:
• Large Community events such as the Bernard and Samra Gotlib Hanukkah, Purim and Yom Ha'atzmaut Festivals
• Family Engagement
• PJ Library
• Young adult programming
• Programming for people in their 30s and 40s
• Programming around the larger Central Florida Community
• Fiscal management which includes but is not limited to crafting balanced or revenue positive budgets, meet all budgeting ensure revenue generated by departments meets or exceeds budget, and other deadlines, and monitoring department budgets and reviewing the P/L statements of the departments that they supervise.
• Ensure the assigned personnel under their supervision are able to accomplish the goals assigned to them and perform both mid-year and annual evaluations of all direct reports.
• Weekly supervisory meetings with assigned personnel to ensure the goals are being met and to proactively address issues and challenges the assigned personnel may not see or foresee.
• Donor relations - being an active leader in the solicitation and stewardship process. Maintain existing relationships and identify new donors for programs.
• Recruitment of staff as assigned.
• Provide excellent customer service.
• Work proactively and collaboratively with all Shalom Orlando staff and departments.
• Relationship building with local organizations.
• Supports all Shalom Orlando special events.
• Other duties and special projects as assigned.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• The Director for Community and Culture will supervise Program Department Directors as assigned.
• Supervision includes and is not limited to professional growth, personal growth, program design, program implementation, budget creation, monthly financial accountability, annual financial accountability.

QUALIFICATIONS

Required Qualifications

• Creativity and vision
• Extensive experience and a track record of success in a related field
• Proven ability to effectively collaborate with internal team, cross-functional team, and external parties in a rapidly growing environment
• Budgetary skills and experience
• Ability to build teams and develop people
• Strong fundraising experience; annual campaign, capital campaign, sponsorships and stewardship
• Demonstrable knowledge of Jewish history, tradition, culture and understanding of the relationship among North American, Israeli and Diaspora Jews.
  • Good judgment in decision making; display initiative, enthusiasm and strong people skills.
  • Flexible, willing to take appropriate risks, and able to adapt to the changing needs of the agency and community.
  • Good organizational skills and follow through
  • Resolve conflict and differences in a positive manner
  • Knowledge of budgeting and revenue generation
  • Strong supervision skills
  • Self-starter
  • Drive results with the ability to prioritize and delegate
  • Demonstrated understanding of the complexity of the volunteer/professional relationship and success managing those relationships
  • Strong interpersonal skills and demonstrated ability to work as a team member
  • Outstanding verbal and written communication skills and the ability to present at public platforms.

Required Attributes and Competencies

PARENTAL LEAVE POLICY:

Shalom Orlando provides leaves of absence without pay to eligible employees for any of the following reasons:

The birth of a child and to care for such child.

The placement of a child with you for adoptions or foster care and to care for the newly placed child.

To care for a spouse, child or parent ("covered family member") with a serious health condition.

Eligible employees are normally granted leave up to a maximum of 12 weeks within a 12-month rolling period measured backward from the date of any leave usage.

If the initial period of approved absence proves insufficient, consideration will be given to a request for an

extension. Extensions will be provided based on operational requirements and business needs. However,

benefits will only be provided for the initial maximum of 12 weeks after which time the employee may apply for benefits continuation under COBRA.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit, stand, walk, bend, and use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools or controls; reach with hands and arms; talk and hear. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds (safety/weight belt provided, if requested). Specific vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus is required.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable

individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The work environment is a typical climate controlled office environment and the noise is usually moderate.

Travel may be required.

Salary Range - $60,000-$70,000

Salary:

$60,000

Agency Information:

The JCC is an equal opportunity employer to all qualified persons without regard to race, creed, color, sex, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental handicap, or veteran status.

Since 1973, The Roth Family Jewish Community Center of Greater Orlando in Maitland has been the center of Jewish life in Central Florida and home to award-winning preschool, after school, summer camp, fitness, sports, arts and community programs.