Kehillah (Community) Coordinator (Fall 2025)
Job Summary
The Rashi School, Greater Boston’s Reform Jewish Independent School, serving students in grades Pre-K-8, seeks a Kehillah Coordinator for the 2025-2026 school year. Reporting to the Director of Jewish Learning and Life, the ideal candidate for this new position will take a joyful and creative approach to celebrating Jewish life and Jewish time. The person will have a special love of youth worship and song leading, as well as a talent for Jewish holiday curriculum development and implementation. The Kehillah Coordinator will work closely with the Director of Jewish Learning and Life to implement a collective vision for the Jewish journey of all Rashi students.
In our warm and inclusive community, children are appreciated for who they are as they learn and develop their identities. With the school’s foundation of rigorous academics and differentiated instruction and a mission rooted in social justice, we want our students to ask the tough questions—not just the who, what, where, but the how, why, and what can I do to fix it? Rashi graduates have the confidence to try new things and to fail forward. With kindness at their core, they become empowered learners, change agents, global Jewish citizens, and good friends.
Rashi’s Lower School uses a collaborative teaching model to promote students’ academic, social, and emotional growth by nurturing an environment that promotes risk taking, flexibility, adaptability, empathy, and resilience through collaborative teaching which models behaviors of the adults. We seek to employ faculty and staff with diverse backgrounds who model these traits and our core values for our students and are eager to support Rashi in fulfilling its mission.
Rashi’s Middle School seeks to promote students’ academic, social, and emotional growth by nurturing an environment that promotes risk taking, flexibility, adaptability, empathy, and resilience. We are looking for educators with a history of positive, caring student-teacher interactions, rich content expertise, and student-centered approaches to join a team of exceptional faculty who utilize a strength based approach to empower students to be their best selves in and out of the classroom. We seek to employ faculty and staff with diverse backgrounds who model our core values (respect, learning, community, spirit, and justice) for our students and are eager to support Rashi in fulfilling its mission.
Position Responsibilities
The portfolio of work of the Kehillah Coordinator will be fully realized based on the individual and collective strengths, desires, and availability of both the Kehillah Coordinator and the Director of Jewish Learning and Life. Responsibilities include:
- Plan and lead or co-lead all worship, including T’fillah for grades Pre-K through 2; Grade 3-5 Minyan; Middle School Minyan; and Kabbalat Shabbat;
- Help to build out Rashi’s Jewish holiday curriculum, and create and run programs to celebrate Jewish time throughout the school;
- Enhance Rashi’s “visible Jewish profile” with creative and professional looking bulletin boards and other visual displays;
- Teach two sections of Grade 5 Jewish Studies classes on Sefer Shemot (each section meets twice per week)
- Lead or support some Family Education programs with grade level teachers;
- Offer Jewish teaching support in Lower School classrooms, including prayer teaching in Grade 3 and curriculum enhancement work in various grades;
- Support the Social Justice Coordinator with Jewish content as needed;
- Have lunch and recess duty with most age groups
Personal Characteristics that will ensure success in this position:
- Collaborative
- Creative
- Analytical
- Highly organized
- Continuous learner
- Open to feedback
- Strong communicator
- Active listener
- Commitment to working in and fostering an inclusive community
- Belief in Rashi’s Mission and Core Values
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Jewish studies, education or related field required. Master’s degree or rabbinic or cantorial ordination preferred.
- Accomplished song leader and guitar player.
Physical Requirements:
- Able to sit, stand, type, twist, bend.
- Able to use telephone and computers.
- Able to lift 10-15 lbs.
How to apply:
Interested candidates should email a cover letter, resume, and professional references to [email protected].
Rashi is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Guided by our core values of justice, respect, learning, community, and spirit, and with social justice as a foundational cornerstone of our school, we are committed to building an inclusive community that honors and respects each individual, their varied identities, and their spirit. We seek to listen, learn, and grow together to ensure that we are a place in which all community members can thrive. We welcome applicants of all backgrounds, including age, race, color, national origin, ancestry, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, pregnancy, disability, mental disorder, familial status, veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected characteristic as established by law.