BBYO Greater Vancouver, Associate Regional Director British Columbia
BBYO, the world’s leading pluralistic Jewish teen movement, has been providing exceptional leadership programs and identity enrichment experiences for 100 years. We offer year-round activities in hundreds of local communities alongside inspiring world-wide travel experiences enabling teens to explore communal leadership, service, civics, Israel education and Jewish values, all while having fun, building a lifelong commitment to Jewish community, and forging friendships for life.
BBYO across Canada is growing rapidly and is now the largest Jewish teen platform nationally. Throughout British Columbia, BBYO has been shaping Jewish lives and inspiring vibrant Jewish community for decades. As the Movement looks to its next 100 years, BBYO seeks to expand its engagement of and deepen its impact on as many Jewish teens across British Columbia as possible. An ever-growing stronger BBYO Greater Vancouver will ensure that Canada’s Jewish teens have the skills, networks, and knowledge to lead Canadian, and global, Jewry in the future.
Note: The BBYO region is currently named ‘Greater Vancouver’, but its impact area is the whole of British Columbia.
Over the last couple of years, an exciting team of Jewish community leaders and leading Jewish institutions, in partnership with generations of parents and alumni, have united around a bold vision to lift BBYO Greater Vancouver to new heights. BBYO is seeking a full-time Associate Regional Director excited to lead the region through its next evolution and eager to pursue its strategic goals. This individual will partner with a team of colleagues, volunteers, and teens across the region’s Jewish communal hubs, nurture a diverse network of stakeholders, and ensure that BBYO is providing a best-in-class experience for Jewish teens that’s meaningful, transformative, fun, and professional.
This BBYO Greater Vancouver team member will continue to strengthen a strategic partnership with the JCC of Greater Vancouver by leading on a myriad of engagement strategies year-round – on the JCC campus, in local public and private schools, at popular venues throughout the area, and via specialty experiences like the JCC Maccabi Games.
You
You love working with teens. You’re creative, quick on your feet, and like your job to change every day. You’re not the kind of person who wants to sit behind a desk. You have an infectious personality and love getting others to join you in changing the world. You're a problem solver, skilled at juggling multiple priorities at once, and you enjoy being a part of a team.
We’re seeking a professional that is a self-starter, energetic, detail-oriented, organized and can work well in a team setting. Strong candidates are charismatic, have strong people skills, tested program experience, able to relate to teens and utilize their abilities to achieve BBYO’s mission of engaging more Jewish teens in more meaningful Jewish experiences.
S/he will possess a skill set that includes strong customer service skills, logical thinking, creative and professional writing, and event planning. You should be fearless about reaching out to anyone, and eager to take calculated programmatic risks that have often never been tested before. Candidates should be excited about an opportunity that goes beyond being only a youth-facing professional; we’re looking for someone who wants to build a brand, advocate for the Jewish community to embrace the voices and imaginations of its youth and run a highly professional affiliate of BBYO’s global movement. This is a role where you will grow your community building, programming, event planning, communications, fundraising, and business operations skills in a variety of ways.
Us
We’re a global network of passionate professionals working to amplify Jewish teen life worldwide. We are the Jewish community’s largest and fastest growing pluralistic platform for reaching and inspiring Jewish teens, built on 100 years of storied history. We do this challenging and invigorating work through our partners in more than 725 local, teen-led chapters across more than 60 countries, at hundreds of weekend retreats during the school year and across a rapidly growing suite of global exchanges, campaigns and movement initiatives all year-round. Over the summer, we run dozens of immersive experiences including extensive Israel travel, missions and community tours across six continents, and a myriad of leadership camps. Our team is strong, agile, creative, inclusive and every day is different by design. We are fast-paced, high-energy, and results-driven, and we enjoy working together almost as much as we believe in the mission we are chasing together.
What you’ll get to do as our Associate Regional Director:
- Mentor and support teen leaders in developing strong, vibrant, and teen-led BBYO chapters throughout British Columbia.
- Attend weekly Regional Board meetings and provide coaching, guidance, and support to teen leadership.
- Help teens develop leadership skills, create meaningful programming, establish goals, and strengthen chapter culture.
- Support recruitment, engagement, and retention strategies to increase BBYO membership and impact across the province.
- Ensure chapters are working toward delivering consistent, high-quality teen-led programming.
- Plan, coordinate, and execute regional programs, chapter events, conventions, leadership training experiences, overnight programs, recruitment events, and community initiatives.
- Manage event logistics including budgets, registration systems, attendance tracking, payments, reimbursements, vendors, venues, and materials.
- Ensure all programs follow BBYO policies, risk management procedures, and safety standards.
- Recruit, train, and support volunteer Advisors across British Columbia.
- Provide Advisors with communication, resources, and guidance to strengthen chapter operations.
- Support chapter planning, calendars, recruitment strategies, and leadership transitions.
- Manage regional administrative responsibilities including budgets, spreadsheets, attendance records, membership tracking, payments, reports, and organizational metrics.
- Collaborate with the Regional Director on strategic planning, annual goals, budgeting, and regional growth initiatives.
- Support fundraising initiatives, sponsorship opportunities, and donor engagement efforts.
- Create newsletters, registration materials, presentations, reports, and other communications for regional and chapter activities.
- Build relationships with Jewish schools, synagogues, community organizations, the JCC, and other community partners.
- Support BBYO visibility and engagement strategies throughout British Columbia.
- Collaborate with the JCC on teen engagement initiatives, community events, volunteer opportunities, and specialty experiences.
- Represent BBYO professionally within the Jewish community and serve as an ambassador for the organization.
- Attend BBYO summer leadership experiences, Canadian Staff Conference, International Staff Conference, International Convention (IC) each February, and other BBYO opportunities as needed.
What You’ll Learn As Our Associate Regional Director
- A wide array of nonprofit skills including budgeting, membership growth, marketing, communications, event planning, volunteer management, fundraising, and organizational operations.
- How to develop and execute impactful youth programming.
- How to mentor and empower teens and volunteers through leadership development.
- How to build partnerships across a Jewish communal ecosystem.
- How to track and analyze organizational goals and engagement metrics.
- How to collaborate with a global team and work across organizational and geographic boundaries.
- Professional skills in community building, project management, and nonprofit leadership.
Role Requirements
- Passion for working with teens and supporting youth development.
- 1–3 years of experience working with teens, youth programs, community organizations, or nonprofit organizations preferred.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience.
- Experience leading teams, volunteers, or projects preferred.
- Strong communication, relationship-building, and organizational skills.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and projects simultaneously.
- Experience with program development, event planning, community engagement, or nonprofit operations.
- Comfortable managing budgets, administrative systems, and operational responsibilities.
- Skilled in professional writing, communication, and digital tools.
- Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively with a team.
- Valid driver’s license required.
- Ability to travel throughout British Columbia as needed.
- Ability to work flexible hours, including evenings, weekends, and non-traditional hours when teens are available.
- It would be great if you spoke Russian, Hebrew, French, or other languages.
