What are the responsibilities and job description for the Denver NCSY City Director position at NCSY?
Denver NCSY City Director
Position Overview
Who We Are:
NCSY, a program of the Orthodox Union, connects with Jewish teens through innovative, cutting-edge social and recreational programs to develop a positive Jewish identity. NCSY inspires Jewish teens through informal Jewish education, retreats and summer programs. NCSY empowers teens through leadership development and guidance to become passionately committed leaders of the Jewish community and instruments for positive change and renewal.
The Orthodox Union (OU) is the largest Orthodox Jewish organization in the United States. Founded in 1898, the OU supports a network of synagogues, youth programs, Jewish and Religious Zionist advocacy programs, programs for the disabled, localized religious study programs, and international units. The OU maintains a kosher certification service, whose circled U symbol, is found on the labels of over 100,000,000 kosher commercial and consumer food products.
Position Summary:
The Denver NCSY High School director’s primary goal is to ensure there are amble opportunities for engagement of Denver’s Jewish high school teens through events and programs and build meaningful relationships and inspire Jewish teens in their Judaism.
The different groups of teens include:
- -The DAT/East Side Yeshiva Day School (YDS) population
- -The DJDS community day school population
- -Jewish public-school students
- -Secular Private School students
Typical Duties and Responsibilities:
Teens are reached through a mix of the following programs, that will allow for meaningful, inspirational and impactful Jewish experiences:
- -Latte & Learn – weekly social/educational program on the East Side
- -3D – weekly social/educational program on the Southeast
- -DJDS (Denver Jewish Day School) JSU – weekly in school JSU club
- -DAT (Denver Academy of Torah) Lunch and Learn – weekly learning program at DAT during a lunch period
- -Chapter board meetings – regularly (as needed) meet with teen leaders to determine upcoming programming, assign responsibilities for upcoming programs, coordinate publicity
- -Social – Coordinate a monthly social event
- -Chessed Programs – coordinate periodic chessed programs
- -Shabbos Meals – host teens (and their families) monthly
- -Chapter Shabbatons – combo of 3-4 chapter shabbatons
- -Higher level learning – engage teens in higher level learning opportunities (chavursahs/chabruahs,I learn an earns etc)
- -Public School Engagement – coordinate opportunities to engage Denver area public school students including collaboration with JSC, Aish of the Rockies, The Jewish Experience, IAC etc
- -Coordinate with Denver Junior NCSY Director to transition 8th & 9th graders from middle school to high school NCSY programs.
Regional Programs
The City Director will be responsible for:
- Regional Shabbatons – attend and recruit to annual regional shabbaton(s).
- Regional Leadership Programs - attend and recruit to regional level leadership programs (ie JSU leadership conference; chapter board Shabbaton)
- The City Director will be involved in the planning and implementation of regional shabbatons and events.
Summer & National Programs
- Yarchei Kallah- recruit to National Yarchei Kallah (staff attendance rotates each year)
- JSU Presidents Conference – attend and recruit to 2 day conference in NJ
- TJJ – recruit teens to TJJ (summer 2023: 8 teens from Denver)
- Summer – identify and recruit candidates to other NCSY summer programs, especially YDS students on the large variety of NCSY summer programs.
Community Engagement
- Represent NCSY within the Denver community and ensure that NCSY programs and accomplishments are well communicated throughout the community.
- Maintain a presence and relationship with Denver donors and keep them engaged and informed with the ongoings in Denver NCSY.
- Work with regional management to build a parent/lay leader board.
- Maintain a presence in relevant East side shuls both for teens and fundraising (ie YI, TDK, Aish, EDOS)
- Build a relationship with relevant community partners and create opportunities to collaborate
- Work at least 1 day a week at the Jewish Colorado Office
- Meet at least 1/month at Aish of the Rockies
- Attend Denver community events
Professional Development
- Attend weekly staff meeting (by zoom)
- Attend weekly management meeting (by zoom)
- Attend development & Community Engagement check ins (1-2/month)
- Attend Staff Con – attend 2-3 day national staff conference
Sample Weekly Schedule:
Programming:
- 4 Weekly programs (Latte, 3D, DJDS & DAT)
- Monthly meeting with chapter board and DJDS board
- 1 Weekly more intensive learning program
- 1 rotating monthly special program (ie shabbos, chessed, regional program)
Meetings:
- Monday – weekly regional staff meeting
- Weekly regional management meeting
Admin Time:
- Data Entry
- Marketing & PR: getting marketing materials, distribution, social media posts, submitting post event articles for various PR opportunities
- Submitting receipts into Expensify
- Communications: Emails (often with follow up on non-programmatic requests and projects), check ins with teacher sponors, parents etc
Miscellaneous:
- Summer Info session
- Regional/National Event recruitment
- City Event planning and preparation
- Participation in Regional event coordination
Salary and Benefits:
Salary commensurate with experience.
We offer employee-sponsored healthcare, dental and vision plans.
Other benefits include:
- Paid sick days
- Paid vacation days
- Paid parental leave
- Paid Jewish and most Federal holidays
- Short Fridays to accommodate for the Sabbath
- Free life and disability insurance
- 403(b) retirement plan which the OU will contribute 5% of your wage towards retirement savings after you contribute at least 2% (match eligible after 3 years of continuous service)
