Compensation: $22–$28 per hour, commensurate with experience. This temporary role averages 20 hours per week during the program year and full-time during the summer season.

The Role

Bring your creativity and digital savvy to the URJ’s Israel Experiences team! In this temporary role, you will help share the excitement of Yallah! Israel and Heller High through engaging marketing, social media, and communications. You will craft stories, capture visuals, and support recruitment and brand visibility, helping teens and families experience the magic of our programs.

What You Will Do

Program Year Responsibilities (~20 hours per week)

Draft and format marketing emails, newsletters, and promotional communications for prospective families.

Support content creation to advance recruitment campaigns, program promotion, and brand storytelling.

Monitor social media engagement, track performance metrics, and compile analytics reports.

Provide general administrative support for recruitment and growth initiatives.

Summer Responsibilities (Full-Time)

Collaborate with summer staff in Israel and Poland to gather photos, testimonials, and program highlights for marketing.

Prepare and send weekly emails to group trip families, including Shabbat messages and blog updates.

Create special event communications, such as milestone moments (e.g., reaching Masada).

Participate in trip group parents’ WhatsApp groups to collect additional content for blogs or reflections.

Develop and execute social media content, including graphics, captions, stories, and short-form video across Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook.

Work with URJ Camps’ summer communications professionals to capture images, videos, and stories showcasing Israel experiences.

Support updates to marketing materials, website content, and promotional assets.

Provide general support for summer experiences as needed.

Who You Are

You are creative, organized, and mission driven. You thrive in fast-paced environments and are energized by turning meaningful experiences into compelling digital stories. You bring strong judgment, attention to detail, and a collaborative spirit to your work.

Keys to Success

Compelling storyteller: You translate program moments into engaging content that resonates with teens and families.

Creative and organized: You generate fresh ideas and execute them with strong follow-through and attention to detail.

Digitally fluent: You understand social media trends, short-form video, and email marketing, and adapt content appropriately for each platform.

Independent and proactive: In a leave-coverage role, you step in confidently, manage priorities, and move projects forward with minimal supervision.

Collaborative partner: You build strong working relationships across teams and communicate effectively across time zones.

Mission-aligned communicator: You approach Israel and teen programming with professionalism, cultural sensitivity, and sound judgment.

Qualifications

Strong writing and editing skills for teen and family audiences.

Experience creating short-form video and digital content.

Proficiency with social media platforms and basic design tools such as Canva or similar platforms.

Strong organizational skills and ability to manage multiple deadlines.

Comfort working in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

Willingness to work evenings and weekends as needed, particularly during peak recruitment periods and summer.

Some travel to URJ camps may be required.

Interest in Jewish education, teen engagement, and Israel experiences preferred.

Bonus: Yallah! Israel (formerly NFTY in Israel), Heller High, or URJ Camp alum.

Application Process

Please apply online and include a resume and a one-page cover letter describing your interest in the role and how your experience aligns with the qualifications listed. We look forward to hearing from you!

About the union for reform judaism

Every team member at the Union for Reform Judaism (URJ) plays an important role in advancing our mission to create, connect, and inspire Jewish communities that work toward a more whole, just, and compassionate world. Grounded in our core values of shared humanity, justice, belonging, learning, evolving, and Jewish peoplehood, the URJ provides vision and leadership to help build strong Jewish communities and deepen connections to Jewish life.

As the largest Jewish movement in North America, the URJ partners with more than 850 congregations and operates 14 residential camps and the Religious Action Center in Washington, D.C. Through youth engagement, camping, leadership development, learning, and social justice initiatives, we support communities in creating vibrant, meaningful Jewish experiences. We strive to build communities where people across identities, generations, and lived experiences feel a deep sense of belonging. We are committed to confronting racism, ableism, homophobia, and other forms of oppression, and to strengthening communities that reflect the diversity of the Jewish people. Together with our congregations, camps, leaders, and partners, we are helping shape a future in which Judaism enables all people to experience peace and wholeness (shalom), justice and equity (tzedek), and belonging and joy (shayachut and simcha).

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The URJ strives to be a welcoming and inclusive environment that acknowledges diversity as a critical strength. We promote strenuous policies and practices of equal opportunity and diversity, equity, and inclusion. It is our objective to recruit, hire, and retain the most qualified individuals including those of any race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic or status protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. Our equal employment philosophy applies to all aspects of employment, including recruitment, compensation, benefits, training, promotions, transfers, job benefits, and terminations. The URJ encourages applications from women, people of color, persons with disabilities, individuals who identify as LGBTQIA+, and other often underrepresented groups.

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