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About the Role
The Jewish Education Project seeks an Educational Associate to support the Yeshiva & Day Schools team. This role involves maintaining communication with schools, tracking substantial equivalency pathways, curating educational resources, and coordinating professional development. The ideal candidate is detail-oriented, communicative, and service-driven, contributing to the team's cohesive, efficient, and high-quality work.
Responsibilities
- Maintain regular communication with assigned schools, ensuring they are informed of deadlines, events, resources, and opportunities.
- Track the SE pathway each participating school is using, follow up to confirm selections and changes, and direct schools to the appropriate guidance, resources, and documentation.
- Flag schools that may need additional follow-up or support and bring recurring questions or areas of confusion to the project team.
- Support the curation of educational resources across curriculum areas for the YDS portal, ensuring content is culturally relevant, current, well-organized, and accessible to schools.
- Monitor whether and how schools are using the existing science resources on the YDS portal and encourage broader adoption.
- Assist in planning, scheduling, and coordinating professional development sessions, including invitations, registration, materials, and follow-up with schools.
- Track school participation in PD offerings and other team initiatives and follow up with schools that have not yet engaged.
- Support data collection and tracking efforts in coordination with the YDS Team’s Digital & Data Associate, and help maintain organized files, records, and documentation for the project.
- Assist in preparing materials for meetings, reports, and presentations as needed.
- Take on additional tasks as they arise as you grow into the role.
Requirements
- Experience in education, school engagement, project coordination, or operational support.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, Teams).
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple tasks, prioritize effectively, and meet deadlines.
- Ability to exercise sound judgment and maintain strict confidentiality when handling sensitive organizational, school, staff, and student information.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills; customer service oriented with professionalism in working with diverse school communities.
- Strong interpersonal and collaborative skills, with the ability to contribute to a collegial, team-oriented environment.
- Comfort working with data that requires accuracy and attention to detail across multiple systems.
- Ability to balance initiative with alignment to shared goals.
- A positive attitude.
- Demonstrating care and concern for the people around them.
- Leading with humble self-assurance and competence.
- Reliability, consistency, and accountability.
- Striving for excellence.
Skills
- Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, Teams)
- Salesforce or CRM platforms (a plus)
- Data management
- Communication
- Customer service
- Interpersonal skills
- Collaboration
Location
- New York, NY
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Remote
Experience Level
- Commensurate with experience
Salary/Compensations
- $68,000–$71,000
Benefits
- Four weeks paid time off
- Comprehensive health insurance
- 401k plan
- Paid family leave
- Commuter benefits
- Early close on Fridays for Shabbat
- Closed for most Jewish holidays
- Shortened summer hours
About the Company
- The Jewish Education Project is devoted to ensuring that Jewish education is in tune with the forces that impact our world and our communities in a changing environment.
- We believe that in a rapidly changing world, Jewish education must continually evolve to meet the needs of the Jewish community.
- The power of harnessing knowledge and curating ideas to inspire the various stakeholders who influence Jewish education is a vital component of this work.
- In this time of rising antisemitism, Jewish learning should support identity-building, creating confident, proud Jews who are well-equipped to respond to the challenges they will face.
- The yeshiva and day school ecosystem in New York City comprises hundreds of schools and a student population of over 150,000 and growing.
- We are committed to bringing the most creative solutions to a field that must remain relevant and meaningful in the lives of Jewish youth and their families today and tomorrow.
Equal Opportunity
- The Jewish Education Project is an equal opportunity employer.
- The Jewish Education Project aims to select, place and train the best qualified individuals based upon relevant factors such as work quality, attitude and experience, so as to provide equal employment opportunity for all our employees in compliance with applicable local, state, and federal laws and without regard to non-work related factors such as race, color, religion/creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other protected class.
- We encourage and support diversity and tolerance in our work.