Sixth & I is seeking an Associate Rabbi, reporting to the Senior Rabbi, Executive Director of Jewish Life, to join our Jewish Life team. With up to 2 years of post-seminary work experience, we invite you to jumpstart your career as part of our team creating a wide array of innovative and community-building endeavors designed for those in their 20s and 30s.
This position offers a flexible schedule with some remote work but must be located in the Washington, DC area to facilitate on-site events, pastoral work, and two in-office days per week.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
Education:
- Teach two nights per week utilizing a combination of existing Sixth & I curricula and new classes of your choosing that use Jewish wisdom to promote personal growth, community building, and a better world.
- Mentor up to ten Jewish Welcome Workshop students each year.
Shabbat and Holiday programming:
- Create and lead meaningful, accessible prayer experiences for one to two Friday night Shabbat service per month.
- Collaborate with Jewish Life Team to create innovative holiday programming.
- Participate in or lead High Holiday services as needed as determined by Jewish Life Team planning.
- Lead creative, low barrier to entry programs for select Jewish holidays as determined by Jewish Life Team planning.
- Co-lead Simchat Torah, Purim, and Shavuot programming with Sixth & I’s Senior Rabbi.
Community-building:
- Connect newcomers to Judaism--including those converting to Judaism, non-Jewish partners of Jews, and Jews not actively practicing--and to each other.
- Help build a connected and caring community for Sixth & I regulars.
Pastoral care:
- Meet with students enrolled in Sixth & I’s range of intensive and introductory-level classes, as well as other spiritual seekers in need of rabbinic support and guidance.
WHO YOU ARE:
- A self-starter. You demonstrate initiative and have a record of creating programs from scratch, proactively solving problems as they arise, and being communicative with others along the way.
- Radically welcoming. You create a safe space for a diversity of views and lived experiences. Though we encourage candidates from all denominations, you must permit mixed-sex seating in prayer services, accept the conversions of Sixth & I rabbis, and be willing to officiate at interfaith marriages for couples creating a Jewish household and LGBTQIA+ couples.
- A lifelong learner. You demonstrate fluency in Jewish texts, a deep love of teaching Torah, and a penchant for innovative learning modalities. You operate with a growth mindset and seek to understand different perspectives.
- Adaptable. You’re dynamic and engaging to a crowd on the bimah and approachable and compassionate one on one with community members seeking support. You’re both vulnerable and prophetic at Yom Kippur and silly and risqué at Purim.
- A team player. You are receptive to feedback and demonstrate care and concern for Sixth & I’s organizational reputation in your approach to work. You thrive in collaborative, team-oriented environments and know how to engage others to work together towards a common goal.
SALARY & BENEFITS:
- Salary range: $105,000 - $120,000 dependent on post-seminary work experience
- FLSA Status: Exempt
- Benefits: Sixth & I has a competitive benefits package that includes Parsonage, Health, Vision and Dental Insurance, Paid Vacation and Sick Leave, Retirement Savings w/ Matching Program, Pre-tax Transit Benefit, Paid Holidays, Parental Leave, Sabbatical Leave, and more. In addition to regular vacation time and summer Fridays, our office is closed the week of July 4th and between Christmas and New Year’s, as well as for select Jewish holidays.
HOW TO APPLY:
We will be accepting applications on a rolling basis. To apply, please submit the following materials to [email protected] with your name and “Associate Rabbi” in the subject line. No phone calls or emails please.
- Resume and cover letter
- Summary of your two favorite classes you have taught, plus any accompanying videos, class outlines, and text studies for each of them,
- Video of you giving a sermon (previously live recording in front of people preferred)
- Video or voice recording of you singing a niggun or tune you would teach to a group of newer-to-Judaism folks in their 20s and 30s
Anticipated hiring timeline:
- Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis until Friday, May 30.
- Candidates will be contacted if there is an opportunity to be interviewed by Wednesday, June 4.
- There will be three rounds of interviews for this position:
- First round virtual interviews
- Second round virtual interviews
- Finalist in-person interviews at Sixth & I
- The anticipated start date for this position is flexible but will be no later than Tuesday, September 2.
Sixth & I is an equal employment opportunity employer. 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 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.
WHAT IS SIXTH & I?
Sixth & I is a center for arts, entertainment, ideas, and Jewish life in Washington, DC. We inspire more meaningful and fulfilling lives through an unexpected mix of experiences that embrace the multi-faceted identities of those we serve. Housed within a revitalized historic synagogue dating back to 1908 in the heart of the Nation’s Capital, Sixth & I reimagines how culture, community, and Jewish life can enhance people’s everyday lives. Across wide-ranging, thought-provoking, and accessible experiences, we celebrate the unexpected intersections between culture and spirituality and, in so doing, expand our sense of what’s sacred.
Our Jewish programming offers dynamic ways for those in their 20s and 30s to explore life’s big questions through a Jewish framework and engage with Jewish values, ideas, and traditions on their own terms and without judgment. As a multi-denominational, non-membership, and radically welcoming spiritual home, Sixth & I works to foster community among people at a similar stage of life, figuring out what matters to them and who they want to be. Unlike a traditional synagogue, the role we play in people’s lives is both temporary—in that we serve them at one phase of their lives, as they’re commonly shaping their post-college and pre-parenthood identities—and also long-lasting in that we plant seeds for living Jewishly and in community in ways that we hope will stick with them long after their time at Sixth & I.