Current Job Opportunities
Youth Education Programming Recruitment + Retention Coordinator | Part Time (15 hrs/week)
WHO WE ARE:
Located in Brookline, MA, BWC is a vibrant intergenerational, member-led, community organization. We are:
- A community and spiritual home for meaningful, connected, secular Jewish life
- A hub of social justice organizing rooted in Jewish values
- An arts and education center celebrating Yiddish, Jewish, and progressive culture
- A community where, whatever one’s Jewish background, whatever the faith, ethnic, or gender diversity of one’s family -- children and adults feel welcome and participate fully at all levels of the organization.
Our youth programming is centered around jewish cultural traditions rooted in social justice. Our core youth programs include our pre-k-7 Sunday School (Shule), our Teens Acting for Social Change program and our free tot drop-in family program (Circle Playtime).
POSITION SUMMARY:
The Recruitment and Retention Coordinator works collaboratively with a member-led Shule Recruitment Committee, Education Director and Executive Director to support our Youth Education Programming (Shule Pre-K-7 Sunday School program, Teens Acting for Social Change Program next 2 years (2025/26 school year, 2026/2027 school year). The coordinator is responsible for creating program growth and family retention strategies and plans for our youth programming in addition to facilitating the plans’ implementation. Our orientation to this role is that it is fundamentally an organizing project and the role will need to collaborate deeply with members of the Shule community and leverage existing networks. This position will run through August 2027 with the potential for extension based on continued funding.
This position will be supervised by the Executive Director and work in close collaboration with the Education Director.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE:
Community Outreach and Recruitment of New Families:
- Generate and iterate upon 3 year recruitment strategy to meet growth goals in partnership with members of Shule Recruitment Committee and Education director
- Maintain and grow list of prospective families in collaboration with staff and members
- Identify next steps for relationship building for prospective families and ensure next steps are implemented
- Bottom line outreach and recruitment events such as open houses, recruit potential families to attend children’s education related events (i.e Khanike/ Hannukah party, Purim party, Hey (5th grade) solidarity protest)
- Develop the leadership of current Shule parents to take on identifying and recruiting new families
- Grow and support existing Shule recruitment team to leverage existing Shule networks in order to identify new avenues for outreach and recruitment
- Support the development of outreach materials
- Create and implement communications plan for outreach
- Create sustainable systems that can be utilized for Shule recruitment and retention
- Attend occasional Sunday Shule, TASC, and Circle Playtime sessions to meet with parents and run recruitment + retention programs
Support Shule Family Retention:
- Create retention plans for new families during their first year of Shule and ensure steps are implemented
- Work with a team of parents and Education director to identify and implement action steps such as mentoring new families and creating 1-2 events to deepen their connection to the community
- Connect new and potential families to Shule and BWC community events
Key Qualifications:
- Minimum of 2 years experience in community-based or labor organizing;
- Excellent written and verbal communications skills
- Relational skills and patience
- Accountability to those they are working with and to meeting goals
- Demonstrated ability to create a strategic plan and meet targets
- Organized and self motivated with excellent follow through
- Investment in BWC’s approach to youth and children’s educational programming
- Ability to engage people around a shared goal and vision
- Experience with event planning
- Familiarity with Jewish community and working with interfaith, multi-racial and multicultural families
- Responsive and positive team player who enjoys versatility and constant new challenges
- Availability for 12-15 Shule Sundays in person in Brookline throughout the school year and occasional evenings, including open house events.
COMPENSATION:
This position will pay $30/ hour for 15 hours of work per week. This position will be eligible for vacation & leave benefits, but not for health & dental benefits.
TO APPLY:
Please submit cover letter and resume to jobs@circleboston.org
The position will remain open until filled with priority given to early applicants.
BWC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. People who identify as Jews and non-Jews of Color, multiracial, Sephardic, Mizrachi, trans, non-binary, lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer people, people with disabilities, and immigrants are strongly encouraged to apply.
Sunday School Teachers | 2026-2027
SUNDAY SCHOOL TEACHERS 2026-2027:
Sunday Teacher 2026-2027
Are you passionate about Jewish cultural identity and social justice? The Secular Jewish Cultural Sunday School of Boston Workers Circle teaches Jewish history, culture, and social justice traditions to young people in grades Pre-K through 7th grade.
