BBYO Montreal, Regional Director

Inclusive of Summer Senior Teen Program Director role at Camp BB Montreal

Montreal, Quebec

  

BBYO, the world’s leading pluralistic Jewish teen movement, has been providing exceptional leadership programs and identity enrichment experiences for 100 years. We offer year-round activities in hundreds of local communities alongside inspiring world-wide travel experiences enabling teens to explore communal leadership, service, civics, Israel, and Jewish values, all while having fun, building a lifelong commitment to Jewish community, and forging friendships for life.

 

BBYO across Canada is growing rapidly and is now the largest Jewish teen platform nationally. BBYO has been shaping Jewish lives and inspiring vibrant Jewish community in Montreal for decades. As the Movement looks to its next 100 years, BBYO seeks to expand its reach of, and deepen its impact on, as many Jewish teens across the greater Montreal area as possible. An ever-growing stronger BBYO will ensure that Montreal’s Jewish teens have the skills, networks, and knowledge to lead Canadian, and global, Jewry in the future.

 

Over the last few years, a visionary team of community leaders and leading Jewish institutions have united around a bold vision to lift BBYO Montreal to new heights. In partnership with Federation CJA and Camp B’nai B’rith of Montreal, BBYO seeks a full-time Regional Director for Montreal excited to lead the region through its next evolution and eager to pursue its strategic goals. This individual will join a team of colleagues and volunteers in Montreal, and throughout Eastern Canada, to ensure that BBYO is providing a best-in-class experience for Jewish teens that’s meaningful, transformative, fun, sustainable, and professional.

 

This professional will also immerse themselves during the summers at Camp B’nai B’rith of Montreal as a Senior Teen Program Director to maximize continuity for those BBYO Montreal participants that spend the summer at Camp B’nai B’rith of Montreal, and to support year-round camper engagement while meaningfully reaching Jewish teens of all affiliations throughout the community throughout the year.

 

You:

You love working with teens. You’re creative, quick on your feet, and like your job to change every day. You’re not the kind of person who wants to sit behind a desk. You have an infectious personality and love getting others to join you in changing the world. You're a problem solver, skilled at juggling multiple priorities at once, and you enjoy being a part of a team.

 

We’re seeking a professional that is a self-starter, energetic, detail-oriented, organized and can work well in a team setting. Strong candidates are charismatic, have strong people skills, tested program experience, able to relate to teens and utilize their abilities to achieve BBYO’s mission of engaging more Jewish teens in more meaningful Jewish experiences.

 

The ideal candidate will possess a skill set that includes strong customer service skills, logical thinking, creative and professional writing, and event planning. You should be fearless about reaching out to anyone, and eager to take calculated programmatic risks that have often never been tested before. Candidates should be excited about an opportunity that goes beyond being only a youth-facing professional; we’re looking for someone who wants to build a brand, advocate for the Jewish community to embrace the voices and imaginations of its youth and run a highly professional affiliate of BBYO’s global movement. This is a role where you will grow your community building, programming, event planning, communications, fundraising, and business operations skills in a variety of ways.

 

Us:

We’re a global network of passionate professionals working to amplify Jewish teen life worldwide. We are the Jewish community’s largest and fastest growing pluralistic platform for reaching and inspiring Jewish teens, built on 100 years of storied history. We do this challenging and invigorating work through our partners in more than 725 local, teen-led chapters across more than 65 countries, at hundreds of weekend retreats during the school year and across a rapidly growing suite of global exchanges, campaigns, and movement initiatives all year-round. Over the summer, we run dozens of immersive experiences including extensive Israel travel, missions and community tours across six continents, and a myriad of leadership camps. Our team is strong, agile, creative, inclusive and every day is different by design. We are fast-paced, high-energy, and results-driven, and we enjoy working together almost as much as we believe in the mission we are chasing together.

 

What you’ll get to do as our Regional Director and Summer Senior Teen Program Director:

• Build, strengthen, and support AZA, BBG, and BBYO teen-led chapters throughout Montreal
• Mentor teens and supervise advisors to build strong, vibrant teen-led chapters across Montreal
• Work with teens to create impactful, fun and dynamic programs including large events and overnights
• Work directly with teens and advisors to expand BBYO’s membership and impact regionally
• Build, sustain, and evolve meaningful partnerships and networks in the community
• Build and grow a robust BBYO Connect program for Jewish teens in Grade 6 through Grade 8
• Partner with BBYO Eastern Canada team on Regional Conventions and Regional/Movement initiatives as part of a network across Hamilton, London, Montreal, Ottawa, and Toronto
• Regularly represent BBYO Montreal at global events and immersive experiences as calendar allows
• Develop and manage programming, oversee program budgets, and grow management skills
• Lead on building relationships with local schools and partner agencies to build brand visibility with uninvolved, under-affiliated, and unaffiliated Jewish teens
• Partake in Federation CJA professional development experiences as calendar allows
• Serve as part of the Senior Program Team at Camp BB Montreal during the summer
• Implement a series of year-round programs for BB Montreal teen camper engagement
• Promote and recruit for summer BBYO/BB Montreal Israel Tours supported with Root One scholarships

 

What you’ll learn as our Regional Director and Summer Senior Teen Program Director:

• An array of non-profit skills including budgeting, membership, marketing, sales, human resources, and event planning
• How to track and analyze business metrics, negotiate contracts, and build partnerships
• How to work with a global team and across organizational and geographical boundaries
• Relationship building as you network with and travel to other BBYO communities
• How to build meaningful, mutually beneficial community partnerships with agencies that share similar values
• Supervisory skills as you manage a team of colleagues, teens, and volunteers
• Professionalism and the ability to inspire and influence others to action

 

Role Requirements:

• 2-5 years of work experience; (i.e., teen/community programming, event operations, etc.)
• A bachelor’s degree or higher
• Experience with youth or teens is preferred; experience leading teams or projects is preferred
• Ownership of a vehicle is not required, but a valid driver’s license is needed for this position
• Ability to travel as needed and to staff Camp B’nai B’rith of Montreal and/or BBYO International summer experiences, BBYO International Convention (every February), BBYO Staff Conference and other opportunities as relevant
• Ability to work non-traditional hours (nights and weekends) when teens are available
• Fluency in writing and speaking French is highly encouraged; Hebrew, Russian, and other languages are helpful

 

This position will report to the Community Director for BBYO Eastern Canada on a day-to-day basis and a portfolio-specific project manager within the Camp BB Montreal team. This position is one role with all goals, expectations, and desired metrics interwoven and aligned for simplicity, clarity, and efficiency. 

 

Compensation will be commensurate based on experience within an initial $62,500 and $77,500 range. BBYO provides generous vacation time and sick time, paid time off on secular and Jewish holidays, as well as excellent opportunities for ongoing professional development. This is a role with long-term career trajectory and awesome opportunities to collaborate with colleagues on projects across Canada, throughout North America, and around the world. The position will be built and supported to maintain a flexible work environment to help foster your preferred work-life blend.