Events Manager

Events Manager

Position Summary:

The TBS Events Manager is an integral member of the Administrative Team who works closely with TBS member families to organize and oversee meaningful events, particularly around B. Mitzvah celebrations. Coordinating rentals and supporting families for more than 60 events per year, the Events Manager supervises event staff, works closely with vendors, and ensures an excellent planning and execution experience for families hosting events in our spaces. In addition, the Events Manager oversees special projects, as assigned, associated with major community-centered events, including: High Holy Day (Jewish New Year) programming, the TBS Annual Gala, and in-house events around special occasions or holidays.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Manage space rentals, serving as the main point of contact, marketing, evaluating, tracking use and managing both host family and vendor relationships, and coordinating all internal Temple Beth Shalom logistics with staff.
  • Execute rental agreements with families Work with each family and vendors to plan and coordinate celebration details including, but not limited to: floor plans, event materials (such as centerpieces and sign-in boards), equipment rentals, and supply deliveries.
  • Ensure TBS spaces are prepared for an event and cleaned/organized following the event.
  • Manage and support the member and guest experience and ensure that it is in alignment with the mission and culture of the TBS community.
  • Update systems, databases, and working documents to keep consistent and organized records.
  • Meet with prospective and current members, clients and vendors.
  • Build the logistics of celebration deliveries, storage and pickup.
  • Oversee private event calendaring, evaluating, and monitoring of space usage.
  • Manage key event vendor relationships, including caterers, DJs, party planners, photographers, and furniture/equipment vendors.
  • Ensure that TBS events meet all legal and hospitality industry standards.
  • Regularly serve as Event Host for function and supervise team of event hosts.
  • Hire, supervise and coordinate event staffing including: security, parking lot staff, accommodators, event hosts, and volunteers to create a cohesive and successful event and team.
  • Oversee special projects, as assigned, associated with major community-centered events, including: High Holy Day (Jewish New Year) programming, the TBS Annual Gala, and in-house events around special occasions or holidays.
  • Research, volunteer leadership facilitation, timeline development, rentals, vendor coordination, event experience design, staff management, and coordination of all relevant stakeholders.

Qualifications:

  • 3-5 years in event planning, customer service, or relevant field
  • Outstanding hospitality skills – able to seamlessly reflect the values of our congregation in word and deed
  • Takes great joy in working with families anticipating a joyful life moment
  • Superior organization and communication skills
  • Strong ability to problem-solve, prioritize, and multi-task in a timely manner
  • Highly professional, polished, responsible, and detail oriented
  • Ability to work independently and maintain a positive, calm attitude, even under pressure
  • Computer literacy and desire to learn new software platforms
  • Knowledge of Jewish community and type of events is not required but a plus. A willingness to learn is required
  • TIPS Certification preferred

Position:

This is a Full Time position with required hours on Saturdays and evenings.
Job Type: Full-time, Exempt
Salary: $75,000 – $82,000 annually

Typical schedule Tuesday-Saturday

Work Location: In person

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Mayim Tamid Jewish Learning Guide

Mayim Tamid Jewish Learning Guide (JLG)

ABOUT MAYIM AND MAYIM TAMID

Mayim is TBS’s elementary Jewish learning program for children in grades K-4 and their families. It is our version of what is often called “religious school” in other communities, but it is a completely different approach to learning in a congregational setting. Our approach is built on the core values of Deep Learning and Deep Relationships and includes weekly learning sessions and integrated opportunities for family engagement and strong relationship building. Mayim offers a distinctive thematic curriculum, through which children and educators partner to investigate big questions and engage in hands-on learning and long-term projects. Children also explore Jewish holidays and Hebrew, and the whole community participates in joyful t’filah (prayer and song) each week. 

Mayim Tamid (“Mayim Always”) is a multi-day program for children in grades K-4, which combines the after school care found in many extended day programs with the rich Jewish learning and community building found in our Mayim program. Each day, children enjoy playground time, homework time, healthy snack, Hebrew and Jewish learning, prayer and song, and free play. In Mayim Tamid, children experience Jewish life and cycles in real time, learning, celebrating and playing together in an environment that nurtures each child on their individual path. Children build deep relationships with their faculty, TBS rabbis and professional staff, and each other in a setting that helps children feel like the temple is their second home. Learn more at tbslearning.org.

ABOUT THE ROLE

This is not a typical “religious school teacher” position! As a JLG…

You will create opportunities for deep learning. JLGs plan thematic, project-based curricula and experiential lessons that are grounded in child development and guided by Jewish tradition. You will help children grapple with high-interest questions that invite them to participate in constructing their own learning.

