Community Relations Manager

POSITION DESCRIPTION:
The Community Relations Committee (CRC) is the public affairs and education arm of Memphis Jewish Federation. The CRC educates, advocates, and mobilizes the Memphis Jewish Community on behalf of domestic issues facing Jews at home, Israel and world Jewry. It reaches out to the broader Memphis community, including elected officials, law enforcement, other ethnic and religious groups, and the media, to inform, foster good relations and form coalitions on issues of mutual concern.

This position is designed to enhance the overall work of Memphis Jewish Federation’s Community Relations Council (CRC) to help ensure that it fulfills its role in representing and advocating for Jewish interests and in building relationships with diverse groups of individuals and organizations.

Duties in this role include protecting and defending the Jewish Community through education, relationship building, coalition work, government affairs and advocacy. This individual will staff committees of lay leaders focused on monitoring and addressing local, national and international events, determine actions needed to mitigate issues facing the Jewish Community via relationship building and education. This person will need to work with internal and external stakeholders.