Congregational Administrator

Machar – Congregational Administrator – Job Posting

Machar is the Washington, D.C. area's Secular Humanistic Jewish congregation, with a membership of over 90 family units and a Sunday school with seven grades. Our members live in D.C., Maryland, and Virginia. Now more than 40 years old, Machar includes many interfaith and diverse families. For more information see www.machar.org.

Machar is seeking a Congregational Administrator who is organized, personable, energetic, responsible, and detail-oriented. The position is permanent and part time (approximately 20-25 hours per week). Position may be paid on an hourly basis or a fixed monthly amount, and pay will be commensurate with candidate’s administrative support and bookkeeping experience.

The position is available before the end of June 2023.

Job Responsibilities Include

• Maintenance of member information in ShulCloud (congregational management system), maintain paper-based files (including from home)
• Responding to inquiries from members and potential members
• Overseeing communications, including regular email blasts, calendar coordination, website updates
• Working with the Rabbi, the School Director, Board, committees, volunteers, and other congregations
• Helping plan and organize holiday commemorations and events
• Overseeing day-to-day operations of the congregation
• Serving as Machar’s public face with potential members and with congregations within our international network
• Attend monthly Board meetings (currently held virtually)
• Bookkeeping and financial reporting using QuickBooks, ADP, and ShulCloud, including:
  • tracking and reporting income and expenses
  • payroll processing
  • prompt payments to vendors
  • production of financial and budgetary reports for board review

Other

• Machar provides the Administrator with a laptop computer.
• The Administrator will work primarily from home in the D.C./Maryland/Virginia area.
• Hours are reasonably flexible. Occasional weeks may be 30-hour weeks, with some 10-hour weeks. Some weekend and occasional evening work is necessary, including some attendance of school sessions and community events.

 Qualifications

• At least one year of administrative or office experience
• Experience with QuickBooks, Shulcloud (or other similar accounting or congregation management systems), and payroll processing
• Motivated self-starter and team player
• Strong writing, editing, and proofreading skills
• Ability to manage and accurately process basic financial transactions
• Solid interpersonal and organizational skills with strong attention to detail
• Strength in working independently, but also in collaboration with others, including small staff of congregational rabbi, teachers and school director; the Machar board; volunteer members and committees
• Familiarity and comfort with secular humanism and/or Secular Humanistic Judaism and its principles is a plus
• Previous work for a membership organizations, with volunteer boards or on fund raising projects are pluses

If interested in applying, please send your resume and a cover letter to president@machar.org. Thank you!

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Humanistic Jewish Cultural School Teachers

Machar, the Washington Congregation for Secular Humanistic Judaism, seeks enthusiastic teachers for our Jewish Cultural School.

We meet every other Sunday beginning September 18 and are based in Washington DC. Our children are encouraged to build positive Jewish identities and to become independent thinkers. They learn about Jewish culture, history, values and holidays – all from a secular perspective. Classes include experiential learning and it’s expected we will have a small number of field trips.

In-person JCS classes have met at a Jewish day school in northwest DC near 16th Street NW, and we plan to resume classes there again this year, under prudent, safe conditions of course. We're looking for excited, energetic teachers with some background in Judaism or Jewish Education.

The position pays $80/session. Classes are 1.5 hours (10AM – 11:30AM) plus a 30 minute teacher meeting before class (9:30AM – 10AM).

With Rabbi Jeremy Kridel as JCS Director, this will be another exciting year.

Please send your resume and a cover note to education@machar.org ASAP if you're interested!