You will foster deep relationships and cultivate a sense of belonging. JLGs work with small groups of children, creating an intimate setting for relationship building. With each group, you will engage in intentional community building activities that allow children to get to know one another and feel at home in our community.

You will be part of a team. JLGs work in small grade-level teams, supported by a curriculum coach, during paid time for planning and preparation each week. Together, your team will learn content on an adult level, craft curriculum, plan lessons, and reflect on the learning process.

You will form relationships with families. JLGs plan and participate in monthly Jewish Connection Experiences with children and their families outside of regular learning times. You will have opportunities to celebrate Shabbat and holidays together and to include parents in their children’s Jewish learning. You will send weekly email updates to families, thereby opening communication channels and creating additional opportunities for relationship building.

You will learn and grow as an educator. JLGs have paid time set aside for professional development. You will be challenged to develop your craft through group learning sessions, small group explorations, peer observation and feedback, and individual growth plans developed with your supervisor.

You will be treated as the professional you are. JLGs are full-time salaried employees and eligible for all benefits. You will be immersed and invested in one community, without having to worry about piecing together multiple teaching jobs.

ABOUT YOU

If the following statements describe you, you are a great fit for this role!

You love children and have working knowledge of child development. You are joyful, present, and relaxed with children. You are curious about the child’s perspective and enjoy partnering with children to promote learning. You effectively manage groups of children, and you have meaningful interactions that make each child feel like a valued member of the group.

Your teaching approach is rooted in experience. You have worked with elementary age children in experiential settings, such as overnight or day camp, afterschool programs, and arts-based environments. You value and understand how learning happens in non-school settings, and you create rich learning environments that inspire curiosity and wonder.

You resonate deeply with Temple Beth Shalom’s mission and values. You are motivated and inspired to be part of a warm, vibrant, and diverse Jewish community and close-knit, hard-working professional team. 

You are guided by Jewish values and grounded in Jewish tradition. You are a role model for children and their families through living and making explicit your Jewish values. You eagerly engage with Jewish practice, ritual, prayer, and holidays. You inspire children to develop relationships with Judaism that are ever evolving and growing. 

You are committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. You model anti-bias practices and cultural sensitivity. You are excited to be part of a community that is diverse by age, family make-up, religious background, ethnicity, gender identity, and sexual orientation. You embrace each person as having been created b’tzelem Elohim (in the image of God), and you work hard to create environments where every learner can thrive. 

You are an excellent collaborator and team player. You are eager to partner with and learn from fellow educators. You thrive in an environment that values learning, relationships, collaboration, and joy. You are flexible, adaptive, authentic, confident, and humble. 

You are an effective communicator and relationship builder. You easily develop rapport and inspire trust. You have a warm, energetic, and authentic personality that translates to building lasting relationships. You demonstrate deep listening in your interactions with others and respond in a way that honors each person. 

You are a reflective, emotionally intelligent learner. You are self-aware and seek to learn and refine your skills. You are eager for feedback and engage in your own ongoing reflective practices. You recognize your own emotions and are able to engage with them in healthy ways.

You are able to participate actively in children’s learning. Our hands-on, active approach to learning includes frequent reaching, stooping, sitting on the floor, bending, occasional lifting and carrying, and supervising children’s active play.

SALARY AND BENEFITS

We are proud to have a transparent and equitable faculty compensation model that begins with a base salary ($48,500 for 1.0 FTE) and includes steps to account for experience, education, longevity, and performance. See our compensation model. Full-time JLGs are eligible for all benefits, including medical insurance, dental insurance, retirement account, flexible spending account, and more.

TO APPLY

Please email a cover letter and resume to Liron Riess, Director of Mayim Tamid, at lriess@tbsneedham.org. When you submit your application, please indicate if you are looking for part-time or full-time work.

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Executive Director

Executive Director

WHAT YOU’LL DO

At a time of tremendous growth and opportunity, TBS seeks an Executive Director to provide strategic oversight of key functional areas of the congregation. This position will join our Senior Leadership Team, serve as a trusted partner to clergy, staff, lay leaders, volunteers and members, and advance TBS’ mission to provide a deep sense of belonging to our congregation and commitment to one another. This is a highly visible role that touches all facets of temple life. Specifically, the Executive Director will:

Ensure a powerful Jewish community experience through operational excellence and member engagement

