Job Offer – JCU Program and Operations Manager

 

JCU Program and Operations Manager

 

About Jerusalem Culture Unlimited (JCU)

Jerusalem Culture Unlimited (JCU) works to raise the visibility, viability, and

sustainability of Jerusalem’s emerging and mid-level artists and arts organizations by

providing them with professional development tools and resources, including consulting,

convening, training and microgrants. JCU works to elevate artists and cultural

leadership from diverse religious and ethnic backgrounds across East and West

Jerusalem, as we believe that artists are essential in advancing more just and vibrant

societies. For more information, please visit our website at https://jcu.org.il/.

 

JCU Program and Operations Manager

• Report to JCU Director
• Strategic Thinking
  • Work as part of team with JCU Director and JCU Communications and Community Manager to articulate organizational vision, goals, and work plan, and envisioning how our programming and resources best serve our constituencies
• Financial Management
  • Analyze resources and translate into programmatic design and operations
  • Create and manage program specific budgets
  • Track income from donors
  • Track program and operational expenses, regularly update projected and actual budgets
  • With JCU Financial Manager, issue invoices, payments, reimbursements, and updating budgets accordingly
• Resource Development
  • Prepare Letters of Inquiry and grant applications
  • Support JCU Director in identifying new sources and opportunities for funding
  • Track grant opportunities
• Staff Management
  • Track larger goals and oversee work of 5 program consultants
  • Support program consultants
• Program Design and Management (co-manage with JCU Communications and Community Manager)
  • Work with the JCU team to envision, initiate, and support all aspects of JCU programs. Program Areas include: Ha-maalit 6 week Management Skills Workshop for Artists, Alumni Leadership, Consulting and Mentorship, East Jerusalem Programming, Israeli-Ethiopian Artists Programming.
  • Program design, oversight and evaluation

Undertaking any other reasonable duties as may be required.

 

 

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or relevant experience
• Good interpersonal and cross-cultural communication skills
• A people person who can take initiative, identify opportunities, work as part of a team as well as independently, positive attitude, sense of humor, open to working with all social sectors of Jerusalem
• Lives in Jerusalem

Experience and Skills:

• Experience in financial management, grants management, program management, staff management – Prioritized
• Knowledge of and comfort in Zoom, Microsoft Word, Excel, Google Calendar, Google Drive – required
• Experience in events planning – added advantage
• Experience in web development – added advantage
• Familiarity with the arts scene in Jerusalem, personal passion, and interest in working in arts and culture – added advantage
• Familiarity with arts and culture philanthropy, American Jewish philanthropy, and philanthropy in Israel – added advantage
• Languages:
  • High-level Hebrew and English – required
  • Native fluency in Hebrew and English – preferred
  • Arabic – added advantage

Scope, Salary, and Benefits:

• 100% Position (42 hours/week)
• Sunday-Thursday, at JCU’s office in Talpiot: Rivka 11, Jerusalem
• Some evenings required
• Salary: 8,000 NIS gross (bruto) monthly salary, depending on experience
• Paid holidays, vacation, sick days, transportation reimbursement, dmei havra’ah, and pension as required by law
• Start date: June 2023

JCU believes that diversity lies at the heart of what makes Jerusalem a vibrant and beautiful place and is an essential element of Jerusalem’s arts and culture ecosystem. We warmly encourage candidates of all backgrounds and abilities to apply.

To apply, please send your resume and brief cover letter to rivka@jcu.org.il. We will be reviewing applications on a rolling basis as they come in, and no later than May 25, 2023.