Community Mobilizer, Brooklyn

Major Responsibilities:

Build and Strengthen Community Relationships: Establish and deepen trusted relationships with synagogues, schools, JCCs, agencies, grassroots groups, communal leaders, and community members across Brooklyn. Proactively engage emerging, underserved, and underrepresented parts of the Jewish community.
Understand and Elevate Community Needs: Develop a strong understanding of the priorities, challenges, and opportunities facing Brooklyn’s diverse Jewish communities. Elevate local perspectives and emerging needs within UJA to help inform broader organizational strategies and responses.
Develop Community Responses: Translate community insights into programs, partnerships, convenings, grants, and other initiatives that respond to local priorities and strengthen Jewish communal life.
Mobilize Participation in UJA Priorities: Engage Brooklyn organizations, leaders, and community members in UJA initiatives, including civic engagement and advocacy efforts, bridge-building programs, volunteer opportunities, Jewish communal activities, and other initiatives that strengthen participation and connection.
Cultivate Intergroup Relationships: Build and strengthen partnerships with faith-based, cultural, civic, and community organizations across Brooklyn, fostering dialogue, collaboration, and mutual support.
Convene Community Stakeholders: Organize listening sessions, roundtables, and collaborative gatherings that bring together diverse sectors of the community to identify priorities, strengthen partnerships, and develop collective responses to emerging needs, with a focus on civic engagement.
Serve as UJA’s Representative: Represent UJA throughout Brooklyn by attending community events, cultivating relationships with organizational leaders, clergy, community leaders, and civic partners, and serving as a trusted connector across the borough.
Lead the Brooklyn Advisory Council: Partner with volunteer leaders to identify priorities, strengthen local networks, and advance strategic initiatives.
Manage Projects and Initiatives: Manage programs, grants, and community initiatives from planning through execution, including budgets, timelines, stakeholder coordination, logistics, internal processes, and follow-through.
Collaborate Across UJA: Work closely with colleagues across UJA to advocate for Brooklyn’s evolving needs, connect communities to broader organizational resources and initiatives, and advance shared priorities.
Respond to Key Moments: Help communities respond to moments of opportunity and challenge by convening stakeholders, coordinating resources, facilitating rapid connections, and supporting locally driven responses to emerging issues.
Strengthen community resilience by supporting local leadership, fostering healthy civic and communal engagement, increasing Jewish visibility, and helping communities build durable relationships within and beyond the Jewish community.

Qualifications and Competencies:

Experience: 5–10 years of relevant professional experience in community organizing, nonprofit leadership, program management, philanthropy, community relations, or a related field.
Knowledge of Brooklyn’s Jewish Community: Familiarity with Brooklyn’s diverse Jewish landscape and the issues affecting local Jewish communities. Existing relationships within Brooklyn are strongly preferred, with preference for candidates who live in or have deep ties to the borough.
Relationship Builder: Exceptional ability to build trust with a wide range of stakeholders, including clergy, nonprofit professionals, grassroots leaders, volunteers, lay leaders, educators, and community members.
Cultural Fluency: Comfortable engaging across the diversity of the Jewish community—including different religious denominations, political perspectives, cultural backgrounds, and levels of affiliation—as well as with leaders from other faith and ethnic communities. Demonstrates curiosity, respect, and the ability to build relationships across differences.
Entrepreneurial Mindset: Naturally curious and proactive. Able to identify opportunities, navigate ambiguity, and turn ideas into action while working within a large, mission-driven organization.
Project Management: Demonstrated success managing complex, multi-stakeholder initiatives from planning through execution, including budgets, timelines, logistics, grants, internal processes, and follow-through.
Communication and Collaboration: Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to facilitate collaboration, align diverse stakeholders around shared goals, and work effectively across departments.
Adaptability and Judgment: Strong judgment, sound decision-making, and the ability to balance competing priorities while responding thoughtfully to emerging community needs.