Community Lead

World Jewish Relief provides life-saving and life-changing action to people in crisis around the world. We work with our trusted local partners to help people survive the consequences of conflict and disaster, to thrive and rebuild their lives. We deliver programmes using our expertise, with urgency to achieve maximum and sustainable impact for those within and beyond our community. We are seeking a Community Lead to establish and lead World Jewish Relief''s approach to engagement across Jewish communal life in the UK and beyond. This is a new and pivotal role with a remit to significantly increase World Jewish Relief''s visibility, relevance, influence and sustained engagement across the breadth of the Jewish community. You will develop the strategy, identify priority audiences and institutions, and build senior relationships and partnerships that connect more people with our mission. Synagogues, schools and established communal organisations will form an important backbone of this work, alongside universities and student bodies, youth movements, cultural and heritage institutions, professional and special-interest networks, regional communities, community leaders and other places where Jewish life and identity are expressed. You should have: Demonstrable experience representing an organisation credibly with senior, influential and diverse external stakeholders. Evidence of creating sustained organisational partnerships from initial relationship-building. Strong knowledge ..... full job details .....