T'ruah is seeking a rabbi or cantor who is an experienced community organizer to serve as our full-time National Rabbinic Organizer. The National Rabbinic Organizer will build our base, and educate and mobilize the rabbis and cantors in our network to lead on human rights issues in North America, Israel, and Palestine. This person will be supervised by and work closely with the Senior Director of Campaigns and Organizing on fully leveraging T’ruah’s power to advance campaigns for justice that make concrete changes in our world and alter the relations of power.

The ideal candidate is a strategic thinker, impactful organizer, and detail-oriented project manager, grounded in Jewish community and wisdom, with experience bringing collaborative projects from ideation to completion. The candidate has a record of building relationships and alliances with diverse partners to deliver tangible change and feels enthusiastic about representing T’ruah’s positions.

This position is an incredible opportunity for someone who wants to be part of a relational and effective team that values learning and growth, accountability, empathetic communication, and appreciating each other as human beings.

Who We Are

T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights brings the Torah’s ideals of human dignity, equality, and justice to life by empowering rabbis and cantors to be moral voices and to lead Jewish communities in advancing democracy and human rights for all people in the United States, Israel, and the occupied Palestinian territories. To learn more about our work, visit www.truah.org or find us @truahrabbis on Facebook and Instagram.

What You’ll Do

The National Rabbinic Organizer is responsible for the following:

• Base building and leadership development: Develop relationships with clergy nationwide, recruit them to participate in local and national campaign work, and develop their leadership through 1:1 meetings and engaging them in action-taking opportunities that move them up the leadership ladder. Help run the annual membership drive to increase the number of our members and regularly contribute to data maintenance about our clergy members.
• Community building: Strengthen community and communication among rabbis and cantors across different backgrounds, denominations, political views, and geographic locations using and building out T’ruah’s infrastructure, including local clusters, signal groups, and in person and online meet ups.
• Campaigns: Contribute to and take ownership of pieces of T’ruah’s issue campaigns on immigration, democracy and voting rights, mass incarceration, and workers rights. Plan strategic educational moments and action opportunities where there is a key role for Jewish clergy. Contribute to rapid-response moments of grasstops advocacy, such as writing recommendations to offices on Capitol Hill. Work collaboratively within the programs team to plan and execute programming and across the organization to share information, capture data, and communicate with all relevant colleagues and partners before, during, and after.
• Coalition participation/partnership: Serve as primary staff person on designated coalitions, building relationships with partner organizations, strategically developing T’ruah’s unique role to advance a campaign within a coalition. Serve as a thought partner to the program team and executive office on these coalitions and T’ruah’s role.
• Program-related communications and writing: Draft, edit, and produce written content for email and social media, talking points for clergy, and copy for various online advocacy tactics, including petitions and targeted actions.

Who You Are & Keys to Success

To be successful in this job, you have rabbinic or cantorial ordination and you are or have most of the following:

