The Senior Program officer will oversee all aspects of AJWS' short-term volunteer-based service programs, including planning for long term growth, developing and maintaining effective relationships with community organizations and promoting the values and responsibilities of global citizenship within the greater organized Jewish community.

• Oversee day-to-day activities of short term programs which includes the admissions and selection of the domestic partnerships, providing significant support through all phases of the application, preparation, and programmatic process; and working closely with international non-governmental organizations in the pre-trip planning and implementation of the programs.
• Contribute to the creation and implementation of strategic plans for long-term positive growth of AJWS's short term volunteer service programs.
• Work cross-departmentally with education, development, advocacy, and external communications to advance the work of Group Service Programs in the organization.
• Support application and interview process through which AJWS strategically selects organizations and leaders in the Jewish community with which to collaborate. 
• Establish new partnerships and maintain existing relationships with synagogues, colleges, schools and other Jewish community organizations across North America.
• Identify strategic avenues to engage Jewish communities across the country in international service-learning projects. 
• Support partnering organizations' recruitment efforts by providing on-going outreach and recruitment assistance to engage communities; offer tools and tailored assistance in order to enable them to best meet their needs. 
• Utilize Spanish fluency in identifying potential host sites in Central and South America for short-term service programs; effectively build relationships with NGO-non government organizations.

• Must have a Bachelor's Degree in Education, Public Administration or a related field or foreign equivalent. 
• Must have three years of program management experience with volunteer-based programs.
• Must have a minimum of three years supervisory experience.
• Must have three years of experience with service-learning programs or social change efforts.
• Must have three years experience working in the Jewish community to organize volunteers for international service learning programs. 
• Must be fluent in written and spoken Spanish

Please mail resumes to opportunities@ajws.org with "Senior Program Officer" in the subject line.