Jewish Youth Climate Movement (JYCM) West Coast Coordinator

Reports to: JYCM Manager

Compensation: $22/hour for approximately 15 hours per week.

Start date: Early February

The JYCM West Coast Coordinator must live on the West Coast of the U.S., with preference for a candidate living in Los Angeles/Southern California or the Bay Area.

About JYCM:

Adamah is building a joyful and resilient generation of leaders through Jewish environmental education, climate action, and community building. The Jewish Youth Climate Movement (JYCM) is building a Gen Z-led movement dedicated to combating climate change and environmental injustice from a Jewish lens. Our goal is to make taking collective action towards climate justice a central, defining feature of what it means to be Jewish over the next decade, empowering the next generation of Jewish youth to be leaders in our fight to build a sustainable and equitable world for all.

For more information, visit: adamah.org/jycm.

Roles and Responsibilities

The JYCM West Coast Coordinator facilitates network- and community-building opportunities for kvutzot (local chapters) on the West Coast and provides resources about climate education, action, and organizing to affiliated Jewish institutions and organizations. Key responsibilities will include supporting the establishment of new kvutzot and the growth of existing ones on the West Coast, including developing JYCM Regional Councils in 1-2 cities (likely LA and the Bay Area), and coordinating the regional gatherings and events organized by kvutzot locally. 

The JYCM West Coast Coordinator works closely with the JYCM staff team. The West Coast Coordinator will work closely with partner organizations in California and across the West Coast to support network-wide events, retreats, activities, programming, and engage in thought-partnership and community building efforts. There will be opportunities to work closely with our Adamah on Campus staff team and college campus chapters, particularly supporting campus work and students located in your region, and working with key partner organizations and Adamah’s Jewish Climate Leadership Coalition, to ensure synergy and collaboration across projects.

Support the activities and organizing of existing West Coast chapters of JYCM (known as “kvutzot”)

• Create and implement systems to support kvutzot as they grow, develop, and troubleshoot.
  • Collaborate with the JYCM Manager and kvutzah staff team to design these systems and other strategic directions for kvutzah organizing.
• Hold seasonal one on one meetings with kvutzah leaders and communicate regularly with kvutzah leaders via email and text message on a monthly basis.
• Support teens to plan and run meetings, events, direct actions, and components of JYCM national campaigns, both among their individual kvutzot and across multiple kvutzot in a city/region.
• Identify potential kvutzah members, track members, and maintain engagement with members.
• Support each kvutzah in centering equity and inclusion.
• Encourage kvutzah members to share pictures of activities they are carrying out, write blog posts about their work, and engage with JYCM’s national social media to further develop our digital organizing practices and PR.

Grow JYCM’s national network of kvutzot

• Hold recruitment one on one meetings with teens or groups who indicate interest in starting kvutzot. If they decide they would like to, closely support them in the creation of a kvutzah in their Jewish community. This includes helping teens to:
  • Recruit other kvutzah leaders.
  • Recruit kvutzah members.
  • Find an adult mentor.
  • Make a plan to launch their kvutzah.
• Work closely with any West Coast-based National Leadership Board members and Regional Council members who have indicated interest in starting kvutzot in their communities.
• Onboard new kvutzot to JYCM’s theory of change and strategy. Ensure that new kvutzot have engaged with our onboarding training content.
• Provide resources about climate education, action, and organizing to affiliated Jewish institutions and organizations, for both programmatic partnership and seeding new kvutzot.

Coordinate JYCM engagement at the regional level

• Oversee the launch and activity of 1-2 JYCM Regional Councils (in LA and the Bay Area), including staffing meetings and supporting local social or Jewish holiday events, direct actions, trainings, and campaign projects.
• Coordinate kvutzahled efforts to organize network- and community-building opportunities (including gatherings and actions) across
• the West Coast.
• Work closely with partner organizations on the West Coast to organize events, retreats, activities, programming, and community building efforts.
• Attend in-personal regional events on the West Coast (as feasible), and if possible, travel a few times per year to attend national events/retreats.
• Center equity and inclusion in all activities.

Collaborate across Adamah teams/departments and offer administrative support

• Provide ad hoc thought partnership and logistical support for national JYCM programs and projects (such as the annual Kvutzah Leaders Fellowship), as relevant.
• Attend or facilitate consistent meetings, including:
  • Weekly 30-45 minute check-in sessions with supervisor to touch base on how things are going; space for questions and concerns
  • 45 minute biweekly strategy call with JYCM Manager and the JYCM kvutzah staff team
  • 1 hour monthly Adamah Youth Empowerment Team staff huddles
  • 90 minute monthly Adamah All Staff meetings
  • 1 hour twice monthly meetings each for 1-2 teen JYCM Regional Councils
• Work closely with our Adamah on Campus staff team and college campus chapters, particularly supporting national campus work and students.
• Liaise with Adamah’s Jewish Climate Leadership Coalition to ensure synergy and collaboration across projects.
• Consistently log and maintain data pertaining to kvutzot in Salesforce.

Helpful prior skills and experience include:

• Experience working with youth as an educator, counselor, organizing coach, or youth advisor.
• Organizing experience and movement-building skills, such as in the climate movement or other social justice spheres.
• Recruitment and base-building knowledge a plus.
• Strong communication and teamwork abilities.
• Strong administration and Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft SharePoint, and Salesforce experience.
• Ability to multitask and hold multiple projects at once.
• Self-starter, ability to self-motivate and work on solo projects as needed.
• Ability to work effectively in a primarily remote work environment.
• Willingness to travel across your city/area, as well as across the West Coast and nationally multiple times per year (with travel costs covered by Adamah).
• Willingness to work occasional weeknights and weekends.
• Strong attention to detail as well as ability to hold a big-picture view.
• Commitment to deadlines and task completion.
• Retreat, conference, or event planning and coordination a plus.

To Apply

In order to be considered, please submit a resume and one-page cover letter to the job application portal.

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