• Community organizing experience: You have demonstrated success working on issue-based organizing campaigns for 3+ years, preferably with members of the Jewish community. You demonstrate integrity, acting in line with your, and the organization’s, values.
• A reliable, detail-oriented, collaborative project manager: You have a successful track record of taking a project from idea to fruition. You have a demonstrated track record of closely collaborating with colleagues across departments and position levels, shepherding the team to accomplish a collective project.
• Keen emotional intelligence: You are self-aware and attuned to others, have a keen emotional and social intelligence, and demonstrate humility. You view your work as being part of the whole and know that it is integral to the team’s effectiveness and organizational successes.
• A relationship builder: You have a demonstrated track record of building authentic relationships with stakeholders inside and outside the organization. You demonstrate appropriate use of self in professional contexts and elicit similar vulnerability in others. You have recruited for, worked with, and understand how to support and manage volunteer committees.
• An adept communicator: You are a reliable organizational representative in coalition meetings and public gatherings, speaking clearly on behalf of the organization and advocating for/with community members. You skillfully facilitate public conversations, trainings and/or educational opportunities. Your writing is clear and concise and you can adapt copy to fit the needs of a specific platform.
• Torah knowledge and application: You are knowledgeable about Jewish content, and able to use text, Jewish tradition, and Jewish wisdom to illuminate or shed light on contemporary issues.
• Ability to manage a high volume of work with efficiency: You create systems to manage projects and tasks. You’re able to take initiative, juggle competing demands, and prioritize without sacrificing quality. You propose solutions to challenges and proactively ask for help.
• Demonstrated commitment to equity and racial justice: You are proactive about considering how mostly white organizations like T’ruah are welcoming to diverse constituents, and specifically Jewish clergy of color, considering how to reach out and build relationships to create more spaces of belonging for marginalized members and would-be members over time, and how we show up in coalition spaces, following the lead of those most directly impacted.
• Enthusiastic about representing all of T’ruah’s mission, campaigns, and positions: This includes our domestic issues — immigration justice, democracy and voting rights, worker justice, mass incarceration, racial justice, and antisemitism — as well as our work on Israel and Palestine — a pursuit of human rights for Israelis and Palestinians, an end to the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza and that resolves the status of Jerusalem and its residents, and the future of Israel as a Jewish democratic state side-by-side with a State of Palestine.

Systemic inequities in hiring have caused many women, people of color, and LGBTQ+ people to apply to jobs only if they meet 100% of the qualifications. If you don’t have all of the qualifications listed above but are extremely organized, passionate about our mission, and believe you have applicable and transferable skills from other industries, we encourage you to apply for this job. We’d love to hear from you. In your cover letter, be sure to explicitly highlight how your experience, skills, and personal qualities have set you up to succeed in the role.

What Else You Should Know

Eligibility

You must be legally eligible to work in the United States.

Status

This is a salaried, exempt, full-time position (i.e., 40 hours per week)

Salary

The starting salary range for this full-time position is $90,000 - $100,000 per year

We set salary through a collaborative process using a standard rubric based on years of experience.

Benefits

Benefits include:

• T’ruah pays for 100% of the employee’s premium and 50% of one dependent’s premium on our recommended medical insurance plan
• Employer-covered basic life and AD&D insurance valued at $10,000
• Optional benefit plans available at employee expense: dental, vision, health savings account, health care flexible spending account, dependent care flexible spending account, supplemental life insurance, and supplemental AD&D insurance
• Automatic employer contributions of an amount equal to 3% of your salary to your 403(b) retirement account beginning one year after the date of hire – whether or not you make elective deferral contributions
• 15 vacation days a year in your first year of employment, increasing to 20 days a year at the start of your second year of employment
• 34 holidays a year, which includes Jewish and most Federal holidays, Summer Fridays, and a floating holiday
• Paid leave of up to 12 weeks for the birth or adoption of a child

Location

This is a remote position with preference given to those residing in the New York City, Washington, D.C., or San Francisco Bay Area metro regions. Those living in the New York City metro area will have our New York City office at their disposal if and when they choose to work from the office.

Travel

We expect you to have the ability to travel to occasional in-person meetings in various U.S. locations.

Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)

T’ruah is committed to DEI at every level of our organization, including our Board of Directors. For the past several years we have been actively working on becoming an antiracist organization. We have a set of organizational values reflecting this commitment.

Equal Opportunity Employer

T’ruah isn’t just an equal opportunity employer. We are actively seeking to build a diverse and inclusive team with a wide range of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. T’ruah does not discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, marital status, disability, personal appearance, family responsibility, political affiliation or any other status protected by applicable law. Women, transgender people, veterans and people of color are encouraged to apply.

Compliance with Eligibility Verification Laws

In compliance with U.S. federal law, all U.S. persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification document form upon hire.

Our Timeline

Applications will be accepted, and interviews will be conducted, on a rolling basis. Our ideal start date for this position is June 1, 2026, or as soon as possible.

How to Apply

Complete the application here, which includes submission of a cover letter and resume. Cover letters will be assessed as a writing sample and applications without a cover letter will not be considered. Due to a high volume of applicants, we may not be able to respond to everyone.