Tikkun is hiring! You probably know someone who'd love this job!

From:magazine@tikkun.org To: Podesta@Law.Georgetown.Edu Date: 2015-11-17 18:07 Subject: Tikkun is hiring! You probably know someone who'd love this job!

Dear John, Tikkun is hiring a new managing editor and you probably know someone who'd love this job! Would you help us find the perfect candidate by sharing the news of our staff opening via email, social media, and word of mouth? The job posting is located at (tikkun.org/nextgen/job-opening-managing-editor), pasted below, and linked to from tikkun.org/jobs. ----- Job Opening: Managing Editor Tikkun magazine is looking for a managing editor to produce its award-winning print magazine and manage its lively online content, who is aligned with our goal of contributing to the healing and transforming the world. Ideally, you have prior editorial experience, but we would be open to hiring someone who has the intellectual sophistication without the journalistic training to fill this role. Many journalists are trained to be impartial and detached-but Tikkun is a magazine of ideas seeking the kind of global transformation that would save the earth from environmental destruction and overcome the ethos of selfishness and materialism that have caused so much suffering on our planet. We received the Best Magazine of the Year Award from the Religion Newswriters Association in both 2014 and 2015. Religion is only a small part of what we deal with in Tikkun–we also cover environmental issues, social theory, social movements, mass and elite culture, U.S. and global politics, Israel and Palestine, racism, sexism, the psychodynamics of class oppression, philosophy, and visioning an alternative future. We are seeking someone who can move effortlessly from reshaping a news story on the struggle for a living wage to editing a scholarly essay on feminist theology or on the meaning of gender to an essay seeking to unpack what it was about the Obama years that have given rise to Republican dominance in more states around the U.S. than in any time in the past hundred years, to an essay on what kind of spiritually is both soul-nourishing and contributing to the healing of the world rather than only to the narcissistic self-indulgence of capitalist consumers with spirituality as their new object of consumption to an essay on understanding why people get attracted to right-wing politics. To flourish here, you must be at once a big-picture person and a details person, a news maven and a media activist, a hard-nosed diplomat and an empathetic mentor. In this role you are responsible for producing all of Tikkun's editorial content from start to finish, from the initial story idea brainstorm to the meticulous proofing of the final layout. You work under the supervision of Tikkun's founder, Rabbi Michael Lerner, coordinate closely with Duke University Press (Tikkun's publisher), and manage multiple volunteers and interns (many of them here for only 3 month stints), but most of your own work is self-directed. Our staff is tiny, so the managing editor also serves as commissioning editor, developmental editor, copy-editor, web editor, art director, volunteer coordinator, and social media director. Does this sound exhilarating to you or do you know someone (a colleague, a former student, or a super-bright intellectual)? Do you have the energy, high-level organizational skills, and stellar efficiency necessary to manage this many projects and timelines at once, without missing a deadline? And are you passionately interested in contemporary activist struggles, progressive interfaith organizing, justice and trauma in Israel/Palestine, social theory, and liberatory forms of spirituality? If so, we can't wait to hear from you! Qualifications: - Experience as an editor in the publication or journalism industries or the skills to be an excellent editor even if never having been employed as one. - A clear understanding of the progressive intellectual and spiritual journalism space that Tikkun inhabits. - Excellent developmental editing, line editing, copy editing, proofing, research, fact-checking, and writing skills. - A creative visual imagination and sensitivity to the implications of image choices. - Ability to comprehend scholarly pieces of social theory and theology and to self-educate as necessary. - Ability to recruit, train, and closely manage a constantly shifting group of interns and volunteers. - Ability to triage and prioritize efficiently without becoming overwhelmed. - Superb organizational skills: without the savvy use of spreadsheets, timelines, calendar alerts, checklists, and file management systems, it is not possible to keep up with this job. - Tact and non-reactivity in conflict situations - An