Program Officer

PROGRAM OFFICER

Job Description

About Us

The Gisela and Daniel Ades Foundation is a small Miami-based family foundation created in 2020 for the purpose of developing, implementing, and supporting programs focused on Jewish education, the Jewish community, Israel education, and Israel advocacy.  Its primary focus since inception has been the building and launching of the Jewish Leadership Academy, a new Jewish middle and high school aimed at the community's most academically able and ambitious students.

While grant-making occupies a small but meaningful part of the Foundation’s operation, the focus of its vision for the future is to create and implement new programs of its own that will further its philanthropic objectives.

The Position

The Foundation’s Program Officer will be its first full-time employee.  Reporting to the CEO, he or she will be responsible for the day-to-day operations of the Foundation including due diligence and follow-up relating to its grants, management of its website and social media, and the planning, execution, review, and assessment of all facets of its programs and events.  Its first major event is intended to be an adult education conference in Miami styled after the Aspen Ideas Festival, focused on issues of import to the Miami Jewish community.

The Program Officer is envisioned as a hybrid position with days alternating between remote work and office work based at the Jewish Leadership Academy’s Miami campus.  Forty hours per week are required, though times can be flexible.   

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree
• 3-5 years of experience in event planning and program management
• Ability to multi-task and prioritize responsibilities
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Self starter who holds themselves to high professional standards
• Strong understanding of the Jewish community and Jewish education
• Strong project management skills and demonstrated analytical capabilities
• Excellent communications skills, both written and verbal; excellent proofreading skills and attention to detail
• Ability to maintain a high level of confidentiality
• Ability to work independently, managing competing priorities   
• Proficient knowledge of Google Suite, database management, spreadsheet software, basic website editing, and social media platforms
• Desire to work as part of a small team in a fast-paced, highly collaborative environment
• Ability to appreciate and contribute to a work environment that values integrity, adaptability, reliability, collaboration, and a commitment to learning
• Ability to function and interact in a professional level capacity to sustain the mission, culture and best interests of the Foundation
• Healthy self confidence and genuine humility
• Strong sense of ethics and good sense of humor
• Deep desire to make the world a better place

Compensation

• $80k starting salary
• Strong benefits package including full health coverage for the employee
• Generous PTO including all Jewish holidays