Camp Isaiah After School Director

Camp Isaiah After School Director 

Camp Isaiah After School, powered by Temple Isaiah 

Title: Director 

Reports to: Director of K-12 Education & Engagement 

Position Type: Regular Full Time, 12-month, Exempt Employee

Compensation Range: $77,500 to $81,600 

Start Date: February 15, 2026 

To apply, please send a cover letter and resume to [email protected]. We will review all applications received through January 20, 2026 and then on a rolling basis until the position is filled. 

Position Overview 

We are Temple Isaiah, your home at the intersection of tradition and innovation. We aspire to be a place where every member feels embraced; where the pursuit of justice is temple-wide and built on Jewish values; where Jewish learning is lifelong and makes tradition relevant; and where ritual is inspiring, forms community and connections to the Divine. 

Camp Isaiah After School (CIAS) is a joyful place for children to play and learn. We offer the services of a premium after school program with a full, experiential Jewish learning curriculum. Supported by the Jewish After School Accelerator (JASA), this program is child-centered and rooted in Jewish values. 

We seek an energetic educator and entrepreneurial leader who can help us make the blueprints of our new camp-style program a reality and is ready to hit the ground running to grow and build out Camp Isaiah After School. 

You are creative, innovative, and thrive in a position where you have a range of responsibilities. You can move easily from painting with kindergarteners to problem-solving transportation. You love children and partnering with their parents to help them grow and thrive Jewishly. You have special talents which you enjoy sharing with young people. And you love leading a team to make this all happen. 

The Camp Isaiah After School Director will be the face of our program and will be responsible for growing this exciting new program at Temple Isaiah. The job includes a range of responsibilities from family engagement, marketing, and operations to teaching and managing the teaching team. 

The categories of responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following: 

Family Relationship Management 

• Serves as the main point of contact for Camp Isaiah After School. 
• Manages enrollment and student forms. 
• Responsible for daily class updates and weekly newsletters to CIAS families. 
• Communicates with parents during work hours by phone, email, and/or in-person meetings about their children's experience. 

Operations Management 

• Maintains program licensing requirements in coordination with the Temple’s Executive Director and Director of Early Childhood Education and Engagement. 
• Implements all health and safety protocols daily. 
• Manages budget, spending, and grant reporting. 
• Oversees classroom material supplies and healthy snack options. 
• Liaises with outside vendors related to CIAS operations. 
• Maintains good relationships with partner elementary schools in west Los Angeles. 

Marketing & Recruitment 

• Recruits new families. 
• Leads tours for new families and other interested partners. 
• Establishes a marketing approach for the promotion of the program and distributes information through email, social media, print media and neighborhood businesses. 
• Attends PTA meetings, school sponsored events, and other local community events, and organizes special events, to promote the program and enrollment. 

Teaching and Education Leadership 

• In our first year (August 2026-May 2027), the Director is evenly divided between administration and teaching. In subsequent years and depending on enrollment, the role will have more administrative than teaching responsibilities. 
• Cultivates a positive, hardworking, supportive culture among staff. 
• Recruits, hires, and trains CIAS teachers and interns. 
• Plans and leads annual Teacher Training and weekly staff meetings. 
• Collaborates with the leadership of Temple Isaiah, writ-large, and especially our highly successful Temple Isaiah Preschool and Religious School. 
• Collaborates with other Temple Isaiah staff, lay leadership and members. 
• Supports teachers with lesson implementation and classroom behavior management. (CIAS curriculum is fully developed with a wide range of implementation possibilities through our partners at JASA.) 

Qualifications 

• Commitment to Temple Isaiah’s Code of Ethics. 
• Entrepreneurial spirit! Creative thinker! And a sense of humor! 
• Energized by working with and for children and their families. 
• Highly organized and adept at creating and maintain systems. 
• Bachelor’s degree in Education, Psychology, Child Development, or a related field. 
• 1-3 years experience in a Jewish educational setting with children, ideally aged 4 to 10 yrs old. 
• 1-3 years experience in experiential education settings, such as after school or summer camp. 
• Some business or nonprofit program administration experience. 
• Some supervisory or managerial experience. 

Benefits 

Temple Isaiah offers generous benefits including sick and vacation time, health insurance, 403B, Health Care and Dependent Care FSA. Membership at Temple Isaiah is also included as a benefit. 

*Offer is contingent on cleared background check*