Re: 2 Jobs at Tikkun--work for your highest ideals

this sounds interesting. i post it via the world systems network at colorado
university, and hope that highly motivated and qualified candidates
interested in an ecumenical liberation theology approach to judaism apply.

please visit the tikkun website at:

http://www.tikkun.org/

kindest regards
arno tausch

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Two Great But Difficult and Challenging Jobs at Tikkun
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If you know someone who would like to make their work life
connected to their highest values, tell them about these jobs:
1. Organizer for the Tikkun Community (working either from
         the S.F. Bay Area or from Washington, D.C.)
2. Michael Lerner's Personal Assistant and also Coordinator of 
         Beyt Tikkun synagogue (working from Berkeley, Ca.)
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JOB ONE

Organizer/ Public Educator for the Tikkun Community 
(working  either from 
      * the  S.F. Bay Area, mainly at our  new Berkeley office

, or from 

      *     Washington, D.C., (but in D.C.  you'd have to supply your own
      office or find some non-profit to donate the space or work
       from your home in D.C. area).

      This is a SENIOR position for someone who has top organizing
skills.  Salary and benefits competitive with best jobs in organizing,
and dependent on qualifications.
      
Tasks:
       1. Work with Congress and public opinion shapers to get the
Tikkun perspective on the Middle East into play as one of the
major options being considered and publicly debated.
       2. Create dozens of new chapters of the Tikkun Community
and work with potential leadership to give them the skills and
on-going supervision to make these chapters flourish.
       3. Promote and build The Tikkun Community into a major
force in American public life.
       4. Develop avenues of financial support for the Tikkun
Community
      5.  Represent the Tikkun Community and its ideas in
the media and in other public settings
     6. Work cooperatively with other Tikkun and Tikkun 
Community staff and help them be as effective as possible
      7. Do extensive travel throughout the U.S. energizing and
organizing The Tikkun Community
      8. Must have a car plus at least some computer skills. 
      
Like most serious organizing jobs, this is not a 9-5 commitment only,
but rather a job for someone who is passionately committed to
The Tikkun Community, to the politics on the Middle East outlined
in Michael Lerner's book Healing Israel/Palestine, and to the
worldview articulated in his book Spirit Matters. Don't bother to
apply till you've read these and can honestly represent yourself
as deeply into those perspectives--because much of the job
will require you to energetically and full-heartedly defend them
against the pervasive societal and individual cynicism and despair
that have undermined hope.  And be prepared to work days and
nights, and often a weekend night or Sunday during the day. Don't
even think about this job unless you are tireless, energetic, a 
self-starter, charming, very smart, strategic in your thinking,
efficient, great with people,  and driven by a desire to make
Tikkun and the Tikkun Community into a major force in American
life.  


JOB TWO:

MICHAEL'S ASSISTANT And Beyt Tikkun Coordinator

      $35 k/yr plus health care benefits and 3 weeks paid vacation
      Job is in Berkeley, California and you must have a driver's license.
           Must be someone who is comfortable with the approach
described in Michael's book Jewish Renewal, and must have
both spiritual and psychological sensitivity plus lots of charm and
smarts.  Person must know how to enter data into a data system
(File Maker Pro), have good computer skills and must be good at
talkiing on the phone. S/he must be very smart, quick, energetic,
sensitive to nuance, have some Jewish education and familiarity
with Tikkun magazine and Michael's book Spirit Matters, and 
must be willing to mix work that is dull and strenuous with 
work that requires lots of brain-power and practical wisdom.
      There are so many components to this job you could reasonably
argue it should be eight jobs. But we only have money for one
person--so he or she had better be terrific at many different levels.

Components:
I.  Coordinator of Beyt Tikkun Synagogue
         Work on various aspects of
 Beyt Tikkun, including but not restricted to the following:

           1. Call and speak to each member of Beyt Tikkun at least 3 
times a year. The task is to make each member feel that they are
 directly in touch with the Rabbi through the Coordinator.  
This means that part of the job must be done in the evenings,
 from 7-9 from the Assistant's home phone. 
To compensate for that, the Assistant will work 
2 hours less each day during the day that s/he is 
making those 2 hours of calls in the evening.

