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Job Summary: The Convening Director will drive the format and tone of the event by taking a leadership role in the curation, programming, general event management, and marketing of the Trans Jews Are Here Convening hosted by Congregation Beit Simchat Torah (CBST) with Keshet.

Essential Functions: The Convening Director will be a visible leader of the convening. The Convening Director will be responsible for and collaborate on programming, managing special guest speakers, artists, and convening participants, and day-of coordination throughout the 3-day convening. This position will also play a role in public relations, marketing, and promotion.

Core Competencies:

The ideal candidate will have:

A passionate and deep commitment to social justice work, specifically within the transgender and non-binary Jewish community.

An awareness of contemporary LGBTQ Jewish life and the issues that these communities are faced with today.

A high level of cultural competency with regards to the intersections of race, religion, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, socioeconomics, physical and mental illness, and disability.

The ideal candidate will be:

An excellent communicator, with the ability to express themselves clearly, thoughtfully, and efficiently.

A pro-active leader, with the ability to work independently, take initiative, and maintain follow-through on completing tasks.

Responsibilities Include:

Leading and collaborating with CBST and Keshet staff on programming, marketing, promotion, and public relations.

Communicating with speakers, artists, and convening participants to ensure needs are met and information is disseminated.

Day-of event management coordination. Working with CBST Admin and Facilities team to ensure programming is executed seamlessly.

Attention to Detail: Consistently attends to the many small pieces which must be assembled into an organized whole; follows up on missing or out of balance items; resolves unanswered questions needed to address a problem; keeps the larger picture in mind while tending to the smallest of details.

Integrity and Trust: Is seen as trustworthy by others; practices direct, honest and transparent communication; keeps confidences; admits mistakes; doesn’t operate with hidden agendas; responds to situations with constancy and reliability.

Interpersonal Skills: Establishes good working relationships with all others who are relevant to the completion of work; builds appropriate rapport; considers the impact of his/her/their actions on others; uses diplomacy and tact; is approachable; avoids communication triangles.

Time and Resource Management: Is able and willing to focus time on tasks that contribute to organizational goals; Uses time effectively and efficiently; values time and respects the time of others; concentrates his/her/their efforts on the most important priorities; can appropriately balance priorities.

Jewishly Literate

Creativity and Innovation: Generates new ideas, makes new connections among existing ideas to create fresh approaches, takes acceptable risks, learns from mistakes, has good judgment.

Sense of Humor: Is able to engage with humor.

Physical Requirements: There is an aspect of day-of coordination which will require the Convening Director to be actively moving around the building most of the day. Also note that the Saturday and Sunday of the convening are long hours, from as earlier as 7am to as late as 11pm (on Saturday).

Minimum Qualifications: 3 – 5 years of related work experience.

Performance Goals:

Create a robust schedule of programming for all three days of the convening, in consultation with convening Co-Chairs and CBST staff to ensure authenticity and quality of content.

Work to engage public relations with a thoughtful strategy that helps to honor the mission and intention of the convening, while promoting positive awareness of it.

Connect with speakers, attendees, and convening participants in a deep and productive way that ensures all parties are engaging with the convening in a meaningful way.