ability to nurture writers and recruit new writers for Tikkun. - Facility with Word, Photoshop, WordPress, and Adobe Acrobat. - Ability to face HTML without getting scared (no original coding required). - Familiarity with InDesign and with email blast systems like Salsa or Mailchimp is a plus. - A familiarity with Judaism and its issues is a plus, preferably in at least two of the following areas: Jewish religious practices, theology, debates about Israel and Palestine, the tension between Jewish particularism and universalism, Jewish - history, the Bible, Jewish spirituality/mysticism, Jewish literature, Jewish renewal, Jewish feminism, and/or Jewish studies in the universities-and a willingness to be associated with a magazine which is both pro-Israel and pro-Palestine, and hence gets critiqued by both sides in that struggle. Compensation: This is a full-time position in our Berkeley, California office with a salary of $42,000 to $50,000 in the first year, depending on experience. Staff at Tikkun receives excellent health and dental benefits and a generous number of paid vacation days and floating holidays. How to Apply: Please send your resume, a self-revealing cover letter, and two published writing samples as attachments to jobs.tikkun@gmail.com. In your cover letter, please explain why you are a good fit for this particular job and why you are drawn to the particular worldview and values of Tikkun. Tell us about your passions, intellectual interests, and experience with social change movements or thought. If we are interested in your application, we will contact you. No phone calls or drop-ins, please. About Tikkun: Tikkun is an award-winning quarterly magazine focused on politics, spirituality, and culture. Most recently it received the "Magazine of the Year: Overall Excellence in Religion Coverage" award from the Religion Newswriters Association in 2014 and again in 2015 and an Utne Independent Press Award for "Best Body/Spirit Coverage" in 2011. Tikkun was started as "the liberal and progressive alternative to Commentary magazine and the voices of conformism and materialism in the Jewish world" but it has evolved to also being an interfaith and secular humanist voice for a psycho-spiritually-informed progressive movement capable of building what we seek: The Caring Society-Caring for Each Other and Caring for the Earth. Our vehicle for this is our membership organization, the NSP-the interfaith and secular-humanist-welcoming Network of Spiritual Progressives, which seeks to build local Tikkun study/discussion groups and to take ideas from Tikkun into public space. Please read spiritualprogresives.org/covenant to get a feel for what the NSP is about, and why Tikkun is committed to building the NSP. Named after the Jewish concept of mending and transforming a fragmented world, Tikkun offers analysis and commentary that strive to bridge the cultural divide between religious and secular progressives. By bringing together voices from many disparate religious and secular humanist communities to talk about social transformation, political change, and the evolution of our religious traditions, Tikkun creates space for the emergence of a Religious Left to respond to the influence of the Religious Right and the damaging effects of global capitalism, while simultaneously critiquing the narrowly framed economistic, religiophobic, and reductionist views that sometimes prevail in liberal and progressive circles. The magazine, which began as a progressive Jewish publication thirty years ago, is now both Jewish and interfaith and provides intellectually rigorous, psychologically sophisticated, and unconventional critiques of politics, spirituality, social theory, and culture. Tikkun, which is published by Duke University Press, is especially known for its coverage of the Israel/Palestine conflict, social justice issues, and the environment. To learn more, visit tikkun.org and be sure to read our proposed Global Marshall Plan www.tikkun.org/gmp and our proposed ESRA the Environmental and Social Responsibility Amendment to the U.S. Constitution www.tikkun.org/esra . Tikkun's head editor and executive director, Rabbi Michael Lerner, also leads Beyt Tikkun, a Jewish Renewal synagogue in the San Francisco Bay area, and is a co-founder of the Network of Spiritual Progressives. Our tiny staff and interns, volunteers and editorial advisory board include people of diverse religious backgrounds, along with agnostics, fundamentalist atheists, and secular humanists. 2342 Shattuck Avenue, Suite 1200, Berkeley, CA 94704 Phone: 510-644-1200 | Fax: 510-644-1255 | www.tikkun.org Unsubscribe [ http://org.salsalabs.com/o/525/p/salsa/supporter/unsubscribe/public/?Email=Podesta@Law.Georgetown.Edu&email_blast_KEY=1333423 ]