           2. Coordinate all activities of Beyt Tikkun and be the
 information hub for anyone who wishes to know what is happening
 or to get a message to the rabbi.
          3.  Supervise the posting of this information on the website
          4. Keep the phone answering machine up-to-date and 
respond to all phone calls.
          5. Supervise and coordinate all aspects of High Holidays,
 Passover, and Retreat, including site reservations, arrangements
with musicians, food, and sound equipment.
          6. Coordinate all volunteers and their activities
          7. Be in charge of set-up and clean-up on Friday nights
 (which doesn't mean having to do it, but having to be sure that it
 is done--which might also include hiring someone to do this) 
and making sure that all necessary supplies are purchased and 
available. 
          8. Attend all Beyt Tikkun services and Torah studies, attend
 meetings of the Coordinating Committee, members' meetings,
 and all scheduled holiday events including the retreat, high
 holidays and Passover.
         9.  Be the rabbis' eyes and ears into the community, and
 represent his perspective to it.
        10. Be in charge of mailings for members (which may be as
 frequently as 6 times a year) and of mailings to non-members
 (which may be as frequently as 3 times a year).

II. General Assistance in all of Michael's projects includiing: 
    
 Keeping Michael's Worklife and Desk and Phone Calls Organized

        Michael gets a huge amount of mail. It needs to be organized,
 responded to, and filed. Often Michael will fall behind on this, so
 he need someone who can answer letters.
 Similarly, Michael's assistant needs to follow up on many phone 
and email messages. He also needs someone who can distinguish
 between what is pressing, and what is not. And he needs someone
 to remind him of issues that are pressing. 
       Michael needs someone to know his schedule, keep his 
schedule, and remind him of engagements (both during the 
week and on the weekends) and make sure that all materials 
needed for those engagements have in fact arrived.
        Arranging Michael's Speaking Engagements
        Michael needs someone to work on arranging speaking
 engagements, by calling synagogues and churches and 
universities to get talks scheduled. This work includes negotiating 
with the potential sponsor to get the monies needed to make the 
trip worthwhile (monies are given to Tikkun, not to Michael), and 
that requires pushing people to seek cosponsors or wealthy i
ndividuals who can help finance the talk,  and to make sure that
 they will follow through on publicity and promotion. \
III. Conferences, retreats, training sessions.
         Michael needs someone who can set up the arrangements,
 work out all details, and help in the promotion of these events, and
 then to assist in registration, arranging of rooms, coordinating
 speakers, coordinating childcare, coordinating food, coordinating 
transportation, and providing warm welcome and support to
 speakers and other staff at these events. Michael needs someone
 who will attend these events (this year, at the minimum they will
 involve June 1-4th in Washington D.C. and August 12-17th in
 Santa Cruz). These events require materials to be printed, publicity, 
etc. 

IV. Sending mass mailings, entering data into the computer, and 
working with our data base.
          Michael needs someone who can do these normally dull and 
boring tasks, and do them with precision.

V. Coordinating Direct Mail.  Michael's assistant will be in charge
 of getting the texts and many subsequent changes in the texts of 
these letters into the hands of the mail house, getting the lists from
 list brokers, and checking at every stage in the process (often daily)
 to make sure that no glitches have developed (including glitches in
 the actual mailing).
          The assistant does not have to be an expert in FileMaker Pro, 
but must be prepared to quickly learn the basic necessary skills to
 enter data, and to provide Michael with reports (e.g. who and how 
many are the people we have in Dayton Ohio or Missoula Montana
 and who among them have given money to us), and to print out this
 information, and to be able to do letters of merging (that is, taking 
the names from a particular Select and having them printed in the 
letter as Dear "first name" etc.). This is a skill which can be learned,
 but which must be learned in the first two weeks in the job.

V. Leafletting, tabling and otherwise promoting TIKKUN and The 
Tikkun Community.
           The Assistant must be prepared to a. leaflet public events
 b. sit at a table at a public event or c. make phone calls for 
Tikkun....and in each case to strongly outreach for people to 
subscribe, buy books, join the Tikkun community, and donate money.
 Doing this kind of asking must be something that feels comfortable
 rather than a chore to be avoided. It is expected that the Assistant
 will do this at least one evening a week, except for a week in which
 Michael needs that Assistant to do this kind of thing at a weekend
 event. 

c. Michael is occupied with a wide variety of tasks, from writing 
books to organizing a national organization (Tikkun Community) to
 editing a magazine (Tikkun) to running Beyt Tikkun synagogue, his
 assistant has to be super-flexible, willing to let go of one task 
when another comes up,  and willing to report daily on
his/her progress on tasks and what remains to be done. 
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To Apply for Either Job: 

Think you can do all that is required for one of these jobs--and 
do it well? Tell us why.  Send a 
detailed personal letter to RabbiLerner@tikkun.org, making 
your best case for why you are the right person. Or send a video
tape of yourself answering this question orally to: 
Tikkun, 2107 Van Ness Ave, suite 302, San Francisco, Ca. 94109.






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