Shalom After School Site Manager & Lead Educator

Shalom After School, powered by Temple Shalom of Newton

Position Details

Title: After School Site Manager & Lead Educator

Reports to: Rabbi Jen Gubitz

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

Compensation Range: $68,000 to $75,000

Start Date: November 1, 2025

To apply, please send a cover letter and resume to [email protected]. We will review all applications received through October 6th, 2025 and then on a rolling basis until the position is filled. 

Position Overview

Shalom After School (SAS) is a joyful place for kids 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 ready to hit the ground running to grow and build out SAS, which was launched in fall of 2025. 

You are creative, innovative, and thrive in a position where you have a range of responsibilities. You can move easily from water coloring with kindergarteners to problem-solving bus transportation. You love kids and partnering with their parents to help them grow and thrive Jewishly. You may have attended or worked at a Jewish summer camp! You have hidden special talents - in sports, art, or music – which you would enjoy sharing with young people. And you love leading your own team to make this all happen. 

The Shalom After School Site Manager & Lead Educator is the outward face of the program and is responsible for growing this exciting new program at Temple Shalom. 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 point of contact for Shalom After School.
• Manages enrollment and student forms.
• Sends daily class updates and weekly newsletters to SAS families via Remini app.
• Communicates with parents during work hours by Remini (app), phone, email, and/or in-person meetings about their children's experience.

Operations Management

• Maintains program licensing requirements with the MA Department of Early Education and Care in coordination with the Temple Shalom Nursery School.
• Implements all health and safety protocols daily.
• Manages budget, spending, and grant reporting.
• Oversees classroom material supplies and healthy snack options. 
• Liaises with transportation service.
• Maintains good relationships with partner elementary schools in Newton, MA.

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, and print media. 
• Attends PTO meetings, school sponsored events, and other local community events, and organizes special events, in order to promote the program and enrollment.

Teaching and Education Leadership

• In our first year, the Site Manager and Lead Educator is evenly divided between administration and teaching. In coming years, the role will be more administrative. 

• Cultivates a positive, hardworking, supportive culture among staff.
• Recruits, hires, and trains SAS teachers and interns. At present, this is a team of two.
• Plans and leads annual Teacher Training and weekly staff meetings.
• Collaborates with leadership of our renowned Temple Shalom Nature Explore Nursery School to promote outdoor play in nature. 
• Collaborates with Temple Shalom to maintain the Shalom Vegetable Garden.
• Supports teachers with lesson implementation and classroom behavior management. (SAS curriculum is fully developed with a wide range of implementation possibilities through our partners at JASA.) 

Qualifications

• Commitment to Temple Shalom’s Vision and Values.
• Entrepreneurial spirit!
• Energized by working with and for children and their families.
• Highly organized and a natural sense of humor.
• Bachelor’s degree in Education, Psychology, Child Development, or a related field.
• 1-3 years experience as a Jewish educator of children, ideally aged 5 to 10 yrs old.
• 1-3 years experience in out of school settings, such as after school or summer camp. 
• Some business or nonprofit program administration experience. 
• Some supervisory or managerial experience. 

Benefits

Temple Shalom offers generous benefits including medical and dental insurance, HRA, FSA, and DCA. Membership at Temple Shalom is also included as a benefit.