Join our team of teachers!
BWC provides each teacher with a broad curriculum which includes key end of unit projects guided by an arts and project-based approach.
GRADES CURRENTLY HIRING:
- Beys (2nd grade) -- "People of the book" and Jewish stories/ Talmud Torah: love of learning
- Circle Playtime -- A monthly drop-in toddler play group for new families which meets 8 times a year. Great for someone interested in family education/ early childhood education.
- Zayen/ B’Mitzvah – Jewish identity, communal responsibility and supporting a research project
IDEAL CANDIDATES HAVE...
- Experience in supporting young people in a classroom, after-school, or summer camp working with elementary or middle school.
- Experience with community building and facilitating warm, inclusive, joyful and engaging environments that center relationships with kids
- Experience supporting multi-faith, multi-cultural and multi-racial families as well as gender diverse and neuro-diverse students
- Some knowledge of Jewish history and culture
- A demonstrated commitment to social justice
- Comfort with leading arts-based and emergent curriculum with support.
- Knowledge of Yiddish and or Ladino is a plus, though not required.
- Experience with community organizing is a plus, though not required.
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Design and teach 22 lessons using the BWC curriculum as a guide
- Plan and support students to successfully complete each end-of-unit projects
- Availability to teach twice monthly Sunday mornings from 10:30 am - 12:30 pm (plus an additional half hour of set-up and clean-up) in Brookline, MA, from September 20- June 7. Our site is T-accessible and wheelchair accessible.
- Build a warm, welcoming and engaged classroom community
- Attend 2-3 trainings/ teacher meetings throughout the year
- Manage administrative tasks such as attendance and communicating with families before and after sessions over email
- Work with Education Director to implement feedback and get support
COMPENSATION/BENEFITS:
- Starting salary is $100-$105 per session for 21 sessions a year ($20-$21 per hour for 5 hours a week) + professional development sessions + paid curriculum share. Commensurate with experience
- Discounted Yiddish and adult ed classes through the Boston Workers Circle (mix of in-person or online class choices) and through the National Workers Circle
- Professional Development opportunities
ABOUT THE BOSTON WORKERS CIRCLE (BWC):
The Boston Workers Circle, Arbeter Ring in Yiddish, is an organization founded over 120 years ago by Secular Yiddish-speaking Jewish immigrants as a progressive mutual aid society. Today, Boston Workers Circle Center for Jewish Culture and Social Justice (BWC) is a thriving, intergenerational, member-led community with 950 dues-paying members and 17 member-led committees, anchored by a team of 6 core staff. We are a spiritual home for secular Jewish life, a voice for progressive Jewish values and social change, and an arts and education center celebrating Yiddish and diasporic Jewish cultures.
TO APPLY:
Send your resume, cover letter and two references to the Education Director, Meira Soloff, meira@circleboston.org with the subject “Sunday School Teacher”. Applications are rolling with priority given to candidates who apply before June 14th, 2026 or until the position is filled. Any position listed on the website is still open and accepting applications.
BWC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. People who identify as Jews and non-Jews of Color, multiracial, Sephardic, Mizrachi, trans, non-binary, lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer people, people with disabilities, and immigrants are strongly encouraged to apply.
*Frequently cited statistics show that potential applicants who come from structurally marginalized groups are more likely to apply to jobs only if they meet 100% of the qualifications. Boston Workers Circle encourages you to break that statistic and to apply for stretch positions. No one ever meets 100% of the qualifications. We look forward to your application. Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis until we find the right candidate for the position.
BWC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. People who identify as Jews and non-Jews of Color, multiracial, Sephardic, Mizrachi, trans, non-binary, lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer people, people with disabilities, and immigrants are strongly encouraged to apply.
Frequently cited statistics show that potential applicants who come from structurally marginalized groups are more likely to apply to jobs only if they meet 100% of the qualifications. Boston Workers Circle encourages you to break that statistic and to apply for stretch positions. No one ever meets 100% of the qualifications. We look forward to your application. Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis until we find the right candidate for the position.