The Joint (JDC), the world’s leading Jewish humanitarian assistance organization, seeks to hire a strategic, and experienced International Missions Lead to manage and oversee JDC’s global mission programs within the Global Encounters team.

Position Summary

The International Missions Lead is a member of JDC’s Global Encounters team within the Fundraising Department. This role is responsible for the end-to-end design, execution, and continuous elevation of highly tailored international mission experiences that strengthen donor relationships and reflect the depth, dignity, and strategic priorities of JDC’s global work.

Each mission is custom-built for a specific donor, foundation, lay leader, or strategic partner. No two visits are alike. The International Missions Lead must understand donor psychology, cultivation strategy, and organizational priorities - and translate them into compelling, coherent, and purpose-driven experiences.

This role requires intellectual rigor, narrative sophistication, operational precision, and strong financial stewardship, alongside the ability to lead complex, multi‑stakeholder processes across geographies - ensuring excellence in both grand design and minute detail, anticipating risk and managing real‑time adjustments.

Nothing is too small to oversee. Nothing is too ambitious to envision.

Responsibilities and Ownership Areas

Bespoke Mission Strategy & Donor-Centered Design

• Partner with US-based fundraising colleagues to understand donor profiles, motivations, history, and cultivation goals.
• Design fully customized mission experiences aligned with relationship-building strategy while ensuring it reflects both humanitarian authenticity and fundraising intentionality.
• Lead end-to-end planning processes across headquarters, the U.S. office, and international field teams, working closely with senior professionals, regional directors, and leadership-level stakeholders.

Experience Architecture:

• Curate encounters that move visitors emotionally, inspire hope and action, or provide deep intellectual engagement grounded in data and policy.
• Ensure coherence between site visits, meetings, briefings, and debriefs.

Narrative Design & Speaker Preparation

• Design clear, compelling narrative arcs for each visit, ensuring a cohesive flow and defined purpose.
• Prepare beneficiaries, field professionals, and senior leaders to engage effectively and communicate with confidence.
• Help speakers distill their experiences into concise, audience-tailored narratives that resonate.
• Align all messaging with broader fundraising and engagement goals.
• Ensure ethical, dignified, and accurate representation of beneficiary stories.

Operational Excellence & Execution

• Oversee all logistical aspects of international missions.
• Develop comprehensive run-of-show documents and itineraries integrating program flow, content, timing, and operational detail.
• Coordinate travel, venues, materials, transportation, security considerations, and contingency planning.
• Develop and manage mission budgets aligned with fundraising strategy and organizational guidelines.
• Forecast costs and monitor expenditures throughout planning and execution.

Qualifications

• 7–10+ years of relevant experience in international development, fundraising, mission planning, and complex cross-border project leadership.
• Demonstrated ability to lead processes involving senior stakeholders; executives, leaders, donors, and global partner
• Proven experience designing structured programs or experiential learning journeys with end‑to‑end ownership from concept through execution.
• Excellent analytical, writing, and communication skills.
• High emotional intelligence and cultural fluency.
• Experience managing budgets, forecasting costs, and ensuring financial accountability within organizational frameworks.
• Full professional fluency in English and Hebrew – required. Additional languages are a strong advantage.
• Valid driver’s license and ability to drive - required.
• Willingness to travel internationally.
• Bachelor’s degree required (BA)

Additional details:

• Reports to: Global Encounters Director, Resource Development
• .Status: Full Time (100%
• )Location: Jerusalem, Israel (Hybrid

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Why work at

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