Position Overview

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced youth engagement professional to join a creative, collaborative team committed to building a thriving Jewish community of belonging. This role offers significant autonomy and strategic ownership to re-create, shape, pilot, and evolve youth engagement across the congregation. The Youth Engagement professional will design and lead innovative, youth/teen-centered models of Jewish connection, mentor teens and emerging leaders, and build sustainable systems that deepen participation, leadership, and belonging. We are seeking a visionary, relational leader who is energized by experimentation, collaboration, and long-term impact. With this role, we are looking to re-imagine what youth and teen programming looks like - we are hoping to engage in new ways, thinking outside the box of what youth group experiences have been in the past.

Our Community

We are the one Reform Jewish, and largest, congregation in Boulder County, creating meaning in our lives through a wide range of Jewish practices.

We strive to be a community of belonging, seeing people for who they are and where they are in their Jewish journeys. One of our core values is ensuring that our congregants are noticed, named, known, needed, and nurtured.

We believe individuals and families should have multiple gateways into Jewish life and learning, and we continue to experiment with programs that vary in content, cohort, format (family and peer-based), schedule, and intensity of involvement.

Our vision, which we frequently lean into and revisit, is grounded in Jewish values:

• G’milut Chasadim – We celebrate together and lift one another through acts of generosity and kindness

• B’tzelem Elohim – We honor the divine potential in every person

• Tzedek, Tzedek Tirdof – We pursue justice and work to repair the world

Key Priorities

• Develop and nurture strong, trusting relationships with and among youth and parents

• Design, test, and refine innovative models of high school youth engagement that respond to teen interests and needs

• Reimagine teen programming through thoughtful risk-taking, creativity, and flexibility

• Support Jewish identity development and leadership growth through experiential, relational learning

• Build inclusive teen communities and empower teens as co-creators and leaders, not just participants

• Partner with the Rabbi and Director of Lifelong Learning as strategic collaborators in shaping youth engagement and experiential learning 

• Work closely with the Director of Lifelong Learning as a thought partner to vision, plan, explore, and brainstorm new experiences for youth/teens including planning/executing school wide events

• Integrate camp-style, experiential approaches into educational and youth programs

• Promote Jewish summer camp, teen Israel programs & other Jewish youth experiences 

• Elevate teen voice within the congregation and help the broader community listen and respond

• Work as part of the professional staff and lifelong learning team to advance the congregation’s vision

What You’ll Own

This role holds both programmatic and strategic responsibility, balancing hands-on relationship-building with big-picture visioning and program development.

• Manage, grow, and re-imagine our three youth programs:

  • Tzofim (3rd–5th grade)

  • JYG/Junior Youth Group (6th–8th grade)

  • 9th–12th grade/BTY, with an emphasis on teen-led leadership and programming

• Create retreats, programs, events, out-reach gatherings for our youth

• Attend youth group events and oversee chaperones

• Support and teach madrichim (student teachers)

• Teach middle school and high school classes in the Prizma Sunday Youth Education Program

• Launch and support teen-led youth Shabbat experiences

• Plan and implement the Middle School Retreat

• Attend L’taken (Religious Action Center’s Social Justice trip for teens) in Washington, DC

• Help create, plan, execute school-wide programs

• Build Promote summer camp programs (local & national)

• Manage youth calendars, budgets, participation data, and social media presence

• Attend lifelong learning team meetings and staff meetings

• Serve as a Jewish role model within the community

What You Bring

• Strong Jewish background and deep passion for Jewish life

• Significant experience in youth programming, camp, informal education, and/or religious school settings

• Commitment to mentoring teens as educators, guides, and partners

• Ability to build relationships with youth, parents, and colleagues

• Comfort innovating, experimenting, and rethinking traditional models

• Strong organizational and communication skills

• Willingness to work collaboratively with others to brainstorm, vision, plan, and execute

• Fluency with technology and social media, and comfort engaging teens on their platforms

• Flexibility, creativity, and a healthy sense of humor

• Commitment to ongoing professional learning and reflective practice

What We Offer

• Salary: $50,000-$70,000 DOE

• Position Type: Full-time, in-person, with the opportunity to work from home one day per week

• Schedule: Hours vary week to week and include daytime and evening programming, Sunday hours during the school year, and occasional full weekends for retreats

Benefits include:

• Health and dental insurance

• Long-term and short-term disability

• Medical and family leave

• Retirement plan after one year of employment

• Paid vacation

• Professional development

This position is supervised by Karli Atwell, Director of Lifelong Learning.

How to Apply

Please send a resume and cover letter to:
**Karli Atwell
**ka@harhashem.org