Young Adult Programs Manager

Urban Adamah is an educational farm and community center in Berkeley, California that integrates the practices of Jewish tradition, mindfulness, sustainable agriculture, and social justice to build loving, just, and sustainable communities. We provide training programs, educational workshops, and community celebrations for more than 10,000 visitors annually.

About The Role

The Young Adult Programs Manager will manage and oversee Young Adult programs, including but not limited to the Fellowship, Alternative Spring Break, Alumni Relations and Young Adult Retreats throughout the year. The Young Adult Programs Manager is supervised by the Educational Programs Director.

The ideal candidate for this role will be passionate about working with young adults, enjoys group facilitation and relationship building, brings knowledge and experience to creating rich Jewish and educational experiences, and is excited to think about how to connect young adults to the farm, to earth-based Jewish tradition, and to each other.

RESPONSIBILITIES

FELLOWSHIP

The Urban Adamah Fellowship is a residential immersion program for young adults that integrates Jewish living and learning with sustainable agriculture and community building. The Young Adult Programs Manager has the overall responsibility for ensuring the vibrancy and thriving of the Fellowship and fellows, including but not limited to:

Curriculum, Teaching & Scheduling:

• Learn the existing Fellowship model and curriculum and be prepared to execute on it for the Fall 2025 Fellowship at the direction of the Educational Programs Director. Following the Fall 2025 Fellowship, propose to the Educational Programs Director future curricular development and innovation
• Teach and facilitate 25% – 50% of the Fellowship curriculum
• Manage the schedule for the remainder of the classes to be taught by a rotating group of guest faculty, including Urban Adamah staff and community partner educators
• Coordinate schedule for participants to cover farm work and chores at the farm manager’s direction
• Forge new partnerships with local educators and steward existing and emerging partnerships at the direction of the Educational Programs Director
• Serve as primary staff liaison for programmatic and logistical issues that arise for the Fellows throughout the Fellowship season

Fellowship Communications:

• Work with our Marketing Manager to manage all Fellowship communications and data in our CRM tool in advance of arrival and throughout the fellowship
• Monitor and manage application and enrollment status

Fellowship Recruitment:

• Develop and manage implementation of a comprehensive recruitment process to ensure full Fellowship classes each season, including general marketing, personal outreach in concert with the Marketing Manager
• Manage the application review process, interview, and select participants with the Educational Programs Director
• Provide website copy to the Marketing Manager to ensure the Fellowship section of the website is up-to-date and accurate

Evaluation:

• Ensure distribution, collection, and review of Fellows’ program evaluations before, during, and after the Fellowship, and provide appropriate follow-up
• Provide feedback from evaluation data with staff, teachers and guest lecturers at the direction of the Educational Programs Director

Mentorship:

• Work with our Marketing Manager to maintain a spreadsheet of alumni activities and positions, updated twice annually
• In partnership with the Educational Programs Director, develop and execute an alumni engagement strategy

ALTERNATIVE SPRING BREAK

Through our Spring Break Programs, we partner with universities, Hillels nationwide, and Adamah on Campus, to offer the best of the The Urban Adamah Fellowship, concentrated into a week. We host 2-3 weeks of Alternative Spring Break Programs annually. Responsibilities include:

• Forge and maintain year-round relationships with University, Hillel and Adamah on Campus staff for purposes of collaboration and recruitment
• Using developed curriculum, design Alternative Spring Break schedule, manage logistics, and coordinate with educator consultants
• Teach 25 – 50% of sessions / classes

SUMMER SPECIALISTS PROGRAM

Camp Urban Adamah hosts a small group of young adults as specialists through our Summer Specialists Program. Specialists live and work on the farm and develop and teach curriculum to our campers. 50% of this program is held by the Young Adult Programs Manager, with 50% held by other staff managing community and youth programs. The Young Adult Manager’s Responsibilities include:

• Coordinate safety trainings with the facilities and operations department
• Manage and facilitate Jewish programming for summer specialists, including participant-led Avodat Lev/Mindfulness routine, Shabbat, and Havdalah practice
• Teach and facilitate weekly sessions on earth-based or other interpretive expressions of Jewish life and values, food systems / social action, and mindfulness, at the direction of the Educational Programs Director

