Milton Gottesman Jewish Day School of the Nation's Capital is an independent, community Jewish day school that currently offers a dual curriculum of General and Judaic studies for students in Pre-Kindergarten through Grade 8. The school is distinguished by its commitment to academic excellence, talented faculty, and learning that is joyful, engaging, experiential, and enduring. MILTON is a warm, vibrant, pluralistic Jewish day school where students,families, and faculty mirror the diversity of Jewish practice in the community. The school serves more than 475 students at our Kay and Robert Schattner Center Campuses - the beautiful South Campus for Early Elementary students in Grades PK-1, and the newly renovated and expanded North Campus for Elementary and Middle School students in Grades 2-8.

MILTON is looking for an Events and Community Relations Coordinator to help manage various events that are part of the school's life.

Job Description 

• Create and follow a special events checklist to ensure that all events are properly calendared and communicated to the various people who need to know or be involved
• Document special events and any debrief of the events to facilitate event coordination and logistics from year to year
• Work with school leadership to ensure that each event has a designated program lead
• Project manage and execute events with a focus on logistics, vendor coordination, transportation set up and take down, etc. in partnership with the program lead
• Support and coordinate all school events such as graduation, trivia night, share the nachas day, purim ball, etc. 
• Support director of HR in coordinating with the parent association  for logistics related to their needs and events
• Support and coordinate needs (set up, communication, food, etc.) for external meetings
• Order food for special events
• Serve as the point person for all rentals
• Serve as the point person and coordinator of the internal primary calendar, including ensuring that the Blackbaud online calendar is kept up to date and coordinating a calendering process each spring for the following school year
• Cover one or two lunch, recess, arrival, or dismissal duties a week

This position will require presence at most events, including Saturday night/Sunday and evening work, as needed.

MILTON is an all hands on deck environment where everyone pitches in to help.