  • Provide strategic leadership and hands-on management of key functional areas: office administration, finance, human resources, technology, communications, development, events, safety & security, facilities, and membership.
  • Supervise, coach, and mentor a team of direct reports inclusive of an Office Administrator, Fractional Chief Financial Officer, Director of People & Culture, IT Systems Administrator, Communications & Program Manager, Associate Director of Philanthropy, Kitchen Manager, Events Manager, and Facilities Manager.
  • Proactively anticipate and address operational challenges and needs to better support congregational growth, new capital projects, and other strategic initiatives.
  • Serve as primary point person for membership, working collaboratively with staff and lay leaders, ensuring that prospective and new members have a positive overall membership experience.
  • In partnership with senior leadership, finance team, and finance committee, serve as a thought partner for the annual budgeting process.
  • In partnership with the Director of People & Culture, support the smooth delivery of day-to-day HR.
  • In partnership with the Facilities Manager, ensure the sound management of building maintenance, safety, and security.
  • Plan and oversee the logistics for the High Holy Days, in conjunction with staff and lay leaders, ensuring a seamless and joyful experience for the community. For all observances, support the activities of the Welcome Corps (staff and volunteers) and technology team.
  • Working cross-functionally, oversee the management and usage of member database, inclusive of maintaining accurate information and leveraging data to identify leadership and engagement opportunities for members.
  • Liaise with lay leader led membership engagement committee, building/security committee, community affinity groups demonstrating responsiveness to lay leaders’ requests and providing support or leadership where needed.
  • Support the planning and execution of Board of Trustees and Leadership Council Meetings.

Serve as a senior leader, collaborative colleague and champion for TBS’ mission, vision, and values

  • As a member of the senior management team, contribute to guiding overall organizational strategic direction, decision-making, prioritization, and goals.
  • Serve as a thought partner to senior leaders and drive cross-functional coordination with all aspects of temple life e.g. education, engagement, worship.
  • Wear multiple hats as a part of a fast-paced, busy organization, supporting the work of others and taking on new projects/tasks as needed and keeping an eye on the broader needs of the community.
  • Foster a warm and caring environment so that congregants, prospective members, lay leaders, volunteers, and staff feel welcomed, respected, nurtured, and appreciated.

WHO YOU ARE

  • You resonate deeply with Temple Beth Shalom’s mission and values. You are motivated and inspired to be part of a warm, vibrant, and diverse Jewish community and close-knit, hard-working professional team. You thrive in a fast-moving environment that values learning, relationships, collaboration, and joy.
  • You bring 15+ years of professional experience, including 5+ in a senior leadership role, at a growing organization. You possess business acumen and operations know-how to ensure sound oversight of functional areas (e.g., finance, operations, facilities, human resources, communications) that keep an organization running. Leadership experience gained in a nonprofit, school, camp, membership organization, or comparable setting is a plus.
  • You are a compassionate and attentive staff manager who leverages individuals’ strengths and fosters collaboration. You have experience in recruiting and hiring talent, building strong teams, and coaching and mentoring direct and indirect reports for high performance and accountability. You promote the growth and development of individual staff through empowering, advocating, and differentiating support.
  • You are an outstanding communicator and relationship builder who develops rapport easily and inspires trust. You have a warm, energetic, and authentic personality that translates to building lasting relationships both internally and externally (i.e., staff, lay leaders, volunteers, members, visitors.) You demonstrate deep listening and high emotional intelligence in your interactions with others.
  • You possess exceptional executive functioning skills and the ability to lead and prioritize multiple workstreams. You bring experience managing large and complex projects, with a demonstrated ability to coach others in how to take a project from start to finish. You are detail oriented, highly organized and translate strategic plans into effective work streams and tactics. You create structures, processes, and procedures that help organizations do their best work.
  • You are an unflappable problem solver, who calmly and confidently navigates challenges. You exercise good judgment and are able to make decisions both independently and collaboratively. You are able to shift gears quickly, assess what needs to be done, and bring a “get it done” attitude, with the ability to stay focused and nimble in a dynamic environment.
  • You are a positive force for organizational growth, change, and excellence. You embrace and lead through change, modeling adaptability and a high level of awareness of how change impacts others. You possess a sense of personal accountability for results and hold others to high standards. You are energized by what’s possible while working on what needs to be done today.

WORK LOCATION AND HOURS

This position works onsite at Temple Beth Shalom in Needham, MA. Hours are typically 9am-5pm, with some evening, weekend, and holiday responsibilities. The temple is conveniently accessible from Route 95/128 or the MBTA commuter rail.    