FELLOWSHIP ALUMNI REUNION

The Fellowship Alumni Reunion is a weekend of connecting with Alumni old and new, celebrating Shabbat, singing, relaxing, eating farm-fresh food, and more! This is an opportunity for Alumni to re-live the magic of the Fellowship, and to leave feeling grounded and inspired. Responsibilities include:

• Design retreat schedule and content at the Direction of the Retreats and Rentals Director and Community and Ritual Director
• Teach and facilitate 50% of sessions / classes
• Manage the schedule for the remainder of the classes to be taught by a rotating group of guest faculty, including Urban Adamah staff and community partner educators

OTHER RESPONSIBILITIES

The Young Adult Programs Manager plays an important role ideating, proposing, and implementing new and innovative programming reflecting Urban Adamah’s mission, vision, and values. We are committed to continued programmatic growth and innovation, and the Young Adult Programs Manager has a central role to play in this work.

The Young Adult Programs Manager will also be asked to support the organization in other ways as needed, including representing Urban Adamah in the greater community in a variety of ways.

About You

You are passionate about Urban Adamah’s mission and have the background and experience to design, implement and manage educational and community building opportunities for young adults. You are detail-oriented, and are thorough and diligent in your administrative work. You are excited about young adult engagement and empowerment, and bring a high level of creativity, responsibility, and a collaborative spirit to program design and implementation.

We are open to applicants with varying levels and types of experience, provided that the applicant displays the skills required to successfully execute the job described above. You might be a good fit if you possess/demonstrate the following.

COMPETENCIES AND STRENGTHS

Education & Facilitation

• Possess strong facilitation skills: You have experience and excitement about serving as an educator and facilitator of groups. You are excited to serve as a role model for young adults.

Communication, Collaboration & Customer Service

• Possess strong interpersonal skills: You communicate and collaborate well with a range of colleagues and other stakeholders
• Collaborative: You enjoy learning from and with talented colleagues, and are excited to be part of the success of the whole organization
• Customer service oriented: You appreciate the powerful impact of providing prompt responses to support inquiries, meeting people’s needs proactively, and treating staff and other community members with respect and care

Administrative & Organizational Excellence

• Self-starter: You thrive in environments where you get to hold the operationalization of your assigned workload
• Excellence in organization: You are highly organized, able to track and execute on multiple projects and tasks simultaneously, and are detail oriented
• Prioritizing: You are comfortable maintaining multiple channels of communication (text, email, phone, Slack) and independently managing your workflow to keep projects on track
• Tech-savvy: you are very comfortable with Google Suite, Microsoft Office Suite, Slack, and database systems like Salesforce (additional tech savvy is a bonus)

Strategy & Problem Solving

• Adept at planning: You think ahead and can plan for projects or tasks several months in advance
• Problem solver: You enjoy problem solving, seeing it as an opportunity to connect with and support others and the organization
• Analytical: You are a critical thinker with a high level of analytical/interpretive thinking and problem-solving skills.

Self-Awareness & Partnership

• Ownership: You take broad responsibility for your work and approach tasks and priorities with a critical mindset
• Openness: You regularly seek, incorporate, and share new information and feedback
• Commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion: you value the diversity of insight, perspective, and experience brought by people from diverse backgrounds.

EXPERIENCES THAT COULD LEAD TO YOUR SUCCESS

• Strong knowledge base around, and experience facilitating/educating others in, earth-based or other interpretive expressions of Jewish life and values, food systems / social action, and/or mindfulness
• Experience in creating spaces to empower and educate of young adults
• Experience in Jewish, outdoor experiential education, arts education, theater, music, expressive arts
• Experience in creative facilitation

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

The physical demands listed below are representative of those that must be met by an employee in this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable people with disabilities:

• Typing, writing, reading, hearing, and speaking
• Standing and walking for several hours, as well as sitting, squatting, crawling, climbing, and lifting up to 30 lbs