The Lawrence Jewish Community Congregation (LJCC) is searching for a new youth education director to oversee its religious school and other youth educational programs.
The LJCC is an unaffiliated, lay-led community located near the University of Kansas with strong ties with KU’s Jewish Studies Program and with other local civic and religious organizations.
The LJCC’s mission is to provide an inclusive home for the local Jewish community as well as their Jewish-adjacent loved ones. In the recent past, the LJCC’s religious school has taken this spirit of inclusivity as its basis, helping children to cultivate positive Jewish identities via an arts-based curriculum and community engagement.
The LJCC is seeking applicants with backgrounds in Jewish education; experience supervising educators; fluency with Jewish prayer, practice, history and culture; and functional Hebrew literacy. The LJCC hopes to find an applicant who has a passion for experiential, inclusive, community-based learning, excels as a communicator across all settings and can provide steady yet creative leadership to their youth educational program. The position, the LJCC said, is best suited to a self-directed and enterprising administrator/educator excited to join in collaborative partnership with a diverse, intellectually and socially active community.
The position is a part-time, ongoing nine-month position (mid-August to mid-May) with a salary of $13,500.
Those interested should send a cover letter and resume to Dr. Lara Giordano, executive director of the LJCC, at . Applications will be considered on an ongoing basis, with the review of applications to begin on June 22.