SALARY AND BENEFITS

The salary range for this position is $175,000 – $200,000, along with a generous benefits package that includes medical insurance, dental insurance, flexible spending account, medical supplement plan, 4 weeks vacation. For those interested, employees receive a free membership to the synagogue. Employees receive a discount off TBS school tuition.

TO APPLY

If this opportunity speaks to you, please apply here with your 1) a thoughtful cover letter that describes your interest in this particular position and 2) your resume. Please address your cover letter to Jay Perlman, Senior Rabbi. We review applications on a rolling basis and strive to get back to applicants within two weeks.

Temple Beth Shalom has retained DH Search to lead the search for an Executive Director. DH Search partners with mission-driven organizations to hire the people they need to create a more just and equitable world. Learn more at www.dhsearch.net.

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Children’s Center Teacher

Children's Center Teacher

OVERVIEW

Teachers play a key role, setting the tone by valuing each child and family as individuals. By modeling responsibility, welcoming, and caring, teachers foster children’s Jewish identity. TBS Children’s Center teachers have the educational qualifications, dispositions, knowledge, dedication to learning, and professional commitment necessary to promote children and their families as they learn and develop. Teachers work together with their teaching team to develop, implement, and evaluate the classroom pedagogy, to provide a quality educational program reflecting the goals and values of the school. Teachers monitor the development and learning of the children and partner with families in sharing this information. Teachers also supervise and provide guidance to substitutes and classroom volunteers.

WHAT MAKES YOU GREAT FOR THIS ROLE

The following statements feel like they were written to describe you:

  • Teaching young children brings you joy. You value and promote children’s play and are curious about the child’s perspective. You look forward to active days of creativity and learning.
  • You understand child guidance in a developmental context and are alert to the learning process for each child. Your working knowledge of the growth and development of young children brings an ability to utilize this information in the classroom
  • You ask for help, accept suggestions, and offer guidance to others.
  • Communication with families is important to you and you seek to teach adults as well as children. You are committed to being a positive source of guidance for children and families.
  • Flexible by nature, you listen to children, adapting the curriculum to their needs and interests. You adapt your teaching style to the needs of the school as a community system.
  • You are diligent about health and safety, offering emotional and physical comfort and caring to your young students.
  • Learning is in your nature and you are a lifelong learner yourself, taking time for regular reflection and self-examination. You seek to expand your perspective and the perspectives of others.
  • You are able to participate actively in children’s learning. Our hands-on, active approach to learning includes frequent reaching, stooping, sitting on the floor, bending, occasional lifting and carrying, and supervising children’s active play.
  • You have a teaching certificate from the Department of Early Education or the credentials needed to obtain one.

COMPENSATION

Our transparent and equitable faculty compensation model includes steps to account for experience, education, longevity, and performance.

Teacher 1 FTE

  • (52 wks, 40 hrs)

Base Salary*

  • $48,000 for Novice Teacher
  • $50,000 for Teacher

Bachelor’s Degree

  • $2,000

Masters Degree in Education or Closely Related Field

  • $1,000

Years of Experience Prior to TBS (per year, up to 7 years transfer)

  • $500 per year

Milestone Levels (after completing years 2, 5, 8, 11, 14)

  • $1,500 per level

Master Teacher designation**

  • $2,500

6:15pm Bonus (teaching five days/week until 6:15pm)

  • $2,000

*The base salary is for Full Time Equivalent (FTE), which is 40 hours per week, 52 weeks per year. This is adjusted proportionally based on each educator’s schedule. For example, if your schedule is 30 hours per week, 52 weeks per year, your position would be .75 FTE and your base salary would be 75% of the listed base salary. Additional compensation for education and experience are also adjusted based on your FTE. For example, if you have a Master’s degree and you work .75 FTE, you would receive $750, which is 75% of the $1,000 listed.

**The Master Teacher designation recognizes superior performance with a financial reward. A Master Teacher is an educator who demonstrates consistent excellence in five different categories of practice. The Master Teacher Rubric outlines the criteria for earning the designation. Generally, it requires at least three years of teaching at TBS to be eligible for the Master Teacher designation.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

Ability to actively participate in children’s play and care including frequent reaching, running, and sitting on the floor and in small chairs. Hearing and speaking to exchange information in person and by phone; seeing to read and prepare documents, monitor children for safety, and perform assigned duties; sitting or standing for extended periods of time; dexterity of hands and fingers to operate tools and equipment; kneeling, stooping, bending at the waist, and reaching overhead, above the shoulders and horizontally, to retrieve and store supplies; occasionally lifting moderate weight objects including children.

TO APPLY

Email us at jobs@tbsneedham.org.

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